An attempted burglary of a strip club goes awry when one of the three burglars kills a man who draws a gun. This results in the trio taking the dancers and the customers hostage. Why the robbers don't go ahead and escape when the shooting occurs is beyond the viewer. Then all the hostages escape and hide in the club's refrigerator which sort of indicates the intelligence of the stick-up men. Unfortunately, the cops outside are no more intelligent as they stand around outside wondering what to do as one of the strippers who was released crawls back into an extremely large venting system for a small club and rescues the hostages with the help of an ex-cop held inside the club.
Direction
Ric Roman Waugh's debut before becoming a real director; Alan Smithee fake credit.
Writing
Hostages hide in a refrigerator. A stripper crawls through vents. Logic died.
Director
Alan Smithee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Alan Smithee' is a pseudonym used when directors disown their work; Ric Roman Waugh later directed 'Angel Has Fallen' and 'Greenland,' proving recovery is possible.
This exemplifies the mid-90s direct-to-video action boom where any script with guns and a B-list star got greenlit, quality be damned.
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