Deadly Force

1983

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 492 492

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Plot summary

Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.


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Wings Hauser as Stoney Cooper
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lost-in-limbo 5 / 10

"Dying is one thing, but pain is a whole other subject."

A customarily vanilla, but rather violent and tawdry action thriller joint with a colourfully explosive Wings Hauser performance as an ex-cop returning to Los Angeles to find the serial killer that murdered his friends' granddaughter. He's a rogue who believes the system doesn't work and would go about any way to get the job done ("Your crazy man!"). Because of this, he's not welcome by the local authorities, then there's the ex-wife and also the local criminals who he had a past with when he was a LA cop.

There's no surprises here, but it's well made in workman-like manner by director Paul Aaron ("A Force of One"). Fundamental is how you can describe the b-grade story, but it did somewhat change route in the back-end after what I thought was going to be your typical stalk and slash outing with a (ex-maverick) cop after a psycho serial killer. In away I probably would have preferred if stuck to that formula (something similar to Charles Bronson's "10 to Midnight"), then where it actually headed. Even the added love-interest with Joyce Ingalls's character felt like nothing more than padding. The narrative does have a scattered pattern going on, but everything is thinly examined when it comes to its finale. Pacing can be very uneven, but the action is physically tough and breakneck (as well as that pumping soundtrack)… but you end up wishing there were more extreme dynamics than what's produced. Also showing up in the cast is Paul Shenar, Al Ruscio, Lincoln Kilpatrick and Arlen Dean Snyder.

Middle-of-the-road entertainment.

"You leave L.A, I'll have your ass!"

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 5 / 10

Deadly Force gives you Wiiings.

"Deadly Force" is a thoroughly routine B cop movie from the 1980s, with thoroughly routine characters. This starts with our hero, Stoney Cooper (Wings Hauser), your standard-issue maverick cop character who has issues with such things as authority and procedures. Living in NYC, he returns to LA to help an old friend (Al Ruscio, "The Godfather Part III") when the latters' granddaughter is the latest victim of a serial killer. Upon his return to the City of Angels, he tries to start over with his fed-up estranged wife (Joyce Ingalls, "Paradise Alley"), and is hassled by his former commanding officer (Lincoln Kilpatrick, "The Omega Man").

One gets no points for connecting the dots in this patently predictable storyline. But, as cliched and unoriginal as this feature is, it entertains in basically adequate fashion. Even lacking style, its action sequences are basically decent enough; the director is Paul Aaron, who'd previously directed Chuck Norris in "A Force of One". (He must have liked titles using the word "force".) The supporting cast is fine - deep-voiced Paul Shenar is cast as a unsubtly menacing motivational speaker - but what really makes the difference is Wings. He'd been such a memorable villain in "Vice Squad" a year previous, and got boosted to star status here. He's not the ultra-macho mass of muscle one often sees in action movies, but he does have an amusing personality and the same kind of tenacity that served him so well when he played "Ramrod".

Familiar actors such as Ned Eisenberg ("The Burning") and Paul Benjamin ("Escape from Alcatraz") have small roles; 'Golden Girls' fans will have the delight of seeing Estelle Getty in a brief role near the beginning of "Deadly Force" as a live-wire cabbie.

The screenplay is credited to Ken Barnett, Robert Vincent O'Neil, and Barry Schneider; Sandy Howard was the producer. O'Neil and Howard were also veterans of "Vice Squad", so "Deadly Force" was a reunion of them and Hauser. The combination of talents here doesn't yield the same incendiary results, but if you adore 80s B cop flicks, you can definitely do worse than this one.

Five out of 10.

Reviewed by Vomitron_G 5 / 10

Wings Hauser is the man!

What we have here is a typical run-of-the-mill eighties crime/action/thriller from the somewhat lower budget regions. The plot involves a (very active) serial killer running amok in L.A. One of the apparently random victims, being killed at the very start of the movie, is the granddaughter of an ex-thief. Granddaddy then calls in the help of Stoney Jackson Cooper (Wings Hauser), a former hard-boiled cop from the L.A. police force who doesn't like playing by the rules. When he arrives in L.A., the authorities, local criminals as well as his (soon-to-be) ex-wife are not too happy with his return. But Stoney doesn't care. He's got a job to do and a promise to keep: track down the vile killer and put a stop to his activities.

The story bounces to the left & the right at an uneven pace, but still manages to be quite coherent and even turn in a twist at the start of the third act (albeit one you'll probably see coming). Wings Hauser is in top shape in this one and pretty much owns the movie. One scene has him relaxing in a bath tub, and then going after the killer butt-naked after the whole loft has been shot to pieces during the killer's surprise attack. Even a pretty decent but obviously very standard climax is added to the mix (Wings vs. the killer, after his true identity is exposed). Other forms of entertainment, aside from shooting & killing, are included also, like a soft-core sex-scene (Wings & Joyce Ingalls) and an obligatory car crash/explosion. Yes, "Deadly Force" does its best to play it right.

Sadly, one of the worst aspects of "Deadly Force" is the musical score. The main theme - if you can call it that - doesn't work at all. It's too rocky & funky and is used too often & inappropriately (even during the climactic fight & chase scene at the end). It gives the film a much sillier & dated vibe than it should have. A more gritty & tense analog synth score would have worked wonders, I'm sure. But in the end, "Deadly Force" is much more entertaining than it's poor rating on here would lead you to believe. And it's mainly thanks to Wings Hauser and a typical B-movie script that at least tries to make things work.

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