Raw Justice

Plot synopsis:
New Orleans journalist Donna Stiles (April Bogenschutz) is in her home one night, preparing to take a shower, when a man sneaks into her home and kills her.
Donna's father, mayor David Stiles (Charles Napier), calls on Donna's former fiancee, cop-turned-bounty hunter Mace (David Keith), to stop chasing bail-jumpers and bring in the killer. Mitch McCallum (Robert Hays), who once dated Donna, with disastrous results, and is now accused of the murder, insists that he is innocent.
Mace has an uneasy relationship with the regular police force, especially Detective Atkins (Leo Rossi). Mace tackles his mission wholeheartedly until Mitch is nearly killed by a bomb planted in his home. Mace and Mitch are ambushed and pursued; they barely escape, accompanied by Sarah (Pamela Anderson), a hooker who witnessed the attacks and must go into hiding with Mace and Mitch.
Mace threatens Bernie (Bernard Hocke), a bail bondsman, with a baseball bat to find out who posted Mitch's bond and wanted him killed out on the street. After Mace leaves Bernie's office, Atkins uses the same bat to beat Bernie to death, setting Mace up to be blamed for Bernie's death.
Later, Mitch saves Mace from a gunman in his hotel room. Mace figures out that Mitch has been framed by Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins (Stacy Keach), who had Donna killed so he could steal a disc from her computer, fill it with false accusations of incest, then use the disc to blackmail Mayor Stiles into refusing to run for office again, because Jenkins is tired of playing second fiddle to Mayor Stiles. Atkins has been working for Jenkins.
Jenkins admits to Mayor Stiles that Jenkins is the mastermind behind Donna's murder as Atkins pursues Mace, Mitch and Sarah across the bayou, finally cornering them in a clip joint, where Mace uses a giant dart to kill Atkins. Jenkins takes Stiles hostage and demands safe passage out of the city.
Jenkins shoots Mayor Stiles in the shoulder, and a helicopter arrives for Jenkins, who releases Mayor Stiles and gets on the helicopter. Disguising himself as Jenkins's pilot, Mace parachutes to safety just before the helicopter slams into a skyscraper, causing an explosion that kills Jenkins.

Tags: revenge, comedy, murder, violence

Review:
I love this film, i dare you to watch it and not laugh at the series of lame gags and poorly co-ordinated action scenes.
I didn't think it was possible but this film manages to be both nonsensical and predictable at the same time.
Around about this time Pamela Anderson must have been one of the most famous TV actresses around, but as you can see from this, her Film career never really took of, and to be fair her performance here is fairly terrible.
The lead character of Mace is your typical loose-cannon angry ex-cop who despises "bleeding-heart judges" and does things his own renegade way.
The character of Mitch is a man wanted for murder and completes the intrepid threesome who are the focus of the film, and for some reason our heroes have to run from the baddies chasing them through New Orleans.
Although in all honesty its not a great film, or even a good film, its by the numbers approach to presenting a cops and robbers action movie complete with lots of unnecessary sex and violence is just fun.
I would recommend this film if you want a good laugh at a film that shouldn't really be taken seriously, especially if you find the "McBain" scenes from the Simpsons funny as this film could easily be a Ranier Wolfcastle production..
Would've loved to be David Keith for this movie.
Fantastic scene even if the rest of the movie isn't up to much.
No doubt Pam makes the movie as good as it is.
It is however, hilariously awful and I'd like to recommend it for that very reason.In the opening scene Mace (David Keith) is out to bust some guy who's just jumped bail.
Somehow this genius plan doesn't go smoothly and the bail jumper manages to make a run for it, and what follows is a foot chase with David Keith dressed in drag.
Funny, right?Meanwhile, Mitch McCullum (Robert Hays) has just had a one-night stand with the Mayor's daughter.
After dropping her off at her home, Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins (Stacy Keach) orders some hit-man to kill her, not before showing us her rubbing herself repeatedly as she showers nude.
So in order to live his dream, he decides that killing Mayor David Stiles' (Charles Napier) daughter who was currently writing a book, adding a chapter about incest to her book then threatening Stiles that if he doesn't resign his position as Mayor in his next speech, he'll release the book to the public.
