Product Details

• Actors: Steve James, Margaret Avery, Tony Frank, Julius Tennon, Alex Morris
• Directors: Sam Firstenberg
• Writers: Samuel Vance
• Producers: Norman Stevens, Regina Dale, Samuel Vance, Troy Dale, Valerie Vance
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount Home Video
• VHS Release Date: April 5, 1990
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302174686
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,533 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Awww, yeah - Steve James is the MAN!, April 5, 2011

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Sam Franklin "gangsteroctopus" (The Valley, SoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riverbend [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie IS pretty over the top at times (at times?), although a lot of that's because of the overdone score (sorry, Paul Loomis). Still, it's pretty fun and, despite being directed by the guy who did "Ninja III: The Domination," actually occasionally touches on some interesting racial issues. It kind of reminded me of "Rosewood," except that instead of being a completely dishonest distortion of an actual historical event, it's a fictional invention (about some soldiers back from Vietnam to face a court martial for not wanting to kill unarmed civilians, who then escape and hole up in a small Southern town where the black people are being oppressed by a vile, corrupt, racist sherrif), and so it could take whatever license it deemed necessary to create a solid entertainment. Margaret Avery, I gotta say, is pretty darned hot in this - no wonder Steve James' character goes 'boi-oi-oi-oinggg!' when he first lays his eyes on her. Mmmm-hm!