Stone Cold (1991)

A cop who enforces his own brand of justice. Joe Huff is a tough go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation to convict some extremely violent bikers who are angry at the capture of their leader.Run Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 027616079329 Manufacturer No: M107932 Product Description

excellent movie

Stone Cold is an excellent movie, it has good actors, a good story to it and true to life. I recommend this movie if you like action and good acting. 5 stars l give it. Linda August 16, 2008

stone cold

awesome movie i saw this back when it first came out and it was as good as any of the other action flix out there . but as we all know in hollywood if you are not a part of the click you dont get good ratings.... brian is not the greatest actor out there but i think he does a good job , i wish they would put him in a movie with a big budget to show every one he is a pretty good actor. seriously.... look at sylvester stalone, he is not that good of an actor but he got in with someone that pulled the right strings. BUY ALL OF BRIAN'S MOVIES and really compare him to some of the ' GREATS' August 11, 2008

BEST BIKER MOVIE!

Not only is this the best biker movie ever, but one of the best action movies ever! How Brian Bosworth never became a major action star I will never know! July 7, 2008

Finally on DVD...the quintessential late night cable TV action flick

At last, I can retire my played-to-death VHS recording from Cinemax. This is a certified 5-star great "bad" movie. Bosworth really can't act, and yet, he does a great job with the lead character. Arabella Holzbog REALLY can't act, which probably explains why this flick didn't make her a household name. Her presence is required to set up a pretty predictable plot twist that happens in the second half of the film. I won't give a spoiler, but if you don't see this one coming from a mile away, you probably haven't watched a lot of movies. No one's going to accuse the writers of pushing the envelope.

But the one-two punch of Lance Henriksen and William Forsythe as biker bad guys? I've seen a number of movies from both actors, ranging from big budget to no budget, and this one's my all-time personal favorite. Henriksen really chews up the scenery, savoring every last bit of bad-guy bravado. Forsythe goes for the real 1% turf. Together, they're the reason why you'll watch this more than once.

Like any good "bad" movie, this one's going to require you to suspend disbelief, and on more than one occasion. There's an abundance of things "blowing up real good," and lots of chunky, fuzzy rhythm guitar in the soundtrack.

Sam McMurray, as Bosworth's germ-phobic undercover sidekick, adds a touch of heavy-handed comic relief to the gunshots and roar of heavy metal thunder.

Drugs! Bikers! Undercover cops! Explosions! Face it, when you're flipping channels late on a Friday or Saturday night, this exactly the kind of flick you're hoping to stumble upon. Stumble no more. April 20, 2008

Not as good as it could have been

This movie is more like a typical Steven Seagal flick than, say, the Terminator or Dirty Harry films, or even Seagal's own Under Siege, and not because of the budget. It just doesn't try to be anything better. When it comes to plot, script, character development, and so on, not much effort is made to do anything more than the minimum needed to stick to the formula and get from one explosion and bloody confrontation to the next. Which seems a waste to me, since the talent and money were there to make this a better movie, if anyone had cared at all.

As a corrective to the very high rating this movie has here, consider that the IMDb average viewer rating for it is currently 4.9/10, which is strictly mediocre. (For comparison, Under Siege is rated by viewers at 6.2/10.)

To illustrate the needlessly weak points, this a movie in which if you need to get a submachine gun into a courtroom you just dress up like a priest and when the metal detector goes off, you show them your little cross pendant. Need to get out of a flying helicopter? Jump fifty feet down through some glass and you're fine. Shoot at a car or crash a motorcycle and it goes up like it's filled with napalm and lit matches, every time. Need to create some suspense? Have someone call and say they've found that the driver's license records of the undercover hero are "cross-indexed" to another name. Want to maximize the body count? Why not have the bad guys actually succeed in killing all their targets before the hero manages to give them a taste of their own medicine? (I think he did manage to save a secretary.) Need a bit of romance? Set it up, show the kiss, and just waste it at the end. It's impossible to guess why the bad guys didn't just kill the hero like they did everyone else, except of course that he was the hero. Some of the plot elements are only vaguely connected.

Well, you know if such things matter to you.

I mentioned talent. On the plus side, Bosworth isn't a great actor, but he was good enough to be in a much better movie. He's big and beefy and projects a suitably cool power. The film has an effectively gritty look and feel; most of the supporting roles are well enough filled; the motorcycles sound great and you get to see them a lot; the action overall is pretty good, particularly the helicopter stunts (before the jumping out part).

If you don't expect much of what makes for a superior film, or if you take pleasure in the common defects of this kind of movie, you'll probably enjoy it. Otherwise, don't bother. March 25, 2008

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