I loved the opening. A henchman has to atoke to his Japanese mob boss (Mako) for "losing" a prized statue so he cuts off his finger. On the way out of the office, big bald baddie (Michael Berryman) gives him a fortune cookie. Outside his girlfriend is waiting for him. He sold the status for 50k. It was worth his finger he says. They get in the car. She askes him what his fortune says. He cracks it, "you will have a bright future". She turns over the car and it blows up. Beautiful.
A bullet hole gets put thru 'Armed Response' title card complete with a gunshot sound effect. They don't make this kind of kitche cheap 80's cheese anymore. An entire family get in on this action all revolving around that statue. David Carradine (Jim Roth). Lee Van Cleef (Burt Roth), Brent Huff (Tommy Roth), David Goss (Clay Roth). You got b-movie regular Ross Hagen as a PI. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa shows up in an early role as a bad guy torturer. Dick Miller (Terminator, Chopping Mall) & Laurene Landon as a whack duo of thieves.
Van Cleef as the elder father Burt likes to drink a little too much. Jim (Carradine) is a Vietnam Vet. Triggers some silly (cheap) flashbacks. One of the brothers who is also a PI tosses a coin into his secretary's cleavage ... "Here's a quarter. The phonebooth's down the hall."
From cheapo filmmaker Fred Olen Ray, 'Armed Response' is an 80's politically incorrect one note actioner that maintains the fun if you like the faces involved. The director himself turns up as one of the American GI's that gets mowed down in Vietnam at Carradine's side.
A bullet hole gets put thru 'Armed Response' title card complete with a gunshot sound effect. They don't make this kind of kitche cheap 80's cheese anymore. An entire family get in on this action all revolving around that statue. David Carradine (Jim Roth). Lee Van Cleef (Burt Roth), Brent Huff (Tommy Roth), David Goss (Clay Roth). You got b-movie regular Ross Hagen as a PI. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa shows up in an early role as a bad guy torturer. Dick Miller (Terminator, Chopping Mall) & Laurene Landon as a whack duo of thieves.
Van Cleef as the elder father Burt likes to drink a little too much. Jim (Carradine) is a Vietnam Vet. Triggers some silly (cheap) flashbacks. One of the brothers who is also a PI tosses a coin into his secretary's cleavage ... "Here's a quarter. The phonebooth's down the hall."
From cheapo filmmaker Fred Olen Ray, 'Armed Response' is an 80's politically incorrect one note actioner that maintains the fun if you like the faces involved. The director himself turns up as one of the American GI's that gets mowed down in Vietnam at Carradine's side.