So Walker offers Randall a bounty of two hundred and fifty thousand if he can bring Rahim down in a week with a fifty thousand dollar bonus if he brings him back alive. And as you can probably guess he succeeded in scragging all of them except for Rahim. days was assigned to kill a pocket of terrorists during a tour in the Middle East. A rouge with a bad attitude, he lives like all extreme badasses in industrial slum turned high-tech fortress, has only one friend to his name, a clueless girlfriend (Thirty-Something¿s Mel Harris in her feature debut), and only one goal in life which is to amass enough money to finally finish fixing his decrepit boat before sailing off into the sunset.Complicating things greatly is the sudden arrival one morning of Agent Walker (Robert Guillaume), Randall¿s former boss and once friend who tells him that bloodthirsty terrorist Malak Al Rahim (KISS legend Gene Simmons) has arrived in Los Angeles intent on mass death and destruction. Shall we? THE MOVIETaking its inspiration from the McQueen classic, Hauer plays loner Nick Randall, a former high level CIA operative turned bounty hunter who specializes in bring in the hardest of the hard and the toughest of the tough. And much like the man himself, the film has been virtually forgotten for nearly a decade until Anchor Bay issued in on DVD a few weeks ago. Taking his rising status that started in the wake of Ladyhawke, he followed that film with this his 1986 starring role in a loose remake of Steve McQueen¿s classic television series Wanted: Dead or Alive. The second is unfortunately for the nosedive that followed which allows him to give Christopher Lambert a run for his rental money as the hero in virtually dozens of low-rent direct to video genre programmers.But in between all this, in the mid eighties Hauer actually had a very brief moment in the sun as a top draw action hero in big budget studio releases. Thomas Howell terrorizer in 1986¿s slice of rural highway terror The Hitcher. The first is one of the greatest villains in cinema history thanks to his turn in Ridley Scott¿s 1982 Science Fiction masterpiece Blade Runner and a similarly landmark performance as C. When all is said and done, Danish import Rutger Hauer will probably be remembered for being two things.
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