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(1987)

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5/10
Heavener is in Hell
KnatLouie30 March 2005
This movie is about a country singer, whose wife gets brutally murdered by a gang of punks who also kidnap his daughter and try to sell her to pedophiles. He travels to the big city to get them and their criminal friends.

The lead character is played by David Heavener, who has also written, directed, produced AND wrote the soundtrack for this movie! Something tells me that he wore maybe just ONE hat too many. This movie is so full of clichés and long pointless scenes with him singing entire songs, or cars driving, etc, I sure was glad my remote had a fast forward-button! Frank Stallone and Paul L. Smith plays the two investigating officers on the case, one of them a health-fanatic who eats yogurt and wears glasses, and the other a disgusting slob who chows down burgers and runs like a mountain of lard. (You guess who's portraying which). But both of them are just as dirty as the hero, when it comes to investigating suspects. Holding the life-support tube when a shot thug is laying on the ground begging for his life isn't really good police-work. "Oh, he's as good as dead anyway." they just say.

The Punk leader is played by Robert Bjorklund, who hasn't done ANYTHING else in his movie-career. So sad. He kind of reminds me of a poor-mans David Keith with eye-shadow on.

One of the other punks in his gang looks like Director Tim Burton, which made me laugh every time he appeared. At one point the hero is being held up by him, and he says "Haha, I've counted your bullets, you have none left", and then walks towards him with a knife. Then the hero just shoots him down and says: "Boy can't count", it was hilarious.

The gang also has some punk-chicks with them, who don't like them at all and helps the hero. One of them looks like Madonna, she's really slutty.

I liked the gas station attendant, 'Gumby', who the punks mugged and poured gasoline down his pants. What a lovable nerd.

And the ending, man was it stupid, I haven't seen an ending so bad since 'Cyborg Cop'! The bad guy asks the hero to drop his weapon, and when he dropped it, the bad guy walked over and tried to pick it up! The hero goes on to kick him in the head and shoot him down. Made me laugh, but that probably wasn't the intention.

Conclusion: While this movie is FAR from being 'good', it made me laugh on numerous occasions, and Frank Stallone is always fun to watch, plus Paul L. Smith looked a lot like a sloppy mans Bud Spencer in this!
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5/10
Heavener fans (I assume they're out there) will want to check out the movie.
tarbosh2200020 June 2011
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Billy Ray Dalton is a simple family man and a "Cowboy of the modern day", to quote Tesla. He loves his rural lifestyle, he loves fried chicken, and he fully lives up to his cowboy persona, putting on live Western stunt shows during the day and pursuing his country music career at night. One day some middle-aged punks roll into town and decide to start harassing the town's gas station owner, Gumby (Patterson). When Dalton stands up for Gumby, the punks then murder Dalton's pregnant wife and kidnap his pre-pubescent daughter , Holly Lynn (Cicero) to sell into human trafficking and child porn. Must make sense by punk standards. Either that, or they really, really hate Gumby.

Dalton leaves the country and heads into the big, bad, mean and dangerous city streets of Hollywood. We then learn that Dalton is an ex-Green Beret and expert marksman, and he will stop at nothing to get revenge and save his daughter. Meanwhile, Inspectors Wainright (Smith) and Grady Purella (Stallone) (did Heavener come up with that name?) are following the case. The "funny" part is, Purella is a glasses-wearing, rulebook-citing, suit-wearing liberal college boy who loves yogurt and Wainright is an obese, rule-flouting, disgruntled, slovenly dude who loves nothing more than to chomp into the nearest burger. They're the original odd couple! With the help of Jesse (Mills), will Dalton emerge victorious, or will his plans and his musical career fall at the hands of the evil Washington (Bjorklund)? David Heavener wrote, directed, co-produced and stars in this "cowboy Death Wish" and makes the most of its rock-bottom budget. His buckskin fringed jacket is even more awesome than Steven Seagal's. And Heavener was first with that style. Frank Stallone shows his range as an actor - compare his role here with his character from Fear - totally different. None other than Fritz Matthews is credited with special effects, but he doesn't appear in the movie. Paul Smith as Wainright is a triumph, especially with lines like "leave the detective-ing to us".

Sure, the many scenes of Heavener singing may seem gratuitous - but who can argue with such gems as "This Honky's Gonna Honky Tonk Tonight"? Interestingly enough, the film seems to get more competent as it goes along - as this was Heavener's first directorial effort, perhaps he was learning quickly on the job.

An amazing highlight of - not the film itself- but the TransWorld VHS tape - is a TV commercial that runs before the movie. It's a "special TV offer" for the Outlaw Force soundtrack, available on cassette or LP! Remember when they used to advertise for 2-record sets on TV with a 1-800 number and it had a blue background? Call today for "David Heavener" at a certain P.O. Box in Marina del Rey, CA. Now you can have such songs as "I am the Fire" and the aforementioned Honky...right in your own home! What a great commercial! Heavener fans (I assume they're out there) will want to check out the movie and commercial so get the TransWorld tape!

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10/10
Amazing Guy! (Spoiler)
helfeleather3 May 2002
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This is an amazing story. One guy manages to defeat a whole army of tough, evil, sadistic perverts. They try all sorts of lethal weapons on him, and even hold his daughter hostage, but he wins in the end because he's a good honest country boy, and of course he uses more violence than the baddies
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