FORMAT: DVD
Gary Daniels stars in this moderately entertaining PM Entertainment actioner as a Hong Kong cop who is sent to Los Angeles to bring back the drug kingpin (Byron Mann) who killed his brother. Naturally, the prisoner transfer goes awry and his quarry escapes. Everyone tells Gary to go back home, but he sticks around and teams up with a karate-kicking LA cop (Ken McLeod) to get his man(n).
Deadly Target was the one and only directorial effort from actress Charla Driver. She handles the fight scenes competently enough for the most part, and while there’s nothing revolutionary here, it’s quite satisfying overall. (Driver gives us the obligatory scene where there’s a shot of a conspicuously placed vase, and you just know it’s only a matter of time before it is smashed by a whirling leg kick in slow motion.) The car chases and explosions are rather over the top too, which is the norm for a PM flick. Unfortunately, Driver puts way too much concentration on the love story subplot between Daniels and a Chinese blackjack dealer (Susan Byun). These scenes are okay, but they only add to the already lengthy ninety-nine-minute running time.
The characters make so much about Gary being a cop from Hong Kong that it almost made me wonder if the script was originally supposed to star an Asian lead. Either way, I guess it didn’t matter where he was from. (Although I guess it would make sense for Gary to be English since Hong Kong was under British rule at the time.) All that really matters is that he kicks a bunch of dudes in the face and shoots a bunch of drug dealers, which, of course, he does. Because of that, I’d say Deadly Target is a reasonably enjoyable addition to Gary’s vast DTV filmography.
AKA: Fire Zone. AKA: Street War.
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