It just doesn't know where to go.Mayor Stiles hires Mace to investigate, as apparently a loose cannon is exactly what he needs.
He meets up with Mitch, the guy who had the one night stand and was initially accused of the murder and the two reluctantly team up and get involved in a couple of shootouts, a crappy car chase, a barfight and a swamp boat chase with hit men and corrupt cops all appearing out of nowhere.
As for Pamela Anderson, her character is completely detached from the main plot and the reason for shoehorning her into it is the lamest thing.
During the middle of the movie, Mace bumps into her by coincidence and she's angry because he left her outside in her underwear and never returned her clothes.
Now she's been seen with them, she's now part of it and can't be let go.Yeah, I know...Just prior to the Mayor's speech, our heroes have just won a barfight.
Mace presses corrupt cop Atkins (Leo Rossi) for information as to who he's working for, he gives in and says he's working for Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins.
Mace doesn't even interrogate him for any more information, all he gets is a name before Atkins goes for his gun and is killed, so the only evidence they have against Jenkins is the word of a now deceased cop who our heroes have killed.So the Mayor's speech has now begun, and if he doesn't resign his position, Jenkins will release the edited book to the public.
Jenkins responds by claiming that Stiles had her killed when suddenly our heroes enter the room in and Mace says "I don't think so.
Now, the only evidence they have against Jenkins is one name from a deceased cop who the heroes have killed.
He's so unbelievably stupid it's a wonder how he obtained his position as deputy mayor in the first place.But it gets worse.
He basically rapes Pamela Anderson's character just after a shootout.
Robert Hays is not as bad as Keith but that's not saying much.
Reliable B-movie veterans Charles Napier, Stacy Keach and Leo Rossi are wasted.
Pamela Anderson has absolutely no reason for being there other than to have two long and boring sex scenes.
Her acting is atrocious and her line delivery is at times hilarious, especially in the scene where she tries to comfort Mitch who's feeling sorry for himself by telling him "I think you're being a bit hard on yourself".
Overall, this is awful but I highly recommend anyone who loves bad movies to check it out.
Robert Hays,whose career had a handful of early successes--the short-lived success of TV's "Angie" and the two wildly funny "Airplane" movies--followed by a long string of films that would elicit blank stares of confusion if mentioned to the average film viewer--"Touched",anyone?--and numerous TV projects that would not last past a year(my fave was the TV treatment of "Starman"),ends up in this flick which really has little going for it except the film debut(?) of Playboy mega-babe and "Baywatch" fixture Pamela Anderson.
Her nude/sex scenes along with a very lovingly filmed shower scene with starlet model April Bogenschutz really seem to be all that makes this flick seem watchable.
David Keith(here a LONG ways from "An Officer and a Gentleman" and even "Firestarter") as the gruff,angry,hard-bitten cop seems to barely register here.
Stacy Keach's usual oiliness is underused here, and the film is set squarely on the shoulders of Keith,Hays and Anderson.
It seems as if the writer(s) of the movie,in desperate need of a catch-phrase for Keith' s character,is best able to come up with the "Don't EVER insult my mama!"when a thug or goon he runs into calls him an S.O.B. Not very inspired,need I say.Strictly late-night cable viewing.
Silly action flick saved by Pamela Anderson.
Good Cop Bad Cop is one of a handful of 90's films that were promoted around the sex appeal of the world's number one pinup of the time, Pamela Anderson.
Like all of the other flicks, Anderson once again is the best thing about this one.
I guess, strictly speaking, many people will think this this isn't enough of a reason for the film to exist and fair enough.
Amazingly, he is the 'good cop' of the title, yet his heavy handed tactics like smashing up a bondsman's office with a baseball bat, punching innocent people out and treating Anderson's character with a fair degree of misogyny means that I couldn't help but think that the film should really have been called 'Bad Cop, Marginally Better Cop'.
The cast is rounded off with three other B-Movie regulars, Charles 'Supervixens' Napier, Robert 'Airplane!' Hays and Stacy 'Longriders' Keach; all of whom do what is needed and no more, yet all are preferable to David Keith.The film is an action thriller, yet it definitely plays things for comedy value quite a bit so it's fairly light-hearted mostly.
