#deadly heroes

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Deadly Heroes (1993)

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Michael Pare shirtless torture in Deadly Heroes (1993)

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Japanese poster for Deadly Heroes (1993).

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Movie Review | Deadly Heroes (Golan, 1993)

I only learned this existed last week when I went to log Deadly Hero, a completely unrelated but similarly named movie, and saw this was directed by Menahem Golan. Obviously Golan is close to the hearts of many cinephiles due to his contributions to cinema history co-running Cannon Films. But I have some affection for him as a director, and love The Delta Force more than reason should dictate. As this seemingly had a similar premise, I was hoping it would bring some of the same thrills.

Alas this was not to be. This kinda sucks. None of the trigger happy verve Golan brought to that other movie or the similarly themed Operation Thunderbolt, nor his strengths with respect to location shooting are to be found here. This is pretty low rent and bereft of thrills aside from a bit at the end when he finally wakes up, and I have to assume that separating from his business partner and cousin Yoram Globus caused him to lose most of his mojo. Instead of shoot’ em up fun and Navy Seal antics, you get lame plastic toy guns and an off putting sexual harassment subplot.

If you still insist on watching this, I will say that Michael Pare is pretty good and has some nice chemistry with Claudette Mink as his wife. Billy Drago as the villain is reliably reptilian, although I wish more of his villainy was channeled into something more thrilling than being skeevy to Mink. Jan-Michael Vincent mostly squints his way through his scenes and disappears for like eighty percent of the movie. Gotta love that the picture of him they chose for the poster makes him look suspiciously like Drago. I guess there wasn’t room for all three leads. Pare at one point pretends to be Cuban, and at another point he and Vincent get matching disguises.

Anyway, I probably got what I deserved for not heeding the warnings of the 1.5 star ratings from everyone I follow on Letterboxd, but on the plus side, I got this off my watchlist much faster than usual. Normally something goes on there and I forget about it for an indefinite amount of time. But I actually watched this. I suffered so you don’t have to.

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