Deadly Weapon

1989
PG-13
1h 29m

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Rodney Eastman and Kim Walker in Deadly Weapon (1989)

A teenage boy who's bullied both at school by the seniors and at his home by his abusive father finds an experimental laser weapon in a river and ponders revenge. The army general who lost t... Read allA teenage boy who's bullied both at school by the seniors and at his home by his abusive father finds an experimental laser weapon in a river and ponders revenge. The army general who lost the gun sends his units after the kid.A teenage boy who's bullied both at school by the seniors and at his home by his abusive father finds an experimental laser weapon in a river and ponders revenge. The army general who lost the gun sends his units after the kid.

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4.5/10

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- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Was originally envisioned by executive producer Charles Band as a sequel to Laserblast (1978) but after the fall of Empire Pictures the ideas were recycled.

Connections
Features Pole Position (1982)

Soundtracks
Always On The Run
Performed by Obsession

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Anti-matter or anti-entertainment?

My review was written in July 1989 after watching the movie on TWE video cassette.

"Deadly Weapon" is a failed attempt at a high-concept picture from Charles Band's late fantasy factory, Empire PIctures. Story of a bullied youngster who goes high-tech for revenge went unreleased, inherited, as a video, by TWE.

Debuting helmer Michael Miner exhibits technical skill but does not establish a consistent tone for this mishmash. Rodney Eastman is Zeke, a 15-year-old in the small town of King Bee, Arizona, who thinks he's a visitor from Outer Space, waiting for the Mother Ship to come for him. He finds an anti-matter pistol belonging to the army, lost in a train wreck nearby.

Zeke proceeds to blast his enemies (including his mean daddy) with the formidable revolver and comically rounds up the town preacher, sheriff and mayor, locking them up in the car trunk as he goes joyriding in the thrill-seeking Kim Walker's pink Cadillac convertible.

While the army mobilizes to carefully put Zeke out of commission (the gun's power source can explode like a 200-kiloton bomb), pic turns maudlin en route to a tragic finish.

Eastman displays convincing angst in the central role, with Walker, a beautiful blonde who was one of the "Heathers" in the recent New World release, making a solid impression in an underwritten part. Special effects and other the credits are fine.