The Underground (1997)

Instant Favorite.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Better Late Then Never

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Do not watch this movie it is a joke, Jeff Fahey is OK but the rest of the cast are awful. The plot is silly, the acting is terrible apart from Fahey. I was very disappointed as it could of been a good movie and im a big fan of B movies but this just takes the biscuit. Even the stunts are bad, for me a movie don't have to be perfect by any means but i simply could not tolerate this even though i sat through the entire movie. All i can really say is avoid this flick it has nothing to offer witch is a big shame with Jeff Fahey looking very cool as the burnt out cop delivering some justice for his dead partner. Shame shame shame.......

"The Underground" is another guilty pleasure from PM Entertainment. The plot: Fahey plays Brian Donnegan, a clichéd cop character who has to stop the killings of rap stars. He gets in too deep after his partner is killed. Now he stop the murders any way possible. He's doin' it freestyle...Because this is PM flick, you can expect good stunts. The pyrotechnics are cool and the car chase at the end is a blast. Jeff Fahey puts in an emotionless performance, but it works. The plot is silly and the dialogue worse, but that's part of the B-movie fun. If you like this one, I also recommend "Hologram Man". In the end: If you like Jeff Fahey (and who doesn't...) or PM movies (and who doesn't...), check this one out.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Jeff Fahey stars in this amusing little addition to the extensive catalogue of action output from PM Entertainment. As with all output by the PM guys, you can therefore rest assured on lots of super cool car chases, fights, shooting and explosions will ensue and sure enough, this entry doesn't disappoint. What really makes this stand out though is the bizarre and somewhat ridiculous plot which involves a seventies disco group who take revenge upon a former fellow member after he makes the huge mistake of sampling some of their old material into modern gangster rap tracks(!!!!!!!) Well, how can anyone not warm to such an hilariously daft story line?Fahey turns in an incredibly laid back performance yet nonetheless, is great fun to watch as always and his new partner played by Michael Mcfall, is similarly entertaining in a role that had the budget been bigger, might have gone to Samuel Jackson.Well, what more can be said? If you've ever watched anything from the PM guys before, you'll know exactly what to expect and if you haven't yet had the pleasure of a PM release then why not take this opportunity to try one?

Jeff Fahey stars as a mean spirited cop who hates hip hop (Something he shares in common with me.) however when various rappers are being murdered, it becomes obvious that someone has a vendetta against The Hound a renegade producer who plays hardball with various rappers (Willie Carpenter) however it's not him, rather it goes all the way back to the hound's disco roots. However what really ticks Jeff Fahey off is that his partner (Kenneth Tigar) is killed in the shootout. Fahey swears vengeance and along the way defines disco inferno. I myself was always into heavy metal, so I was never much for Hip Hop, however The Underground takes it's fairly silly plot and somehow makes it even more gleefully moronic than it sounds. However the silliness here is amplified by the clichés such as Fahey's troubled marriage with a supermodel. (Oh boy.) A new partner who is more into the hip hop scene and a disco villain so laughably improbable it just becomes enjoyable in a guilty pleasure way. Picking this up in the bargain bin section, in what marks as my binge into unknown PM titles that you find for 4.99, this has to be the silliest of all the PM titles. For goodness sake the villain is a ticked off disco artist, so that alone is why I love it. Jeff Fahey though seems out of place though, the movie would've been better with a younger actor, still I love it.* * out of 4-(Fair)