Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Steineded How sad is this?

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Comeuppance Reviews When a team of terrorists take over a water filtration plant and start holding hostages from a tour group, only one man can stop the madness: police detective David Chase (Fahey, not the guy who created The Sopranos playing himself). He has to go up against not just the main hostage taker, the unbalanced Montessi (Coates), and his team of underlings with wacky code names such as Sparky (Dwyer) and Pogo (Potts), but the TRUE mastermind of it all, the sinister Turner (Busey). Luckily, Chase has a few tricks up his sleeve to deal with the baddies before they contaminate the water supply (he only has about four hours or so), and he has teamed up with Melissa (Moss), a plant worker, to save the day.It's Die Hard (1988) in a water filtration plant (I just filled in the blank from our Crackerjack, 1994 review). Off the bat, we know this is going to be an odd one. Starting with, believe it or not, some close-ups of Gary Busey's teeth as he talks to no one in particular, with some pounding music behind it, very soon we see something we know isn't good: nefarious-looking men in overcoats and sunglasses walking in slow motion. Those have to be the bad guys. Kim Coates puts in a noteworthy performance as Montessi. He must have known he was doing the role many people have done before, so he tried to change it up. He has all these little jokes, strange vocal inflections and tics to try to put a spin on the "hostage taker" part. He does wave his gun around a lot, but he at least tried to do it differently, which is a good thing.Jeff Fahey has a cool jacket and cool hair, and generally just seems "too cool" for the supposedly urgent situation. We always like seeing him. Carrie-Anne Moss is on hand as the romantic interest/sidekick, and we don't normally see her in DTV product such as this, so that was a nice change as well. Gary Busey is his normal, unhinged self, and from the bad guy team, Karen Dwyer as Sparky stands out from the crowd.However, this came out in 1997, meaning the influence of Quentin Tarantino must have proved too hard to resist for the filmmakers. For no apparent reason, instead of action scenes or plot points, characters just start talking about The Jeffersons and Good Times. That now seems somewhat embarrassing, and unnecessary. We don't want pop culture references, especially apropos of nothing. We'd rather hear Jeff Fahey try to woo women talking about his brie omelets. (Don't forget, we've already seen teams of men walking in slow motion that have code names...but I'm sure Reservoir Dogs, 1992 never played into the equation here).For a goofier-than-usual, shot-in-Canada DTV product, Lethal Tender (gotta love that title) is actually pretty entertaining.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Al (amdp) Okay, bad guys let by Kim Coates invade a water facility and threaten to poison the drinking supply as a front for an even bigger crime perpetrated by Gary Busey, only to be foiled by The Lawnmower Man! (Jeff Fahey in a performance that screams "I'm just collecting a paycheck.") Carrie-Ann Moss is supposed to be the sidekick along for the ride, but she actually fares better than the guy protecting her! The Good: For a B-movie, the set-work IS top-notch. Two real water facilities were used and this was taken advantage of throughout the movie. The heels in the movie obviously knew this was a crap gig and hammed it up all the way through. Kim Coates in particular was on a role as the dick-head leader Montessi, with one-liners galore.The Bad: This was supposed to be a Die Hard clone, but there were maybe six bad guys at most. Any police force could have eaten these guys before dinner, but we get David Chase (Jeff Fahey), so the baddies have a chance. Instead of brute force, Fahey should have used his wooden, monotone delivery to subdue the criminals, as it would have been more effective. Carrie-Ann Moss puts a feather in her cap long before Fahey gets his stuff in gear and even is the deciding factor in Fahey's survival - and we're not even halfway through the movie! The bad guys, while funny, are equally inept. In fact, the enemy met their demise largely due to internal backstabbing and their own errors, not due to Chase! There were several times where Montessi could have ended the threat of Chase but instead gave him An Easily Escapable Scenario as Austin Powers would put it.The Ugly: The "Sass Jordan-esquire" song at the end of the movie, which is also the lone song on the "soundtrack." This would have rated higher for camp reasons if the "action" scenes had, you know, action! As it is, a 5/10 for intentional comedy by Kim Coates and crew, followed by unintentional comedy by Jeff Fahey.

D-PaC This movie had the characteristics of a B-movie, but had a very good plot. Jeff Fahey put on a very good role & the bad guy had a big ego. The fact that I didn't fall a sleep watching this movie after a hard days work, proofs it's not that bad at all & it's really worth watching.

bob the moo When terrorists led by Montessi (Kim Coates) take over a water plant they set the system in motion to shut down and poison the drinking water. Luckily cop David Chase (Jeff Fahey) is locked within the plant and sets about freeing the hostages with worker Melissa Wilkens (Carrie-Ann Moss).In a world of many many Die-Hard inspired movies you really need to do something special to make sure that it stands out. Unfortunately this doesn't do anything to make it stand out from the raft of other DTV movies. The plot here doesn't inject any type of excitement into the film - for most of it the idea is that in 4 hours time, the water system will shut down releasing bacteria into the drinking supply. Well - why not just issue a public health warning to not drink the water rather than send in the SWOT team straight off? A later sub-plot comes in that has to do with stolen USA bonds but for the most part this lacks an sense of urgency.The action doesn't really help inject urgency. Fahey just sneaks around the place without being believable - Willis looked trapped in Die Hard, here Fahey just looks like he's out for a walk. There are no exciting scenes and no tension, it all makes for a boring 90 minutes. However the problem doesn't stop there - the performances are a poor beast as well. Fahey is a nice enough actor, but only when he's playing it tongue in cheek. Here he doesn't have the ability to play a man under pressure and hence fails to pass on any tension to us. Coates and Busey play the villains as a mixed pair. Coates plays the villain with too much comedy - he's not funny and he doesn't provide menace. On the other hand Busey (in career freefall) plays it too psychotically, he isn't believable either as he just kills people every two minutes. Carrie-Ann Moss is OK but, as the Matrix showed, she better than this.The only nice touch is Busey's little spiel over the opening credits - it's a nice touch but it lacks style. Overall however, this is yet another unwanted Die Hard clone with nothing new worth watching.