Traxx (1988)
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.
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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
I was clever enough to purchase this title on VHS after I caught an airing of it back in the eighties. I have seen it at least half a dozen times since then, and just watched it again with my husband and nineteen-year-old son. We were all laughing hysterically all the way through the film. I was afraid it would not have held up after all these years, but my fears were completely unfounded. We add our voices to those who would dearly like to see this released in a higher quality format. Such an offbeat delight! My favorite scene is the GMC "product placement moment, I think.... :-) I look forward to eventually sharing it with my fourteen- year-old, but it is still a little over the top in the violence/adult theme arena, even given the highly satirical context. Shadoe Stevens is phenomenal as Traxx -- his smile alone would redeem a bad storyline -- and since the scriptwriting hits exactly the right note with my sense of humor, the smile is just a bonus. If you can manage to find a copy, and have a well-developed sense of the absurd, see this movie! If you have no sense of humor, avoid it like the plague!
Is it brilliant? The best darn parody since "Airplane"? Nah. But me and my drunken undergrad buddies thought it was funny enough to rent it more than a couple of times back in the early '90s. And I wouldn't mind another look at it, I tell you what. It was funny enough for an evening. Better than the average sitcom anyway. Gosh. Apparently, I need to write 10 lines. But this little movie is not really worth an additional character study, plot analysis or other academic exercises. It was fun but no more essential than this useless padding.
For anyone to really enjoy this wacky movie...i think you have to be just as wacky. The acting i think is rather good but the movie looks as if they have trimmed it down somewhat. Then again it could be just the budget maybe. Reminds me of Legend when i first seen it..... hmmmmmm LOL . I love this movie as it has some of the funniest moments and lines that you can only hear in it. i won't quote anything from it as this site has everything you need to know about it. If you love movies like loaded weapon...then chance a rental if you can find it. You won't be disappointed !!!
The only funny part of this movie that I can remember is when the Guziks are in the back of a limo and the reactions on the driver's face in the mirror is just CLASSIC! Unfortunately, he winds up dead and Robert Davi kicks him as he asks what happened. The original credits listed him as "Eric Tilley... Dead Limo Driver". Why isn't he listed in the credits here? Maybe he thought better of it after he saw the finished product...