Really Surprised!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This movie makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever. Errors in geography was bad enough, there were scenes that just had no point. At the very beginning we witness the heist of a massive diamond. The bad guys show up with an arsenal of weapons but use a black smoke and knock out gas to take down the crowd. Then they fire only one shot from a shotgun which is never explained. Did they kill someone? No. They just stole the big diamond and walked away.Next we see Mike Gold played by Brandon Lee meeting a German scientist in Cuba on the beach. The hammy acting and fake accents are horrid. The fight choreography is terrible. There is a fight in a room full of weapons (swords, axes, etc.) between Gold and Eckhardt, but they use hand combat and fight right out of the room and on to the roof. This is where both fall and the bad guy loses. Then a ninja attacks Gold from the bushes. Earlier in the Cuban desert... Gold and his girlfriend are attacked by a man riding a small white pony. Alissa played by Debi Monahan, picks up the attacker's sword and never uses it to defend herself. It is a weapon, when you are under attack and hunted by bad guys you keep those handy. Who sends their hit men out into the desert to look for people?Meanwhile two henchmen Mañuel and Sgt. Roberta, who work for the head bad guy Kalishnakov, provide the comedy relief. They even have a scene where Mañuel notices Sgt. Roberta is a female due to her wet t-shirt. They first appeared in the Cuban area but since a border was crossed during the movie they must have ended up in some other part of Cuba where they were forced to work in a Cuban diamond mine.At the point when that ninja attacked, I assumed this script was written by some three year old boy. I halfway expected the movie to end with his mother calling him in from his sandbox for his dinner. The plot is chaotic and random like some one was just pulling cards out of a hat with worn out action scenes written on them. I gave the movie 2 stars for Brandon Lee. He must have been desperate for an acting job to have landed in this turkey.

Laser Mission finds Brandon Lee as an independent contractor who occasionally works for the CIA, kind of like a private eye on retainer. And like the private eyes of the Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe mold, he earns the enmity of the regular CIA operatives the way those detectives were hated by the regular cops.Would that Laser Mission be only approaching the quality of a Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler work. What Brandon's mission is, is to get both scientist Ernest Borgnine and a big Hope Diamond like diamond out of the hands of some Russian and Cuban operatives working out of some nameless East African nation. These guys want to build the biggest laser weapon ever and start shooting down planes, missiles, anything that flies. Sad to say that times overtook Laser Mission, as it was coming out the Cold War was coming to an end. Not that this film was destined to be a classic in any event. The Russians and Cubans are some of the dumbest villains ever, you'd have to go back to the worst World War II era flag-wavers to find villains as dumb as these.Unless you like Brandon Lee's karate moves, skip this one.

some OK fight scenes, nothing special tho, some gawd-awful dialog, definitely B-movie grade action, direction, plot, and effects. Where it was set.. maybe Africa? by way of Russian Cuba? confusing setting, but it was actually shot in a desert somewhere and that bit looks good. Poor Brandon was saddled with some truly horrible dialog, the chick side-kick (Debi A. Monahan), was OK. And although her greatest assets were definitely the 2 in front, at least her dialog was better. The bumbling enemy pair who eventually help them were actually amusing. The evil bad-guy who just won't die was rather amusing after awhile too, how many times to they have to kill him before he'll stay dead? a 3. Not really worth seeing. There are only 3 reason to see this movie it is Brandon Lee's 1st, has Ernest Borgnine, and Debi A. Monahan trying desperately not to fall out of her dress (and unfortunately succeeding). On the other hand - you can get it for $1 so it was actually worth the price, but not a penny more.

Guns, corny scenes and cleavage. Absolutely one of the best camp action movies out there! So filled with clichés, bad acting and... blatant racism? Even if the main villains are white Nazis, about 90 percent of their henchmen are black men who suffer terrible deaths in close-up shots. (South-African contribution to the film?)Usually camp films are made with serious intent, but I got a strong feeling that this was made with a tongue in cheek. Then again, almost all action films are made that way, so it is hard to tell.Although the movie is great fun, it is best enjoyed with sufficient amounts of intoxicating beverages and salty snacks.