A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader.
I love this director. First, he gave us Island of Death, an utterly outrageous and hilarious piece of video nasty trash. Then, after thinking that was the only film he’d ever made, I found myself watching Nightmare at Noon, a Crazies style film with plenty of action and hoots. Now, I’ve sat through Hired to Kill, and although it’s not as good as those two films, it still has plenty of daftness to keep my attention.
Brian Thompson is one of those secret service types hired to infiltrate a despotic country and overthrow dictator Oliver Reed, but not just that, he’s got to do it posing as a gay fashion designer with an entourage of special forces beauties posing as models. So it’s kind of like the dirty dozen remade by Vogue magazine, including the obligatory training scene, and the obligatory fashion model shoot. No wonder Oliver Reed looks perplexed (and a little bit toasted in a couple of scenes).
This is all pretty fun stuff, but there’s a lack of action for the first hour or so. Still, there’s the standout scene where Oliver Reed checks whether or not Thompson is actually gay or not which had me in stitches. I’m not even sure Reed was expecting to be kissed by Thompson because his surprise seems pretty genuine. Great stuff.
Also Known As (AKA): Libérateur, Blöd und blöder, Killer Team, Destructor, Top model – Sfilata all’inferno, Top model per uccidere, O Regresso do Mercenário
File Name : Hired.to.kill.1990.mkv
File Size : 1492.46 MB
Resolution : 800×432
Duration : 01:36:28
Video : AVC (AVC), 1 777 Kbps, 24.000 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 192 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 2 streams
Quality: HDRip
Language: English, Russian (2 tracks)
Genre: Action, Thriller
