A jungle gun-fest that's hardly worth a backward glance, LAST FLIGHT TO HELL's fuzzy photography, cheesy action and languid performances add up to a bottom-shelf direct-to-video release.
Mitch Taylor (Reb Brown) is a Drug Enforcement Agency commando in Southeast Asia to catch mafia narcotics middleman Vince Dugan and bring him back alive. But a Chinese crimelord grabs Dugan first for "exploiting our soil." Taylor follows Dugan's oblivious, rape-prone daughter Sheila (Michele
Dehne) as she goes to deliver the ransom. Myriad perils culminate in the revelation that Taylor's tough-talking boss Red Farley (Chuck Connors, who swears a blue streak) is himself on the mob's payroll. It's Dugan who ends up saving Taylor's life, and then honorably submits himself to America's
criminal justice system. "Anyway," he explains, "with a good lawyer I'm out in six months."
So low is LAST FLIGHT TO HELL's budget that even a lowly truck has to drive out of sight behind a convenient shack before it explodes, although the titular flight does crash impressively in a valley of rubbery snakes. (Violence, profanity, adult situations.) leave a comment
