Friday 6 April 2012

Stone Cold Bullshit



Stone Cold stands as one of the masterpieces of Bullshit Action Movies.

First off, you've got Brian Bosworth, an ex-professional American football star turned action hero, as the standard issue maverick, loose cannon cop sent under cover to bring the bad guys down...from the inside! The man certainly has screen presence, although he barely possesses the necessary charisma to pull off the role of 'action hero'. As for acting ability, you can tally that up to none.
Bosworth also has the privilege of being the gayest attired action hero, like, ever. His mullet is spectacular, edging out Van Damme's Hard Target mega-mullet by a permload and his unfortunate assortment of early nineties sweatbands, low cut t-shirts, speedos and earrings make him the hardest whoopsie on the action circuit.

Stone Cold's spin on the tired undercover cop plot is that he has to infiltrate a biker gang. Cue needless nudity, metal songs aplenty, a wanky hard rock guitar score, leather, profanity, violence, sluts, cool bikes, anarchy and other crazy shit. To add icing on the cake the gang is run by the legendary Lance Henriksen and his right hand man William Forsyth. If that's not worth the admission price, I don't know what is.

It's directed with pace and style by ex-A-Team stunt coordinator Craig R Baxley meaning that the punch ups are rowdy, the vehicle chases are messy, the explosions are in slow motion and they use up a metropolis load of bullet squibs in the process.
Filled with humour, tons of attitude and a big scale finale in the Mississippi State Capital Building, this is bullshit action to be cherished.

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