Do Or Die
Here is the turning point of Sidaris.
But keep quiet friends, we aren’t in New York in winter, the main
characters aren’t nerd with little tits and there is nothing
intellectual. No, not at all. We are always in Hawaii, the heroines are
two super secret agents full of silicone and there are firecrackers as
New Year’s Eve.
However, when one is a trash genius, when one is Andy Sidaris, is able
to change story using the same features and the same patterns.
In "Do Or Die" of 1991, the good Sidaris reverses the situation,
putting the two heroines under the constant danger of six teams of
killers, making them also the hunter of the villain who wants to kill
them. A circular situation that also sounds good, but we are in the
"Triple B" (bullets, bombs and babes) and the screenplay is written by
the director himself, and so there are a number of impossible
situations.
Almost without the slightest logical thread, we see the story of
Masakane Kaneshiro "Kane" for friends, dangerous criminal in Bond
movies style that decided to kill the two super agents Donna Hamilton
and Nicole Justin. The villain of obvious Japanese origin is played by
Pat Norita, him, the legendary Mr. Myagi and Arnold of "Happy Days"
that after reaching the top of his career, slips a bit in the oblivion
and is rescue by Sidaris that is a precursor of the casting of
Syfy’s movies.
Actually "Kane" spends more time to massage and get massaged by his
busty oriental assistant, with which occasionally look at the monitor
the movements of his objectives and those of his men. How know where
Donna and Nicole are? Well easy, he just put under the clock of either
a bug that the two super agents, although very clever, find only ten
minutes from the end of the movie.
Easy game for "Kane"? No. Because his teams of killers who must kill
the two girls, are composed by the worse fucking idiot of the US,
clumsy stooges unable to complete the mission and eliminated easily by
Donna, Nicole and friends.
The two are aware of the danger and find in a large group of friends
good helpers. Among these there is Bruce Penhall already seen in "Guns"
who, after the glorious years of the "Chip's" runs on a bike alongside
Erik Estrada back here to play a character good.
The hunting of two women is a tight and triggers an infinite series of
events and consequent explosions and deaths. There isn’t a moment
where nothing happens in "Do or Die" and the slower moments are
represented by soft-core scenes that show the talent of various
cosmetic surgeons.
The ending is a surprise, because after eliminating all the bad our
heroines doesn’t point to "Kane" but leave him free and safe,
with massages and his busty assistant.
Ultra trash episode that reveals several errors, such as guns that shoot too much and absurd death.
The cult scene, that never miss in a Sidaris’ movie, is
represented by a lunch at a restaurant, with two cooks just hired that
welcome Donna, Nicole and friends promising a special dish, because
they are friends of the owner. How the two can know that the group is a
friend of the owner is not clear, but it is clear however that the dish
is poisoned and a poor cat dies for a bite of it.
Aside from all that bad can be said about directing and especially
acting, we have to admit that Andy Sidaris reaches all his goals
creating a good movie for the genre. The director promised bullets,
bombs and babes. And that's what he offers. It is good isn’t?