Where to watch Tough and Deadly
2 1/2 Stars
Elmo Freech is a private investigator and was contracted by John Portland, a CIA agent who suffers amnesia, in oder to reveale a dubious case of drug smuggling in which are involved big fishes of the CIA and from Washington.
The screen pairing of Roddy Piper and Billy Blanks is effective in this buddy cop yarn. Well, it’s kind of a buddy cop picture; expect that Piper is a bounty hunter and Blanks is a former covert government agent who is suffering from amnesia, but you get the point. The well-established template provided by 48 Hours, or Lethal Weapon, of matching two bickering, racially diverse actors was already old-hat by the time Tough and Deadly hit video store shelves halfway through the nineties. But the formula works, particularly due to the easygoing and frankly charming presence of Roddy Piper.
Directed by: Steve Cohen
Written by: Steve Cohen, Otto C. Pozzo (story), Otto C. Pozzo
Starring: Billy Blanks, Roddy Piper, Richard Norton, Charles Kahlenberg