Saturday, March 1, 2008

Action Jackson (1988)

Policeman Jericho "Action" Jackson is framed for the murder of a businessman's wife and goes into hiding with the businessman's mistress, played by Vanity, who is a junkie and a singer. Vanity keeps insisting that she needs a fix, yet her withdrawal appears to be nothing more than needing to freshen her makeup and redo her poofy hairstyle.

They stay at a hotel run by Jackson's friend, a former pro boxer who looks like Bo Diddley and has a raspy cartoon character voice. Several of Carl Weather's co-stars in the Predator have roles in this film and Craig T. Nelson is the evil drug dealing businessman who's hair is the same color as his suit. Standard eighties action flick with not much going for it other than Weather's unbelievably cut abdominal muscles and a bad guy minion whose hair is right out of an eighties metal band.

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