Guaranteed on Delivery
Guaranteed on Delivery
R | 08 October 2002 (USA)
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A lonely truck driver teams up with a retired security expert to derail a sophisticated white slave trafficking operation.

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Exoticalot

People are voting emotionally.

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Ogosmith

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Bluebell Alcock

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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Lidia Draper

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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The_Phantom_Projectionist

While Jalal Merhi would not officially put his career in action movies on hiatus 'til later that decade, 2001's GUARANTEED ON DELIVERY marks the last action vehicle he'd star in for about 15 years. It's understandable: Merhi was never one of my favorite karate guys, but he had done way better than this in his prime and seems to be running on fumes, here. Despite its cool cast and provocative title, this is a pretty boring action flick that, at best, is a poor version of THE TRANSPORTER.The story: When a security guard-turned-courier (Merhi) realizes that his cargo is actually a victim of human trafficking (Justine Priestly), both of them are hunted by the minions of the perpetrator (Olivier Gruner).There's few things that the film outright does wrong, but nothing it does otherwise ever really clicks. The story is almost completely devoid of surprises. The characters move the plot from point to point, but none of them really catch your attention – even Daddy David Carradine, in his role as Merhi's ex-employer, is forgotten as soon as he's off-screen. The look of the film is flat and the acting's exactly what you'd expect from a Merhi movies.The action's surprisingly minimal, coming from the guy whose movies used to be stuffed with adrenaline scenes. There's some shooting and some punching, but only about three scenes of gunfighting and fisticuffs, each. Carradine doesn't fight at all and neither does Olivier Gruner, leaving the brunt of the action scenes to be carried by Jalal. Though his on screen opponents include kickboxing star Luraina Undershute and the much-missed Darren Shahlavi, none of the fights are particularly good and they uniformly suffer from lax editing.Stay away from this one. Us action fans can do a lot better.

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utility_infielder

For a movie that boasts starring David Carradine, Olivier Gruner and Jalal Merhi... It's actually not that bad.Merhi delivers his best performance (which isn't saying much) and gives the best fight scenes he's ever had on screen.Carradine is sleep-walking through the role, but is entertaining nonetheless. The guy has a presence that most action star these days would beg to have. And Gruner, well, he is decent. He doesn't throw a single kick or punch in the flick - can the guy even fight? - but he's acceptable as a villain. Nothing special.The real star was the director, who managed to make this an entertaining film despite the low budget. Props to him for making a pre-"Taken" movie before "Taken" even existed. This is a solid action flick with some really good fights and a decent storyline. It's worth checking out if you're a fan of the genre. I remember renting this on VHS when it came out and being quite surprised with it. So much so that I tracked down a DVD copy years later and watch it every now and then. It truly is one of the better direct-to-video action flicks of the time. And that's saying something with Merhi in the lead.

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m4898

It's an action movie with the feel of a late 70's, or early 80's flick. There are no computer-generated special effects, no wire stunts, no grandiose mass destruction… much like early stuff from Chuck Norris, Van Damme, or Steven Seagal. Instead, it has equal parts realistic fighting, gun play and rugged American North-West road adventures. This movie came years before Jason Statham's "The Transporter", but the plots are eerily and suspiciously similar: Jalal Merhi stars as "Ray Stanton", an ex-cop, now working as security guard for a bank. When an attempted robbery leads to a violent gunfight that leaves Ray's wife dead, he loses his job and starts his own delivery service, transporting items that no other delivery services will touch. He soon finds that on one such run, the cargo is highly illegal, and his clients are international criminals. He also finds that they happen to also be responsible for his wife's death, years ago. Bent on revenge, Ray teams up with the retired boss from his old security guard company, to bring the murderers to justice. Olivier Gruner does not fight in this movie, but as a slick bad guy, he talks more than in all of his other movies combined… with his trademark European accent, of course. Justine Priestley does a memorable impression of Marilyn Monroe in a thong and a billowing white skirt, and David Carradine is his regular cool, professional self.

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Jakob_Karlsson

Ray Stanton (Jalal Merhi) works as a bank security guard. A robbery takes place, by Olivier Gruner and his gang, and the shootout leaves Ray's wife dead.Unable to get back to work he starts his own delivery service, GOD - Guaranteed On Delivery, and personally transports packages. In one delivery he discovers he is transport human cargo, a girl which have been kidnapped. By the same gang that robbed the bank of course...Adrian Kaminski (Gruner) and his gang start hunt them to get back the girl. Bad plot, bad acting, and very bad and slow fighting scenes makes this a very boring film, if it was not for Olivier Gruner. He plays the bad guy very well with very good acting. Sadly he does not throw a single kick in the whole movie. He was really needed in the fighting and action scenes, because the last 20 minutes which contain the most action was almost the worst part of the movie, so that speaks for it self.Some of these low budget, bad plot movies can be pretty good because of the action, but when the action is bad also, then the movie really takes a turn for the worse. Olivier Gruner once again show how lucky the people behind the movies are to have him, because he is the only reason to see this movie.

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