RAVEN is a laughable straight-to-video action thriller starring the one and only Burt Reynolds, here on the cusp of renewed stardom with his acclaimed role in the following year's BOOGIE NIGHTS. Before that, it appears he was reduced to making any old tat, and RAVEN is a good example of that. Reynolds plays the leader of a team of mercenaries engaged in a hilarious, ten-minute over-the-top action sequence at the film's outset, indebted to COMMANDO with endless scenes of bad guys being blown into the air by explosions right behind them and slow-mo gunfire. Sadly things quickly become boring after this point. Reynolds goes from hero to villain to hero again but there's no real interest in his underutilised character and the wooden Matt Battaglia has way too much screen time. A few beautiful women are all you get here. Things pick up again in the last ten minutes but it's far too late by that point.
Review of Raven
