Review – Wanted: Dead or Alive

This production sets the pace early on when the bad guy (KISS bassist Gene Simmons) blows up a movie theater showing Rambo. And his come-uppance in the end is one of the best uses to which a hand grenade has ever been put in a movie. Unfortunately the rest of the movie is pure crud. The CIA hires a bounty hunter (Rutger Hauer) to track down the villain and halt his string of bombings. The result is a parade of action movie clichés whipped together with a hearty dose of Reagan era racist paranoia. Mildly amusing