Cocaine Wars Reviews

Schneider is a top Drug Enforcement Agency man working undercover as a cocaine-running pilot in this below-average action film. Drug czar Luppi has Schneider's partner killed for allegedly stealing from him. Later he approaches Schneider with an offer: $200,000 to assassinate a rising liberal newspaper editor and political candidate (Vitaly) whose platform calls for the elimination of the drug trade. Schneider refuses and, while dodging inept attempts on his life, sets the wheels in motion that will destroy Luppi's empire. There's nothing especially offensive here. The technical credits are passable, the production values are adequate, and Schneider is a little better than he absolutely must be--but the whole thing is just boring from beginning to end, never generating any particular interest in its hero, in what he's up to, or in the film. The only audiences for this kind of minor exploitation item are those easily duped by a lurid title and a picture of a guy with an assault rifle in one hand and a sexy girl on the other.