Wow...the racism. The opening sequence features rebel big city American detective (Kriss Kfacing off against a Black young man with his knife to the throat of a woman in a police station. The man wants his 8 year old Black brother back, who is there. Our hero uses donuts to lure the young boy into reach and the THROWS the screaming 8 year old out of a window...but it is okay, because there are firefighters with a catch 8 stories down. It is almost all uphill from there after our hero (Kris Kristofferson) flies to a tropical island to find his seemingly 20 y.o. daughter who is shacking up with an island artist. The white people mostly party and screw and the black people die quite a bit. Daughter is eventually rescued. I only watched this to check out Jeff Meek and he was just okay as the island Lothario.
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DanielKing4 January 2003This starts off very badly, even while the credits are rolling: neon pink lettering over a holiday brochure shot of an exotic location. Things pick up slightly in the opening sequence where Kristofferson resolves a siege situation by throwing a small boy out of a 10th floor window. This gives some indication that while, on the whole, the script is not up to much, at least there is some evidence of an imagination at work.
What I mean is the plot does take some unexpected turns and never quite decides about the fate of Adam and what punishment he deserves. Some of the violence is quite graphic for a film which feels as if it was made for showing on television in the afternoon and the sex is also more than you would expect for a film of this nature. -
mpierce2029 March 2003Having suffered through this film (through no choice of my own), I only wish to say that it was ineptly directed, written, and performed. I know Kris Kristofferson is capable of some damn good work and therefore wonder what the hell happened here?
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anitaken15 February 2023The cop (Kris Kristofferson) has a difficult relationship with his headstrong teenage daughter -- a model who goes off to an exotic locale for a shoot. She does not return, and difficult Daddy Cop goes after her. He's the kind of guy who's not exactly trusting; one suspects that his job has made him that way. His brief does not extend to the exotic locale, where the local gendarme is in the pay of a rich hedonist who likes nothing better than to find attractive young girls who end up as sex partners for the hedonist himself (after all, he has to do quality control of the merchandise) and rich business =men looking for a good time and willing to pay for it. To this end, the hedonist has the assistance of a young painter whom he has rescued from jail and has set up to practice and sell his art, and incidentally to obtain beautiful young female artist's models for him. DaddyCop finds his wayward daughter living with this young artist, and, unable to persuade her to leave the island with him, he is preparing to return home when a young woman, whom the local cop swears has drowned, is found dead on the beach. Daddy Cop reads the evidence wrong; he thinks the artist committed the crime (not realizing that the artist, who has actually fallen for his daughter, is the reluctant procurer for the hedonist). When both the artist and the daughter disappear, Daddy Cop enlists some assistance from two of the locals with ties to dead young girls, and goes after them, breaking into the lavish house under the cover of an approaching hurricane. Daddy Cop and his stalwart henchmen prove to be every bit st ruthless as the bad guys, who are brutally dispatched. Yes, there is violence, but the hedonist is such slime, the violence is quite satisfactory, much like you enjoy seeing the old gunfighter in a Western mow down deserving bad guys. Daddy Cop actually tries to rescue the daughter's love interest from the hurrican, because his guilt is somewhat mitigated by his change of heart, but the rescue attempt is unsuccessful. There is a love interest for Daddy Cop, which is somewhat superfluous to the story, but the lovely Marisa Berenson is so enjoyable as the lady, plus she softens Daddy Cop, that her addition to the plot is quite acceptable, and her gentler, humorous touch brings Daddy Cop and headstrong daughter back together. Great art it ain't, but I found it quite enjoyable. A good slimy villain, an exotic locale, some peril from nature, and a tough, sexy badass of a cop go a long way with me.