My review was written in June 1990 after watching the movie on Vidmark video cassette.
Wings Hauser heads back to South Africa in the uneventful actoner, "Reason to Die", a direct-to-video title set in the fictional nation of Angelique (read: Angola).
Hauser's a skip tracer who's illogically sent back to Angelique from N. Y.'s Chelsea Hotel to capture a mad killer (Arnold Vosloo) who's preying on hookers.
Pointless action scenes ensue as Hauser protects lovely Anneline Kriel, who becomes the killer's next target after her photo is printed in a magazine alongside her expose on massage parlors. Main problem with the potboiler script is that Hauser doesn't investigate so much as keep bumping into the killer by accident.
Idiotic finale has Vosloo agreeing to play a variation on "The Most Dangerous Game" (man hunting man) with Hauser and Kriel instead of killing them outright.
Bright spot here is Kriel, a South African star who dressed up the James Ryan chopsocky hit "Kill and Kill Again" a decade ago. Pic exists in both R and unrated versions, presumably differing as to gore content.
Wings Hauser heads back to South Africa in the uneventful actoner, "Reason to Die", a direct-to-video title set in the fictional nation of Angelique (read: Angola).
Hauser's a skip tracer who's illogically sent back to Angelique from N. Y.'s Chelsea Hotel to capture a mad killer (Arnold Vosloo) who's preying on hookers.
Pointless action scenes ensue as Hauser protects lovely Anneline Kriel, who becomes the killer's next target after her photo is printed in a magazine alongside her expose on massage parlors. Main problem with the potboiler script is that Hauser doesn't investigate so much as keep bumping into the killer by accident.
Idiotic finale has Vosloo agreeing to play a variation on "The Most Dangerous Game" (man hunting man) with Hauser and Kriel instead of killing them outright.
Bright spot here is Kriel, a South African star who dressed up the James Ryan chopsocky hit "Kill and Kill Again" a decade ago. Pic exists in both R and unrated versions, presumably differing as to gore content.