HARD VICE is a police procedural drama dirtied up to satisfy the direct-to-video market. Its two-dimensional characters and cliched situations are offset by snappy camera moves, pungent locker room dialogue, and some sneaky variations on the basic serial-killer-on-a-rampage plot.
A killer is terrorizing Las Vegas, and suspicion falls upon a hooker whose satisfied customers keep turning up dead. Cocky baseball player-turned-cop Joe Owens (Sam Jones) considers it a demotion when Chief of Police Bronski (James Gammon) teams him up with the Vice Squad triumvirate of Andrea
(Shannon Tweed), Bugs (Miguel Nunez), and Mike (Tom Fridley). Before Andrea and Joe eventual...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins