Redline
Redline, which was originally titled Deathline, has nothing to do with the underground street racing circuit. For a movie about that, you will have to go see Redline — the one that features a car on the front cover, instead of Rutger Hauer. Both movies feature lots of hot ladies in really tiny mini-skirts. But the Redline we want is a movie that sees Hauer and his partners Merrick (Dacascos, who is Russian this week) and Marina (Yvonne Scio) as a trio of smugglers in the Russia of the near future, running some sort of biotech you would assume becomes central to the plot at some point. It never does, but it does give us an early opportunity for Merrick and Marina to betray Hauer’s Wade and shoot him dead, presumably over the lack of judgment he demonstrates in choosing his outfit from the Glenn Fry “Smuggler’s Blues” collection at Sears. Merrick then gets to be doubly evil, thus justifying his growing of a goatee, by betraying Marina as well. The corpses are picked up by Russian police, and for some reason Special Prosecutor Vanya (Randall William Cook) decides to use top secret military technology to bring Wade back from the dead. Thus revived, Wade promptly sets out to do two things: see some boobs, and kill Merrick.
Warning: this review contains nudity, both from Mark Dacascos and Yvonne Scio, neither of whom can keep their shirt on for very long.
#1 by hman on May 15, 2008 - 10:36 am
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What is it about Dacascos that makes him the target of casting as different ethnicities? He’s been Chinese like three times (China Strike Force, Drive, Cradle 2 the Grave), Japanese twice (Crying Freeman, American Samurai), American Indian (Brotherhood of the Wolf), Russian, and probably a number of other ethnicities that I’m not aware of.