James Glickenhaus directs Christopher Walken, Michael Ironside and María Conchita Alonso in this action thriller where a Vietnam vet puts together a squad to take down a South American dictator.

A good film? No. Even to a beer a pizza standard? Get outta here. But there is always something extreme and bonkers happening to fill the runtime. A thousand Fillipino extras pretending to be Latinos! Mafiaso being dangled off skyscrapers! A thousand Fillipino extras being blown up and shot down in a fever dream of tax shelter carnage! Luis Gusman as a crack dealer giving a lesson on free market economics! Walken pretending to be Mossad for one scene and one scene only! An extra getting his hand caught in a tank rifle after lobbing a grendade down it! Vietnam death camp prologue! Hungover banter! Ironside with a ponytail! Top Gun with remote control fighter jets! María Conchita Alonso riding a donkey from Columbia to Brooklyn to a power ballad! McBain is a shit fudge of a movie with three great leads slumming it, it really doesn’t work and yet the constant strange mega violence of it overwhelms you.

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