Review: Death Kiss

If you're considering Death Kiss as a weekend watch with a couple of liquor drinks, and you think there's something familiar about its star, Robert Kovacs, you're right. The man looks a hell of a lot like the late, great Charles Bronson.

I'm sure writer/director Rene Perez was counting on that when he cast Kovacs in this flick, which is itself an homage to the kind of movies Bronson made when he'd set up shop at Cannon Films, a company that churned out a lot of this stuff.

Your ability to enjoy Death Kiss depends on whether or not you can embrace this man in a movie like this; one that wears its heart on its sleeve with its riffs on crime and how justice should be dealt.

Me being me, I was A-OK with that. Perez has something to say, and I dig it. And he's given audiences the kind of movie I grew up with. One with lots of shooting and violence, hot women who show their breasts, and a classic tough guy doing what tough guys did back in the day . . . when tough guys existed.

They don't anymore, which is also what Perez is saying.

This isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination. But it's still a decent Saturday or Sunday night watch -- with liquor drinks -- for those who want some old-school entertainment featuring an actor who looks like Charles Bronson. I'm giving it a Bad, as I won't watch it again, but I will recommend it as a curiosity piece.

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