Hurricane Smith

1992, 1080hd

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Hurricane Smith is 1992 action thriller in which Texan oil worker Billy 'Hurricane' Smith (Carl Weathers) goes looking for his missing sister who was last seen on the Gold Coast. After getting no help from immigration, he works out that his sister was at a house which is used as a brothel and meets prostitute Julie (Cassandra Delaney) who seems to know her, but Billy is chased out of the place by her cocksure pimp Shanks (who else but David Argue). Billy follows Julie and Shanks as they visit their local kingpin boss Charlie (a dubbed Jürgen Prochnow). Charlie takes Julie for his own pleasure, but Billy interrupts them, knocking Charlie out while Julie agrees to tell Billy what she knows. She needs to postpone that confession because Charlie wakes up and alerts his goons. Billy narrowly escapes. Charlie and his goons eventually catch up with Billy and torture him. Once again Billy narrowly escapes and meets up with Julie. Together they go looking for Billy's sister. It seems that another local criminal, Howard (Tony Bonner), might know her whereabouts, but before they can meet with Howard, Charlie kills him in a bomb blast that Billy (wait for it) ... narrowly escapes. Billy finds out the truth about his sister and decides there's only one recourse and that's to kill Charlie.

Silly, low rent action thriller obviously made for the overseas market by casting Weathers and Prochnow. It has a few good stunts but a few is not enough to sustain a paper-thin plot. There's also much silliness going on in the movie, which doesn't help. I kept asking myself, 'Why is this happening?'. Oh sure, the plot is boring, the action lacking in quantity, and everyone is barely trying, but it's also majorly hampered by the one thing that hampers pretty much every movie made on the Gold Coast (possibly with the exception of Gettin' Square) and that is that everything looks so low rent because it's such a tacky place. It's quite amazing how this happens...

Cassandra Delaney film clip (collage below)

Louise McDonald film clip (sample below)