If it wasn't blessed with a couple of hot Pamela Anderson erotic scenes, I am guessing I would have marked this one down a notch or two but she saves it from irrelevance and gives it its lasting interest value.
I put a 3/10 but for a girl or anyone who thinks Pam is ugly, this movie is not even worth that....
OK, so there is virtually no plot in this movie, the acting is atrocious at best and there are some very annoying characters in it.
I know it sounded like there was going to be a but...., well there isn't, this movie is rubbish and it would be a waste of time to watch it..
But if you watched this movie to see fine Shakespearean actors giving their all, then I have no pity for you.
The movie is fun on a few levels, but should in no way be taken seriously..
Why. i thought this movie was kind of funny because david keith had sex with pamela anderson after a high speed chase.
the movie had D- action and a plot that only John Woo could do something with.
It was a stupid movie but the sex scenes were good..
One of the worst movies i ever watched.
A movie just made for two scenes (minute 39 and 58).
When the daughter of Mayor Stiles is murdered, the chief suspect is a shy young loser who had a date with her that night.
The Mayor goes to ex-cop and bounty hunter Mace to make sure Mitch doesn't skip bail, however almost immediately Mitch is set up to commit `suicide'.
When Mace is also framed from murder the pair realise that something sinister is going on and they go on the run with hooker Sarah.Basically this film couldn't have been more see through and obvious if they had dropped the original title and called it `A Chance To See Her T*ts' - for that simply appears to be the entire raison d'etre of the film.
The script jumps around all over the place with actions hardly explained and things just happening - it's like the film exists in a world where sense does not exist.The action scenes are idiotic.
The yare like a bad A-Team shoot out with fights that try to be funny and fail - thus damaging the scene in more than one way!
Some reviewers have praised the sex scenes and claimed them reason enough to watch the film - sorry, but no.
The fact that easily spotted errors were left in the film proves how little even the crew cared (look at the helicopter blades at the end, or the open hotel room where Sarah goes to be with Mitch).The cast are awful, truly awful.
Keith is a joke; he tries to be charismatic but only succeeds in giving a bad impression of much, much better action actors.
Anderson has big breasts that look good, but why should I have to suffer her inability to act because of that.
Napier and Keach are familiar faces but just as bad as they often are.Overall this is a film that is based on the premise that people would like to see Pamela Anderson naked.
This is not a film that cares about characters, logic, plotting, suspense, drama, thrills or action.
This is the standard American action / thriller soup with : gunfights, car chases, death, nudity, corrupted politicians, explosions, sex, corrupted cops, bar fight,  However, this movie has a jewel that is to say Pamela Anderson.
She is rather fun here and notwithstanding she is dressed very lightly all the movie, she manages to give 2 hot scenes as well !
I don't know why she chose to do it while she was already a star in « Baywatch » but it's better than her other (bad) movies (« snapdragon », « naked souls »)..
It's funny to notice that the french video cover shows clearly the skin action and that all the cast is credited with their famous movies.
To have good character actors such as Robert Hays (Airplane movies), Charles Napier (Rambo II), David Keith (Officer & Gentleman, U-571), and Stacy Keach (too many to list); you would expect better acting.
The plot of the movie is basic and definitely predictable.
The main bad guy is the only one who is even using a semi-auto pistol and he can't even hit the side of a barn except in one scene; two shots, two dead.
As it turns out April was the daughter of a man named "David Styles" (Charles Napier) who just happens to be the mayor of New Orleans.
So when an anonymous person posts bail for Mitch the mayor asks a bounty hunter named "Mace" (David Keith) to keep an eye on Mitch to make sure he doesn't try to flee the area.
What neither the mayor, Mace nor Mitch realize is that April was deliberately targeted and the person responsible for her death has an agenda that threatens all three of them.
Additionally, when a prostitute by the name of "Sarah" (Pamela Anderson) becomes accidentally associated with both Mitch and Mace she is also targeted as well.
No doubt those who enjoy chase scenes and pyrotechnics will love it but I thought it would have been nice if the director (David A.
