I COME IN PEACE! This very loud movie stars the amazing Dolph Lundgren, a hero hewn from the finest timber. He plays rule-breaking cop (aren't they all!) Jack Caine, a tough Texan lunatic who is after a narcotics gang called The White Boys. No, they ain't Nazis, they all have white collar jobs as a front for their crimes. Anyway, they steal a big pile of heroin from the FBI's own lockup, and the Feds take over the Police investigation. Caine gets a Fed as a new partner (Brian Benben) who tries to make him follow procedure etc. (just like all those other films right?). However, here's where it gets interesting...several of the White Boy soldiers are found slaughtered in a strange way. It turns out that they were killed by a razor sharp flying disc, similar to the one Predators use in THEIR movies! Also, bodies start turning up that have been pumped full of heroin, then had their endorphins extracted. Yes, you guessed it, an alien drug dealer is on the loose! This nice guy kills his victims with the smack, then sucks out the endorphins, which he then sells to addicts on his own planet. He extracts the gunk from the brains using a spiky thing strapped to his wrist...again just like Predator! (see the picture above). Caine, the Fed idiot and an alien cop named Azeck must stop the nasty Talec (dumb alien names!) before he brings his druggy pals to Earth and wipes us all out for our brain chemicals.
I loved this movie when it was released, as the action makes up for the shortcomings in a big way. On reflection, it's just a twist on the vastly superior PREDATOR which came out two years before. Dolph is as wooden as a tree, as are the rest of the cast. The horrible Talec (Matthias Hues) is about nine feet tall and looks like a pop eyed model for Mount Rushmore. This movie does have one big name star...Michael J. Pollard, who was in BONNIE AND CLYDE (he played CW Moss) and LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY (with Robert Redford), and many other films in a fine portfolio of work. However, Pollard's star was definitely on the wane by the time he appeared in this...he has a small cameo as a pool playing snitch. To sum up, this is a typical 80s movie, from the cast to the soundtrack (by Jan Hammer), and is easily Dolph's best film...it's a lot better than THE PUNISHER anyway. ENJOY!
More intergalactic idiocy from Sneaky Elephant SOON!
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