As I continue to prepare for my next convention, I’ve dug up a movie
that’s as bizarre as it is obscure. Aside from being a big fan of
Christopher Lambert, I believe I rented Gunmen back in 1994
because it was an opportunity to see Patrick Stewart out of his Star
Fleet captain’s uniform. Admit it; we’ve all secretly wanted to see
that. Before and since Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Mr. Stewart has portrayed a wide range of characters, but I’ll never
forget Loomis, the fearsome, foul-mouthed, convalescent drug baron
central to the plot of Gunmen.
Gunmen
Loomis (Patrick Stewart), a fearsome, foul-mouthed, convalescent drug baron has been robbed! His bag man Carl hid his 400 million dollars on a boat somewhere in South America and vanished. Loomis enlists hard-ass Armor O’Malley (Denis Leary) and a band of mercs to recover his cheddar for a ten percent finders fee. Elsewhere, New York bounty hunter Cole Parker (Mario Van Peebles) busts Carl’s brother, Dani Servigo (Christopher Lambert), out of a Boa Vista jail. Parker knows the boat’s name, but Dani knows its location and Parker must find it to help the DEA take down Loomis. The lawman and the smuggler form an unlikely, and untrusting, alliance to locate the money before Armor and his crew find them.
Rendezvous...
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