L.A. Bounty Reviews

Buxom B-movie queen Sybil Danning stars as Ruger, an ex-cop turned bounty hunter, in this lifeless thriller. The film begins as a prominent Los Angeles mayoral candidate (Robert Hanley) is kidnaped by a group of drug dealers led by Cavanaugh (Wings Hauser), an insane artist. The candidate's wife (Lenore Kasdorf) joins up with Ruger as the bounty hunter pursues Cavanaugh. It seems that Ruger has a score to settle: her failure to arrest Cavanaugh and his cohorts when she was a cop resulted in the death of her partner, and now she wants revenge. L.A. BOUNTY is a sloppily structured, poorly executed B movie with tedious "action" sequences and soporific set pieces. Danning, who can be entertaining, here provides a stiff, unconvincing female alternative to Clint Eastwood. Limited to six lines of dialog, she spends the entire film in a stone-faced stupor, waltzing into scenes carrying automatic weapons and leaving behind dead bodies. Although it is nicely photographed, the story is so predictable, choppy, and badly directed that the film is never entertaining.