Saturday, May 31, 2014

Laser Mission (1989)

How bad is it? It's a bad idea, done ineptly.
Should you see it? It doesn't have enough going for it to warrant watching.

This film went straight to video and then had a surge in popularity four years later, with the death of its star, Brandon Lee. Ernest Borgnine plays a scientist who knows how to make a terrible laser weapon, if only one had a large enough diamond. The Russians steal the world's largest diamond and then kidnap Borgnine in a plan to make him create the weapon for their use. Lee has to come to the rescue, to save the world from Russian domination (which was becoming rapidly implausible as this was filmed). Borgnine was much too old for his role and Lee isn't any more believable in his and the whole film has a by-the-numbers feel.

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