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STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsFrom the on-set of the film,with Stallone chasing a crook wearing girl's tights and skirt (and coat),to the preposterous climax,this appears to be the highlight of the film.This early action feature has the drawling stallion as undercover cop Deke De Silva who,along with his partner Fox (Billy Dee Williams),sets muggers up as bait on the streets of New York.Cut to London,New Years Eve.Lone terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) sets off the first of what are to be a series of bombs in a store.Cut back to New York,and De Silva and Fox are managing their operations fairly successfully.But they're loose cannons at the mercy of their captain,who all of a sudden transfers them to the anti-terrorist unit.It is here that they become embroiled in the mission to catch Wulfgar before he wages total destruction.As I stated,this is an early Stallone action flick.It's directed by Bruce Malmuth,who would later go on to helm the Steven Seagal flick Hard to Kill and the Dolph Lundgren flick Pentathlon.It features Stallone in the lead role as the hero,which he would go on to play to far more memorable effect (unless you regarded him as more of an anti-hero) one year later in the film First Blood,and Hauer as the villain,which he would,ironically,go on to play to more memorable effect one year later in Blade Runner.Both play their respective roles with the relish that would eventually lead to the greater things they would go on to acheive,Hauer especially who'd developed his menacing edge masterfully by the time he'd starred in The Hitcher.The film is fairly entertaining but unremarkable.***
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