Wednesday, March 25, 2026

 Armstrong (1998) – Menahem Golan.


Former SEAL, and current military hard-ass Rod Armstrong (Frank Zagarino is tasked by B-icon Charles Napier to investigate the illegal trade of nuclear arms by Mafiosi thugs in Moscow. A serially gun-happy B-Actioner by maestro Golan, starring Charles Napier, Joe Lara, Richard Lynch, and lava-hot honey baby Kimberly Kates??? I'm on this like the rosiest cheeks on a busty Bavarian milk maid! The only cat that portrays intractable Soviet menace with more tempered steel than Stalin is main man Richard Lynch, the absolute go-to guy for bravura, Baltic-bred B-villainy! I can't quite appreciate the point of noisily berating a conspicuously 'B' actioner, just because it is almost indistinguishable from the last DTV shoot 'em you watched, a no less inane concept than chiding an honest barkeep for pouring you another pint of Guinness that tasted exactly like the previous one...Hey!!! if it 'ain't broke, right???? I dig straight shooter Zagarino's work, and his joyously lunkheaded, Gung ho shoot 'em ups, they remain an entirely guiltless pleasure, a peccadillo, more than ably sated by action impresario Menahem's energetic, Moscow-set Kalashnikov-fest Armstrong. I remain unashamedly team Zagarino, and Armstrong is arguably one of his sharper efforts, and fans of righteous, fearlessly fighting femmes/ girls-with-guns will rate the kinetic chase/fisticuffs by the distractingly delicious Kimberly Kates.







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  Armstrong (1998) – Menahem Golan. Former SEAL, and current military hard-ass Rod Armstrong (Frank Zagarino is tasked by B-icon Charles ...