This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

When hearing of this, I expected another Invasion U.S.A of non stop action, but came up pretty short sheeted. I love Rutger and I liked him here and Simmons playing international terrorist, Malak Al Re Haeim, whatever, was even better here than in Runaway. This cool kick arse movie has a visual rawness, some scenes that tend to be upsetting, like seeing a family enter a cinema, where minutes later it becomes a obliterated pile of shrapnel. Terrorism is not a joke, and tends to be more a sensitive subject nowadays. As being a year underage to see WDOR, that scene could of had me running out the cinema, and in no way this film was a hit in Adelaide. Rutger plays bounty hunter, Nick Randall, the son of legendary hero Joshua Randall, from the t.v show, whose lifestyle is far from normal, as is his cleaning habits (check out his silverware and glasses and his houseboat, while cooking his girlfriend, brekkie). Benson's Robert Guiliamme as Nick Randall's (Hauer) old friend and agency buddy, enlists him to take down Malak, offering a big fee, of course, and when it becomes personal, we so much want Rutger to dispose of this piece of s..t in one unforgettable bit of dialogue, in unforgettable finale, the minutes lead up, compulsive viewing. I expected much more action from this, but one gets the feeling it chooses to be more than that, or truthfully, this is what unintentionally unfolded, but really that isn't much of a bad thing. I found it remarkably tame, as in the violence department, but still it has a lot of coolness to it. Rutger pulling into his car elevator, taking him up into his big impressive loft, while listening to a rock track, I still keep playing in my head from time to time, was one cool scene, as was him taking down a wanted roughneck, robbing a liquor store, that had Hauer trailing him, prior. The chase scene was cool, ending with another terrorist, making his suicidal choice. Rutger's Hauer's stereotypical line, he delivers to a fat Vietnam Vet, he confronts at home, who's been selling armament, detonators, unaware of the consequences, was a moment of "der Fred". Meanwhile the vet's trashy wife is making him some mystery meat. Interesting. Still WDOR equals an undemanding standard, that joins the Norris's, Bronson's, whatever, and I'll tell you, the onus is definitely not on the script. It's just how the film's materialized. Hauer as always is good, much a far cry, for his legendary "never live it down" role in The Hitcher prior. Yet still there's a coolness and rawness about the whole film that's also appealing, where I've got my viewing's worth, with this many times. But I will tell you, if you are seeking gore from this, keep walking. It must be hard for Simmons, showing wife, the Shannon Tweed who's the better thespian.

Unassuming 80s b-grade action joint that delivers on what counts. Helping largely is the charismatic performance of Rutger Hauser as a former CIA agent turned bounty hunter on the trail of international terrorist planting bombs around L.A, which is played with menacing glee by Gene Simmons. His slimy character is one real nasty piece of work. Hauser just reeks of coolness clutching at his pump-up shotgun and harmonica. There's a great final exchange of dialogue by Hasuer to Simmons' captive character. Director / co-writer Gary Sherman (""Vice Squad", "Dead & Buried" and "Death Line") keeps it tightly engaging with well-timed, punishing action set-pieces that pack a punch and devious plotting keeps one step ahead. The laid-back script throws up some macho, but memorable dialogues. What occurs isn't anything out of the ordinary and plot progression can become contrived, but the familiar, straight-forward nature has its excitement and the performances are suitably tailored. The support has some reliable faces in the shape of Jerry Hardin, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris and William Russ. Very 80's soundtrack too. But that's not a bad thing here. "I hate getting stabbed in the back."

You might understandably think that a movie concerning a bounty hunter (played by Rutger Hauer) clashing with an Arab terrorist (played by Gene Simmons) would be lively and entertaining. But the filmmakers somehow screwed up enough that the end results are anything but. Although the movie promises to be action-packed, the movie has hardly anything that you would consider an action sequence. In fact, if you don't count a solitary explosion that happens in the movie's first twenty minutes, you have to wait until almost AN HOUR has passed before the movie's first action sequence! And none of the few action sequences are worth the wait - I'm sure even the few people who saw this movie in a theater in 1986 thought the action was as boring as I thought. Possibly the lack of quality action was because of a low budget - the low budget is evident elsewhere all throughout, making the entire enterprise look like a police television show from the 1980s. But even if the budget had been higher, the movie would still have suffered from an inadequate script. For example, take the Gene Simmons character - he has almost no dialogue and we learn next to nothing about him, even though he's the chief bad guy! It's sub par efforts like this which explain why New Word Pictures went out of business a few years later.

An exciting movie if you're a Rutger Hauer fan. I enjoyed the story line. So it's predictable? I didn't predict seeing Gene Simmons as a middle eastern terrorist with a diabolical scheme to take over the world! Rutger fans know his acting talents aren't like Tom Cruise, but they're not like Steven Seagal either. This movie was entertaining and certainly ahead of it's time. Of course, we had no idea that the level of domestic terrorism demonstrated in this movie could happen. It was incomprehensible. So it fits the bill for me for excitement in it's continuity, dialog's, ubiquitous explosions, and kept me on the edge of my seat. I like action movies and this movie delivers action.