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Brutal Glory (1989)
Almost made up story of Charles "Kid" McCoy
This movie starts as a biopic and looks a little bit as "Ask the Dust". Then turns out in a bad soap opera type direction with all of the clichés of the American Dream. The poor guy beaten by the father who searches for Revenge of Life and Glory in the Boxing Matches. Robert Vaughin dressed as the Italian mask Toto sees him and takes him to the top and success.The first hour is very slow-paced and boring. Then the champion and his band go to Africa for a trip for the last 40 minutes and the story gets a little bit funnier.Don't want to tell you the ending. But I checked out the story of Charles "Kid" McCoy and none of that was portrayed in this movie. Recommended for die hard fans of boxing. The boxing matches are well shot.
Hot Splash (1988)
Matt ,Woody, Jimbo & Jennifer are 4 surfers.One day they got involved with the gangster T.J.Caruso in a coke affair....
...To take revenge of the teens T.J. Caruso orders to his silly thugs to kdinap Jimbo before the Sundek Festival, a very big and famous Surf contest. Things get worse when Caruso's nephew falls in love for Matt and Jennifer have a crunch for Woody...
The lovemaking scene in the spa is the only thing a sensible guy can save and remember out of this poor photographed,bad written,bad acted, and bad directed movie (maybe movie is just a word too big for this one). surf shots are very few and they last 3 seconds not more. The plot needs big quantities of smoking pot to be fully appreciated. There is one scene where the guys fill the Matt's rubber and they throw it against a motorcycle guy making him fall to the ground, that maybe in the mind of the director should be funny but It's not. (the only hilarious things are the ending,where the goody guys fly away in a balloon with the money and the boss is caged in prison amongst I presume gay people, and a Micheal Jackson wannabe among the people on the beach.
) If you love silly flicks this one could risk to make hate them. Just some good T and A spread around this 88 minutes of pure waste but to me is not worth to give it the time of the day.
For the good luck of our eyes it seems that this is the only work made by this director.