Concrete War The cult action movie of 1988 with Bruce Willis had an incredible impact on the film industry as a whole, and on the film being reviewed today in particular. Again, we have a huge high-rise building, a group of heavily armed criminals, one tough cop and his ex-wife taken hostage. Only instead of German terrorists, this time the opponents are the henchmen of the boss of the Italian criminal family.
Naturally, there will be cat-and-mouse games and numerous shootouts shot pretty well; there's even a nice episode in slow-mo. The secondary characters are colorful: Spider and athletic blonde with relief muscles, who looked great with weapons and diluted a team of bad guys, especially pleased.
Not possessing powerful biceps or dizzying stretch, thin and agile Michael Pare quite confidently feels like a hero of an action movie - walks with a gun and "Uzi", throws caustic and accurate phrases-jokes, does not lose composure and sense of humor in deadly situations. His ex, the charming Shannon Tweed, embodied the classic image of a lady in distress, and was also responsible for nudity and an indispensable sex scene. However, being the wife of a police officer, she knows a couple of tricks and will definitely demonstrate them at the right time. Decorates the picture and stylish Danny Trejo - he is very suitable for such, albeit small, roles of cruel mercenaries of the mafia.
Although not of the highest class, as the source that inspired it, but still it is a good and decent action of the second category. It belongs to the category of those banal, but damn nice tapes of the period, which you watch easily and with pleasure - provided that you love such a genre, of course. You can advise those who liked the Skyscraper with Anna Nicole Smith or the Dilogy Outside the Competition with the same Tweed.