Being directed by the legendary Ruggero Deodato is this film's main claim to fame. I'm not sure if I watched the fully uncut version (the gore scenes WERE there, but they seemed a bit too brief), but hey, even "Commando" had a scene in which a man's entire arm gets chopped off! Deodato does know how to stage his jungle sequences (the film is very beautifully photographed), but he's not equally proficient with the (somewhat irrelevant) Miami-based parts of the film. The whole plot of the film is put together in a jumbled kind of way, too. On the other hand, the acting is pretty good (except for a dreadful Karen Black) and the knockout soundtrack supplies tension in scenes that definitely need it. (**)
Review of Cut and Run
