Thursday, October 26, 2017

THE DOUBLE O KID (1993) **


Corey Haim stars as a junior special agent who is given an assignment to drop off a package to one of his superiors.  During the exchange, Corey comes into possession of a vital code key that a group of evil hackers need to hold the world for ransom.  Soon, the bad guys come after him, and it’s up to Corey to save the world.

I’ll pretty much watch anything either of the Two Coreys are in, but even I have to admit that Haim looks pretty out of it in this movie.  He does come to life a bit when Nicole Eggert enters the fray as his love interest.  The two of them were paired more effectively later in the year in the much better Blown Away though. 

At least the villains are interesting.  It’s nice seeing Wallace Shawn chewing the scenery a bit as the leader of the hackers and Brigitte Nielsen gets an odd scene when she wears a cocktail dress in a Jacuzzi.  Oh, and if you ever wanted to see John Rhys-Davies murdered by a killer arcade game, here’s your chance. 

Sure, there are a handful of weird moments here, but most of it is more dumb than funny.  Like the scene where Corey is chased by a killer hockey team.  Because of this scene, it might make a good double feature with Prayer for the Rollerboys.  It’s not altogether unwatchable though.  There are plenty worse secret agent spoofs out there, that’s for sure. 

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