Immediately noting that 'Bare Knuckles' included future John Carpenter collaborators, Dean Cundy and, Debra Hill certainly piqued my interest no less stridently than groove maestro, Vic Caesar's funk-fabulous score, a righteous soundtrack which I have highly rated for a great many years! And can you really judge a film's merit by the garishly gnarly image of a Teflon-tough, majestically moustachioed man-cake cow punching his way through a wanted poster? Phook yas!!!!
Super studly, Zachary Kane (Robert Viharo) is one lizard-mean, hammer-fisted bounty hunter, noted for keeping one gimlet-sharp eye on the ladies, and the other steely orb rigidly fixed upon the next skell to slam his ham-sized fists into! With a hefty $15,000 bounty offered for the egregious psycho-cackling night crawler, but with capable Kane on his case, it is not long before this profoundly warped, skeevily hood-wearing, window-peeping, mommy-mewling mother-hunter soon becomes the hunted!!!
Zack Kane makes for a likeable, quick-witted anti-hero, prone to prolonged Han Solo brooding but with thrice the bellicose brawn, a gritty but not invulnerable fighter, a kingly head knocker on the city's mean streets, and an impassioned prince between the sheets! Kane certainly 'don't use much window dressing', taking his bitter coffee black, smoking unfiltered cigarettes, chugging whiskey neat and making sweet time with them bodacious broads cool and slinky!
The bloody raw 'Bare Knuckles' is a wickedly exhilarating, panther-paced, down n' dirty thriller with an especially epic, full-throttle backstreets bike chase, careening pell-mell, skell-for-leather into a gonzo, karate-hearty, bone-blasting, chop-socking climax of bruisingly balletic bare knuckle kick-assery! Don 'Ilsa She Wolf' Edmonds is a godly grindhouse Don and his tibia trashing, jaw-shocking, 'Bare Knuckles' is a ballsy B-movie actioner you can't refuse!
