Summary is a small point but typical of this poorly thought out script/story. *When Wine knocks on Eppis's door he's shown in because he's mistaken for a soccer coach who's there to instruct Eppis' young son. Sometime later, the world's worst hit men show up, but Eppis' kid is still there. What happened to the soccer coach?
World's worst hit men? It's daylight in an upscale California suburb but without any inquiry the two "pro" killers start machine gunning......the outside of the house with no one in sight!
Speaking of Eppis, he's being sought for serious crimes committed during *the sixties but is a flamboyant and successful ad man or publicist, hardly a good cover for someone of his notoriety. Oh yes, Eppis is seen, multiple times, in news footage of perhaps no longer than ten years previously. Then he looked a bit like Geraldo Rivera. Well, since in 1974 (the time of the movie, which one character sets by saying, 'I haven't seen so-and-so in six years,since back in '68', Eppis is played by Murray Abraham, he not only must have had plastic surgery, but cranial surgery as well; he doesn't remotely resemble his earlier (and shown) self.
We also have Sam, the campaign manager, very public, very visible, Procari, Jr.(John Lithgow), the son of the wicked, super wealthy, super right wing, Procari, Sr. (Fritz Weaver), who a few years earlier had bankrolled a radical group who apparently committed crimes of such enormity that two their members are in prison for life, no parole. Well, doesn't someone, anyone, recognize the long missing (suposedly) Sam, Procari, Jr.? And speaking of being sent to prison for life, how does Eppis, shown in Federal custody in the sixties and found guilty at the same time as the others, escape being sent to prison? This is never dealt with nor explained.
Wine's two young children are given dialog that no child this side of Hollywood would ever think of saying and the scenes with them and Wine make one reach for one's pistol.
Finally, though there's so much more false and bad in the movie to be mentioned, the main evil second banana, Pak Chung (?), is shown operating an extremely sophisticated remote electronic guidance system that allows him to drive, at a great distance, a van loaded with explosives. When confronted by Wine, known to Chung as a private detective whose once- again girlfriend his group has beaten to death.....confronted with an obviously angered Wine, with a gun drawn, this clever rascal MAKES A CLUMSY MOVE TO ATTACK AND IS SHOT TO DEATH!. What a truly poorly written, ugly movie.
World's worst hit men? It's daylight in an upscale California suburb but without any inquiry the two "pro" killers start machine gunning......the outside of the house with no one in sight!
Speaking of Eppis, he's being sought for serious crimes committed during *the sixties but is a flamboyant and successful ad man or publicist, hardly a good cover for someone of his notoriety. Oh yes, Eppis is seen, multiple times, in news footage of perhaps no longer than ten years previously. Then he looked a bit like Geraldo Rivera. Well, since in 1974 (the time of the movie, which one character sets by saying, 'I haven't seen so-and-so in six years,since back in '68', Eppis is played by Murray Abraham, he not only must have had plastic surgery, but cranial surgery as well; he doesn't remotely resemble his earlier (and shown) self.
We also have Sam, the campaign manager, very public, very visible, Procari, Jr.(John Lithgow), the son of the wicked, super wealthy, super right wing, Procari, Sr. (Fritz Weaver), who a few years earlier had bankrolled a radical group who apparently committed crimes of such enormity that two their members are in prison for life, no parole. Well, doesn't someone, anyone, recognize the long missing (suposedly) Sam, Procari, Jr.? And speaking of being sent to prison for life, how does Eppis, shown in Federal custody in the sixties and found guilty at the same time as the others, escape being sent to prison? This is never dealt with nor explained.
Wine's two young children are given dialog that no child this side of Hollywood would ever think of saying and the scenes with them and Wine make one reach for one's pistol.
Finally, though there's so much more false and bad in the movie to be mentioned, the main evil second banana, Pak Chung (?), is shown operating an extremely sophisticated remote electronic guidance system that allows him to drive, at a great distance, a van loaded with explosives. When confronted by Wine, known to Chung as a private detective whose once- again girlfriend his group has beaten to death.....confronted with an obviously angered Wine, with a gun drawn, this clever rascal MAKES A CLUMSY MOVE TO ATTACK AND IS SHOT TO DEATH!. What a truly poorly written, ugly movie.