This is one of the strangest, silliest action movies I've seen. Let's start with the first couple words of my summary. "A legendary bouncer." Huh? Is this the sort of thing that immediately makes me suspicious. The main character is approached by a businessman, who somehow knows the bouncer by reputation. This makes no sense to me.
A lot of the movie tries to do a few things for Patrick Swayze. He's simultaneously trying to be sexy for women, and an action star for men. Both of these things combine to make a very ambiguous movie. Swayze gets oiled up to do some tai chi, as his farmer friend watches. He has an awkward sex scene with the female lead.
The strangest thing is the inclusion of a line. Swayze is in a fight with some henchman. They're fighting on the bank of a pond. The henchman says the line "I fucked guys like you in prison!" Swayze has no response to this line. He ignores it and continues fighting. The obvious response is "You fucked guys?"
The villain in the movie is an evil businessman who seems to thrive on collecting protection money. That story isn't all that interesting, and it seems almost tangential to the main story. Rather, it seems like the movie starts off with one story, which is abandoned in favor of a less interesting story. Even if this story seems less interesting than the one we started with, the handling is ludicrous. The villain blows up two buildings, a business and a private property. Both of these are done as first smaller explosions, leading up to the entire building exploding. The villain also has a henchman of his drive a monster truck through a car dealership, crushing several cars as well as breaking walls.
The police are strangely absent from almost the entire movie. They appear at the end, but they never seem to care about massive property damage.
As much as this sounds like I hate it, that isn't the case. I can't say that I like it either. It's amusing, but it's not quite up to being a camp classic.
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