L.A. VICE is a straight to video action thriller from B-movie specialist director Joseph Merhi. This is one of his cheapest works, a straight-up tale of kidnapping and revenge, as a dedicated cop goes after a woman who had been kidnapped alongside her boyfriend. Cult actor William Smith co-stars as a good-guy police captain with a fine line in kicking ass. This film offers bottom-of-the-barrel production values, lots of rugged filming of Los Angeles at night, the requisite back alley and strip club settings, and plenty of goons being blown away in violent shoot-outs. It's hardly high art, and the director has done better.
Review of L.A. Vice
