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Vice Squad
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Marriage, Hotdogs, I'm deliberating on keeping these parts in the reviews.
Yo. I'm back, and and to kick it off we're hitting up some 80s B-movie sludge.
This honestly wasn't quite as campy as I expected, but it's a little bit quirky in it's own way. The Hollywood Vice Squad is out and about and comes across the body of Main Girl's BFF, an obvious victim of the notoriously violent sexual abuser and psychopath "Ramrod". Vice Squad offers Main Girl a deal to round off some drug charges by offering herself as a prostitute to Ramrod to help in a sting operation.
It's kind of a weird setup here and it's not altogether clear who our primary protagonist is for several minutes and by the time Ramrod is captured and escapes setting off the chase that makes the majority of the movie, I feel like a good chuck of it's already elapsed. Part of that could probably be blamed on the false opening in which Main Girl is portrayed as an upperclass privileged woman who for reasons I couldn't glean must sobbingly pass offer her daughter to her housekeeper/servant/friend/token black maid and then totally break character revealing herself to be a prostitute in butt**** Hollywood. Okay. This ability to act recurs later in the story, but this bit of plotting seems needless all things said.
While Ramrod's a step behind Main Girl and Vice is a step behind Ramrod, we follow their effort to catch up to their marks while Main Girl goes on a vaguely amusing sequence of hookups where she either outright blows off the person she's supposed to blow, or knowingly indulges her clients' peculiar circumstances or fetishes. She seems to gravitate to your slightly desperate watersports enthusiast or foot fetishist before noping out on a guy trying to deliver "a whole convention". Still, she crosses the line when she's elaborately escorted to a manor, put in a wedding dress, and then jumpscared by an old man in a coffin with some shrill ****awful voice who apparently thinks it ruins the mood when SHE speaks. Righto grandpa.
I kinda wish she gave a little more consideration to the polite butler's clumsy attempt at a rebound **** though.
ANYWAY, Ramrod eventually shows up and he's beaten a few people and castrated a pimp on the way there, he takes Main Girl to a warehouse, straps her to a bed, starts tying up a wirehangar and makes to whip her in a manor that somehow killed Main Girl's friend at the beginning of the movie? I dunno how that works. I get the genital mutilation bit, that's explicitly stated, but whipping her with a wire hanger seems pretty tame when he's the sort of nutjob to tear through a backdrop and greet you with a literal noose.
Ramrod was easily the most interesting character in the movie, just cause he's so constantly intense, but he lacks the REALLY out there mannerisms that would push him into full on cartoon.
Cops show up, Ramrod dies, it's pretty anticlimactic honestly, the whole movie feels like a stock episode of CSI: Miami or something, but without all the forensic stuff.
Overall, the movie was pretty meh.
Final Verdict: [Meh...]
Vice Squad
Crime Drama / English / 1982
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Someone recommended it here, I forget who. Supposedly has an over-the-top villain. It's been on my watchlist for a while.
WHAT'D I THINK? *SPOILERS*
WHAT'D I THINK? *SPOILERS*
"No one wants to have straight sex anymore."
Marriage, Hotdogs, I'm deliberating on keeping these parts in the reviews.
Yo. I'm back, and and to kick it off we're hitting up some 80s B-movie sludge.
This honestly wasn't quite as campy as I expected, but it's a little bit quirky in it's own way. The Hollywood Vice Squad is out and about and comes across the body of Main Girl's BFF, an obvious victim of the notoriously violent sexual abuser and psychopath "Ramrod". Vice Squad offers Main Girl a deal to round off some drug charges by offering herself as a prostitute to Ramrod to help in a sting operation.
It's kind of a weird setup here and it's not altogether clear who our primary protagonist is for several minutes and by the time Ramrod is captured and escapes setting off the chase that makes the majority of the movie, I feel like a good chuck of it's already elapsed. Part of that could probably be blamed on the false opening in which Main Girl is portrayed as an upperclass privileged woman who for reasons I couldn't glean must sobbingly pass offer her daughter to her housekeeper/servant/friend/token black maid and then totally break character revealing herself to be a prostitute in butt**** Hollywood. Okay. This ability to act recurs later in the story, but this bit of plotting seems needless all things said.
While Ramrod's a step behind Main Girl and Vice is a step behind Ramrod, we follow their effort to catch up to their marks while Main Girl goes on a vaguely amusing sequence of hookups where she either outright blows off the person she's supposed to blow, or knowingly indulges her clients' peculiar circumstances or fetishes. She seems to gravitate to your slightly desperate watersports enthusiast or foot fetishist before noping out on a guy trying to deliver "a whole convention". Still, she crosses the line when she's elaborately escorted to a manor, put in a wedding dress, and then jumpscared by an old man in a coffin with some shrill ****awful voice who apparently thinks it ruins the mood when SHE speaks. Righto grandpa.
I kinda wish she gave a little more consideration to the polite butler's clumsy attempt at a rebound **** though.
ANYWAY, Ramrod eventually shows up and he's beaten a few people and castrated a pimp on the way there, he takes Main Girl to a warehouse, straps her to a bed, starts tying up a wirehangar and makes to whip her in a manor that somehow killed Main Girl's friend at the beginning of the movie? I dunno how that works. I get the genital mutilation bit, that's explicitly stated, but whipping her with a wire hanger seems pretty tame when he's the sort of nutjob to tear through a backdrop and greet you with a literal noose.
Ramrod was easily the most interesting character in the movie, just cause he's so constantly intense, but he lacks the REALLY out there mannerisms that would push him into full on cartoon.
Cops show up, Ramrod dies, it's pretty anticlimactic honestly, the whole movie feels like a stock episode of CSI: Miami or something, but without all the forensic stuff.
Overall, the movie was pretty meh.