Action Jackson

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Cast

Carl Weathers

as Sgt. Jericho 'Action' Jackson

Craig T. Nelson

as Peter Dellaplane

Vanity

as Sydney Ash

Sharon Stone

as Patrice Dellaplane

Thomas F. Wilson

as Officer Kornblau

Robert Davi

as Tony Moretti

Bill Duke

as Capt. Earl Armbruster

Jack Thibeau

as Detective Kotterwell

Roger Aaron Brown

as Officer Lack

Stan Foster

as Albert Smith

Reviews

JPV852

Poor man's action-comedy from the 80s tries so hard to make Carl Weathers a star and while he can have his charms, he's saddled with awful one-liners that even for the time were bad, and not at all funny. Rather thin story which is fine but the action/fights were basic and Weathers shared very littl...

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