Well-known bladesmith Jack Crain made the knives in the movie, having also made the knives in Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988) and Commando (1985).
Albert:
Jackson, why did you have to bring me along in the first place?
Action Jackson:
You remind me of a old friend.
Albert:
Then why didn't you bring your old friend?
Action Jackson:
He's dead.
Albert:
Damn, man why did you have to tell me that?
When Carl Weathers and Vanity jump out of the hotel window to escape the police and onto the roof of his convertible parked in an alley, their impact reveals the mattresses inside the car covered with black cloth which comes undone at the rear window. You can also see the scaffolding at the bottom of the scene for the camera, also protected with a mattress.
UK cinema and video versions were cut by 9 secs to remove shots of a butterfly knife being twirled and a topless woman's stabbed body.
English
$7,000,000 (estimated)
$5,424,783 15 February 1988
$20,256,975
$20,256,975