Renegade 1989 by AverageMansReviews

Renegade 1989 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/ritual/regenerating/shooting/stabbing/impaling/cutting/burning/animal cruelty/drugs/torturing/vehicle hit/breaking/self harm/medical/references to racism and homosexuality

American and North American: briefly; Police Officer Buster McHenry [Kiefer Sutherland:] an American that has gone undercover to capture this unknown crooked cop, whilst on this case something goes wrong that effects the life and the family of Hank Storm [Lou Diamond Phillips:] an Native American that takes his family and cultural/thoughtful heritage very seriously: but only by working together they will get what they both want.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 106 minutes film is broadly speaking; well on one hand it is a little bit confusing as we the audience just get thrown in the deep end without nothing to go on, we do get some after:  but regardless we still get thrown in, so consequently it does this project some time to find its feet and on top of that and on the other hand; we have two separate starts for our eventual partnership of Police Officer McHenry/Sutherland and Diamond Phillips/Storm; which I don't mind, but as a contributing factor of my point about this film needing time to find its feet and settle down, but after it has settled down; it just gets on with moving along throughout this project with a good place.

Action, comedy and art; we do get reliable high octane action with guns and chasing sequences, with now and again comedy being a factor; such as for one example Police Officer McHenry trying to get rid of Storm so he did something he really wants to do; so basically Police Officer McHenry puts him on the subway train, which takes Storm somewhere else or it should have done; if he didn't climb up onto the roof and jumped over to another subway train to return to do this a little like T-1000 [reference from: Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991,] the art of this sequence/how it is shot; it is a well presented sequence of events.

Character developments and performances; they do all reflect a very 1980s/1990s feel and look to them, which I am not criticising them for it; I'm simply saying the equivalent of; if it looks like an orange and smells like an orange then it is an orange, so they are all good, what with the excellent chemistry between an American: Police Officer McHenry/Sutherland and Native American: Storm/Diamond Phillips using the character developments/chemistry of cultural divide/cultural differences and eventually finding common ground; yes if you come from the 70's all the way through to the late 1990's you would have come across this cultural divide outlay of eventually finding there is more that brings us together and than divides us character developments, performances and consequently on-screen chemistry and these two individuals/one partnership bring all that the table with as I have already shown some comedy as well.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; after everything is said and done this project finds itself in this section of my marking system, I mean yes I know it doesn't exactly give the viewing audiences too much to go on at the beginning of this title, but then again it does pull things around it to as I have already referenced individually or together: the partnership of Sutherland and/or Dimond Phillips now I can't remember if this scene is moving or not, but there is an ongoing scene just for a few seconds as the ending credits begin to roll and yes this film has some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner Mystfest Special Award Jack Sholder and 1 Nominee from the same award ceremony/event  Best Film Jack Sholder