El placer de la venganza

My review was written in September 1987 after a screening in Washington Heights.

"Sweet Revenge" is an utterly routine action picture from the Roger Corman stable, reminscent of the Filipino-lensed films he cranked out for the old New World in the early 1970s.

Nancy Allen (pre-"Robocop") toplines as an L. A. reporter doing an undercover stgory on a white slavery ring, who is abducted by the ring's henchpersons Lotis Key and Sal Landi and taken with three young would-be models to the Far East lair of Cicero (Martin Landau, playing the sort of smu baddie used to foil weekly on "Mission: Impossible").

In the midst of numerous escapes and chases they are befriended by Boone (Ted Shackelford), a soldier of fortune involved in smuggling counterfeit Chanel No. 5 to the U. S. Pic sags considerably midway through as the leads take time out to help a pirate friend of Boone's.

Direction by Mark Sobel is by-the-numbers, with numerous explosions proving to be the action highlight. A hurried climax kills off each villain one-by-one, leading to a soggy, sentimental coda of Allen reunited with her missing daughter at the airport back home. Acting is okay, with tv star Shackelford physically right as the reluctant hero.