Whiteforce

My review was written in June 1989 after watching the movie on New Star video cassette.

Sam Jones makes a convincing he-man hero in the otherwise ho-hum "Whitefore", one of three actioners with "Force" in the title he's made recently.

Headed direct to video, Far East opus marks an underwhelming return of Eddie Romero, whose '70s exploitation films for AIP and Dimension Pictures were a lot more fun for drive-in fans.

Jones is accused of murdering his partner Ken Metcalfe, when in fact Timothy Hughes, a megalomaniac drug lord, is responsible. The former "Flash Gordon" (billed as Sam J. Jones a decade back) is stuck with Metcalfe's spunky daughter Kimberley Pistone dodging bullets as both sides search for a laserdisc which has the incriminating information about the drug cartel on it.

Jimmy Fabregas provides a modicum of comic relief as Jones' sidekick. Henry Tefay's script is merely functional: in-joke that the villain is named "Alex Korda" is hardly yock-inducing for film buffs. Action scenes are perfunctory and Romero omits the t&a footage that once was his forte.