Blowback

An effort to satirize the CIA, BLOWBACK is an adolescent feature, too silly to take seriously and too awkward to be enjoyable, in which as much care seems to have been taken with photographing nubile go-go dancers as with the script.

"Blowback" is a spy term that refers to the unexpected and uncontrollable results of a clandestine operation--in this case, the virtual explosion of domestic drug dealing, fueled, in part, by CIA-sponsored narcotics trade in Central America. CIA agent Owen Monroe (Bruce McCarty), a robot-like patriot who mouths platitudes, is sent to Miami to ensure nothing is learned of his employer's illicit activities.

In Miami, the scene c...