'Laser Mission' (1989) – B.J Davis.

B.J Davis's amiably roughshod, pyro-happy 80s actioner frequently felt like a, Fred Olen Ray concocted B-Movie blend of backstreet Bond and 'It Happened One Night', which, for me at least 'aint no bad thing! If one can forgive the mustily conventional comic book text, 'Laser Mission' remains a low budget, hi jinks-laden hoot! Replete with non-specific European accent, Ernest Borgnine's 'laser-weapon' building professor Braun uncomfortably finds himself in the rapacious clutches of Teutonic supervillain, Eckhardt (Werner Pochath). Can clean-cut, fleet-fisted Kung Fu agent, Michael Gold (Brandon Lee) save the world from imminently laser-guided doom?  

Along with the plentiful gun play, the pulchritudinous, Debi Monahan, scene-chewing villainy,noisome car crashes and ozone-depleting explosions, the main attraction remains handsome, Brandon Lee's energetically charismatic super-agent, Michael Gold. The fight scenes are of a happy-slappy, Johnny Ringo variety, and South Africa provides an unconvincing Cuban backdrop, yet even with its hinkey mise-en-scène, I kinda' dug it! Sure, it's conspicuously dumb, DTV Euro-spy schlock, but spunky Alissa (Monahan) is an agreeably busty, petrol-headed sidekick, the unflappable deadly do-right, Michael Gold is manifestly heroic, and 'Laser Mission' concludes boisterously with an enjoyably hyperbolic finale. Fans of, Fred Olen Ray, Frank Zagarino, and PM Entertainment are, perhaps, the more ideal demographic for, Beau Davis's fun, lowbrow, high-octane actioner.