Cut and Run (1985)

Well, it certainly gives good violence. As would be expected from Ruggero Deodato (the pleasant fellow who gave the world Cannibal Holocaust), the notorious violent sequences in this film (conspicuously edited for American release) are stunning and hyperbolic in their view of the human body as a sack of organs that exists only to be spectacularly destroyed. There's one shot in particular involving a man being torn in half that will just make your jaw drop. So with this in mind, I can only imagine how unbearably awful the edited version is, since this film's violence is its only selling point. The plot proper is some murky nonsense about a missing boy, some warring drug cartels and a reporter who wants an interview with some guy who used to be Jim Jones's right hand man. Characters drift in and out with alarming frequency. When Richard Lynch shows up at the end, apparently doing a summer-stock version of Colonel Kurtz, I could only throw my hands up in defeat. This film is shit that passes by in a cocaine-clouded haze... but hey, how about that violence?

Grade: C-