The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 93

THURSDAY APRIL 27 1989 CP THE MIAMI HERALD 3 1 LIVELY ARTS Red Scorpion silly muddled Trash and slash fans will love I Madman Movie Review Red Scorpion (R) Howie Ilevicw I Madman (R) Vf i CAST: Dolph Lundgren Emmet Walsh Bncn James White CREDITS Director JosepnZilo jack Abramoff Screenwriter Ame Olsen Cinematographer: Joao Fernandes Music JayChattaway A ShapiroGiiCKennausrelease Running tirge luG minutes Vulgar language violence and oore grunts makes Stallone seem like Chatty Cathy He sweats well but even in 1989 that may not be enough CAST: Jenny Wright Clayton Rohner CREDITS: Director Tibor Takacs Screenwriter David Chaskin Cinematographer Bryan England Producer Rafael Eisenman Executive producers Paul Mason Helen Sarlut-Tucker A Trans World Entertainment release Running time HOmmutes Gore violence profanity brief nudity Herald movie critics rate movies from zero to four stars A A Excellent Very Good Good Worth Seeing Fair Poor Zero Worthless By BILL COSFORD Herald Movie Critic Dolph Lundgren who once played Sylvester bionic Russian adversary Rocky II) is back in Commie harness in Red Scorpion a preposterous muddle about a Red Army Rambo on assignment in the African country of There Red Scorpion is to assassinate a rebel leader but when he misses his target he is abandoned by his superiors and left for dead Of course he die One-man armies never do And when he is hale once more Scorpion returns to the fray with a whole new ideology: Communists are bad! In this crusade he has many supporters but no real help though hard to discount the rantings of the wonderfully scruffy Emmet Walsh as a blow-hard American journalist who plays Little Richard songs on his tape deck and brays at Dolph at every opportunity Red Scorpion moves quickly and it certainly is loud a helicopter just over the horizon in nearly every scene but what it means for the Lundgren career is problematic Dolph is not shall we say articulate He does for dialogue roughly what Exxon does for water and his repertoire of monosyllables and By JUAN CARLOS COTO Herald Entertainment Writer If into cheap thrills Madman delivers This low-budget horror flick introduces a curious heroine: Virginia Clayton Genny Wright) a used-book store employee who devours gruesome potboilers about the mad Dr" Kessler They were written by the late Malcom Brand (Randall William Cook) who Stephen King read like Mother Virginia says Brand also mysteriously classified the books as Virginia realizes why when she begins reading Madman considered best In the book the disfigured Dr Kessler slices up faces to graft their features onto his own hideous mug He hopes his hodgepodge face will win over a beautiful movie star Fat chance His back-alley plastic surgery only grosses out Virginia who pictures all this in her mind Soon the images become so real that her friends are being knocked off and Dr Kessler confuses Virginia for the movie star 7 Madman is as irresistible as its MAY EVEX LAI GII UMIL YOU -Mkluel PHIefcfcU I0CT MONTH sTMtTI LIAR TONY DANZA junk-book inspiration and director Tibor Takacs shows a campy admiration for the genre He and cinematographer Bryan England bring the 1950s pulp world to life with B-grade cliches: dark corridors bright colors and the ubiquitous shadows of the madman Takacs lets his movie plod in the middle and Wright always engrossing so 7 Madman will probably lose you if not a trash-and-slash fan But if you are this is one movie to curl up with Randall William Cook and Jenny Wright in I Madman Now Showing! 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