So when Mayor Stiles' (Napier) daughter is mysteriously killed, he runs straight to Mace's pad, because he needs someone who will work "outside the law" and by his own rules, to get to the truth and find the killer.
A goofy guy named Mitch McCullum (Hays) is the prime suspect in the murder but of course is innocent.
So Mace and Mitch go on the run (as the original odd couple, of course) in an attempt to get justice, perhaps of the raw variety.
And what do Lieutenant Atkins (Rossi) and Deputy Mayor Jenkins (Keach) have to do with all this intrigue?
Prior movie from the time when he wasn't with AIP anymore, just like Felony (1994), and even some Felony cast members are reunited here, namely Napier and Rossi.
The Felony formula of "reluctant buddies on the run" is tried once again, but this time instead of Joe Don Baker and Jeffrey Combs, it's David Keith and Robert Hays.
Prior clearly was unashamed to make a movie of stupid, undemanding fun.
It's perfect for 1994, and the cast of B-movie names would surely be enough to garner a rental at the old video store, especially with Pam front and center to attract potential renters.Leo Rossi does yet another wacky "Southern" accent, Stacy Keach is almost unrecognizable, Pam Anderson does the prerequisite nudity, and Robert Hays does what we've always wanted from him, Robert Hays-Fu in a fight scene.
Charles Napier barks his lines as we all expect, and David Keith is the main hero.
Keith really seemed to give his all and be very invested in the role of Mace.
Of course, being the ultimate gentleman, when Robert Hays drops off his date at the end of the night, he gives her one of those Troll dolls that were so big at the time.
We've reviewed many of Prior's movies on this site, because we're fans of his, and he'd refined his style at this point to its most professional level to date.
**SPOILERS*** Muddled big city crime drama involving this former New Orleans cop now turned bounty hunter Mace, David Keith, getting involved in finding the city Mayor's David Stites, Charles Napler, daughter Donna's, April Bogenschultz, murderer.As things turn out the #1 suspect is Donna's date the night that she was killed Mitch McCullum, Robert Hayes.
we soon find out that Bennett was working for Mayor Stites' deputy Bob Jenkins, Stacey Keach, who's looking to blackmail the mayor by planting, in a tell all book that Donna's was in the process of writing, the false story that he molested Donna when she was a little girl and end up getting his job by forcing Stites to resign from office.In covering his tracks in Donna's murder Jenkins later guns down Bennett as he comes to get his payment for offing her leaving no one to implicate him in her murder.
It's when Mace starts to suspect that Donna's murder was political not a random act of violence that Jenkins gets hold of members of the New Orleans police department to knock both Mace as well as McCullum off to keep them from bringing the truth out.
We get the heat turned on at least an extra 20 degrees in the movie with the appearance of the 36-24-35 Sarah played by the sexy "Baywatch" lifeguard Pamela Anderson.
This combination of bounty hunter pasty and dizzy blond in the end puts an end to Bob Jenkins' attempt to not only grab the keys to the city in becoming its next mayor but later to become the states's governor!With all three-Mace Mitch & Sarah- now a threat to Jenkins' future political ambitions he gets his paid off stooges in the New Orleans Police Department as well as a number of local hoods to try to both arrest and gun them down in their being responsible in poor Donna Stites death.
**SPOILERS*** In the end Mayor Stites in a news conference staged by Jenkins to announce his resigning as mayor instead lets the cat out of the bag, on live TV, in the fact that it was Jenkins , not Hayes or even Mace, who murdered his daughter!
The films exciting ending sequence has the now exposed killer and blackmailer Bob Jenkins try to make his escape to an unnamed Caribbean or South American banana republic, where he would feel quite at home in, by holding Mayor Stites as a hostage.
What turns out to be Jenkins biggest problem is not the police FBI or SWAT team that's hot on his tail but the person, the helicopter pilot, who's to fly him out of the country!Lots of action with an explosive pre 9/11 air crash into a high rise office building and actor David Keith doing a pretty good hot headed Sonny Corleone "Godfather" number, while dressed in drag as a hooker, on one of those bail jumpers he's out to bring in.
By far the best reason to see the movie is the hot as a pistole Pamela Anderson, as Sarah, getting it on with Mace in a deserted alley that came very very close to getting the movie an X rating!