Back in Action is a very enjoyable and super dumb action flick starring the sadly short-lived duo of Roddy Piper (easily my favourite wrestler-turned-actor) and Billy Blanks (inventor of Tae Bo and megastar in Japan). Billy Blanks is... uh... Billy, a guy who desperately wants to fuck his sister. Wait. Let me start again. Billy Blanks is Billy, a guy who is trying to rescue his sister from being in a relationship with a mobster... so he can marry her and have deformed children with her. The latter is implied by the way he spray-paints her name everywhere (I'm not kidding) in-between high-kicking guys while they innocently attempt to take a leak. Roddy Piper is a bad-ass cop with little…

BACK IN ACTION - DIE VERGELTUNG

BACK IN ACTION ist und bleibt auch nach jetziger Ansicht mit einer meinen absoluten Lieblings-B-Actioner aus dem Nordamerikanischen Raum. Hat mir jetzt nach erneuter Ansicht, wieder genauso viel Laune und Spaß bereitet wie beim allerersten Mal.

Mein Erstkontakt mit diesem Film war, die mit der Heckenschere bereinigte olle VPS VHS aus dem Verleih. Mir war klar, dass er um seine besten Szenen erleichtert wurde. Aber ich war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits ein totaler Roddy Piper Fanboy und hab ihn, sei es im Ring bei der damaligen WWF oder aber dann auch als Schaupieler sehr in mein Fanherz geschlossen - Unvergessen sein Match bei Wrestlemania 8 gegen Bret Hart. Aber ja, da saß ich also…

I wish I had a better memory for all the films I used to see on the shelves of the local Blockbuster that I inwardly swore I would rent out one day.

I don't remember them until I see their posters and titles and Back in Action was one such title. I was mostly attracted to this one because Rowdy Roddy Piper was in it, and I had just started going through a wrestling phase, although if I'd known who Bobbie Phillips was at that point then she would have been the main attraction. Although my forever crush on her wouldn't start until she was in Murder One, which was a great series, by the way, you should all watch…

Billy Blanks, Toronto's deadliest ex-Special Forces cab driver, is intent on saving his sister from life as a mid-level gangster's moll. A project that's, frankly, not going well. They end up at a cemetary-based drug bust that goes awry, where Roddy Piper's partner, Canadian Burt Reynolds, passes away in a hail of knife fire.

Now Billy and Roddy must sort of... eventually... team up to bring down the villains responsible for all the murder and drugs (and illegal land yacht racing) in the city. Piper and TV scoop-seeker Bobbie Phillips probably spend more time together.

It's got Billy Blanks kicking the hell out of a lot of people. It's got Roddy Piper as a high-strung cop on a mission. It's…

"Diese Review kann Spuren von Werbung enthalten"

„Back in Action“ und nicht zu viel versprochen.
Oder besser: erst im Nachgang eingehalten. Denn als die seelige VPS-VHS-Videokassette damals mitte der 90er ihren Weg in die Videotheken fand sprach Coverrückseite von einem 90-minütigen-Actionfeuerwerk. Dummerweise war bereits nach 77 Minuten (inklusive Abspann!) schon Schluss auf dem Bildschirm. Länger war dieser Flickenteppich von Film aber auch nicht zu ertragen, denn das vom Verleih in vorauseilendem Gehorsam verabreichte Schnittgewitter spottete jeder Beschreibung.
Auf DVD allerdings ein paar Jahre später konnte man das erste gelungene Team-Up von „Tea-Bo-Mestre“ Billy Blanks und „Rowdy“ Roddy Piper in voller Pracht bewundern. Nach modernen Maßstäben mag das nur ein müdes Lächeln hervorrufen, doch muss es ja nicht immer comichaft übertrieben…

Not long ago I reviewed the second Roddy Piper and Billy Blanks collaboration, Tough and Deadly, which came out in 1995 and was the second film starring this pairing. But it was 1993's Back In Action that kickstarted their onscreen buddy action movie partnership, despite how short-lived it was, and in most ways, it was entertaining. Although I felt the script here didn't quite gel with me as much as Tough and Deadly. I mean, I really enjoyed it - yet at the same time, it didn't resonate with me as much as I expected it to do like that movie.

Billy plays a character named, erm, Billy who is very protective of his sister, Tara who ends up falling…

That was better than I was expecting! It's got all the hallmarks of a low budget direct-to-video action movie, but there was enough here for me to be pleasantly surprised at its quality. Don't get me wrong, it's still a low budget action movie, but my low (very low) expectations were surpassed.

There is some surprisingly decent cinematography and camerawork; with lots of well done steadycam shots. All the action scenes were of consistent quality, both in terms of choreography, as well as camerawork and editing. I was impressed that a film this small could have action that satisfying; there were fights, car chases, people falling from high places, even a few good explosions. The stuntwork throughout is really good,…

"Don't mind me, I'm just Billy Blanks with an insane facial expression, wearing double denim and going apeshit on anyone and everyone in sight. HEYAYYAYAYAAYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAA."

A bonkers actioner that must have used every squib available in the GTA, Back in Action makes up for an uninspired plot and pretty lousy acting (it's notable how quickly they get Blanks kicking faces to avoid having him speak) with nonstop battling and blowing stuff up. Piper is in top form here, never the most buff of the WWF stable but even his toupee looks like it has muscles in this one. Piper's heel-honed outbursts and Blanks's nonstop punch lunacy make for a great team, which only gets to quipping in the final reel.…