Explosive
Summary
With even more explosions, shootouts, and nudity than Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Picasso Trigger is every bit as fun as its predecessor, but it still doesn’t give Harold Diamond a lead role. Most of the time, he walks around, lifts weights, or takes girls’ shirts off, but if you’re hoping to see more kick fighting action from him, you’ll have to seek elsewhere.
Plot: With his brother eliminated by operatives of the L.E.T.H.A.L. team, a world-class crime lord will trigger a ruthless hunt against all Agents.
Review: Playboy models Donna Spier and Hope Marie Carlton return as action-tastic spies Donna and Taryn in Andy Sidaris’ Picasso Trigger, which is more or less the same movie as Hard Ticket to Hawaii, but with some more characters thrown into the mix. This time, Donna and Taryn start off in Paris, hunting for an elusive work of art known as “The Picasso Trigger,” but in reality The Picasso Trigger is an assassin named Salazar, and another secret agent named Travis (played by Steve Bond) is on his trail, and when they both end up in Hawaii, the plot then includes Donna, Taryn, and kickboxer Jade (Harold Diamond from Killing American Style), who join in the adventure.
With even more explosions, shootouts, and nudity than Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Picasso Trigger is every bit as fun as its predecessor, but it still doesn’t give Harold Diamond a lead role. Most of the time, he walks around, lifts weights, or takes girls’ shirts off, but if you’re hoping to see more kick fighting action from him, you’ll have to seek elsewhere. That said, he does have a great fight scene in the movie where he kicks a dude in the face so hard, he flies out of a window and falls fifty stories to his death. The last scene of the film shows all of the heroes laughing like the end of a cartoon episode. Watch quickly for Keith Cooke (as Keith Hirabayashi) in a small role. The next movie in the series is Savage Beach, which had roles for James Lew and Al Leong.
Mill Creek seems intent on filling our proverbial stockings with all 12 of Andy Sidaris’ epic “Bullets, Bombs, and Babes” movies, and their Blu-ray release of Picasso Trigger has been restored in a 4K widescreen transfer, which is the best it’s ever looked. It comes with an audio commentary, a behind the scenes feature, and trailers. Looking forward to their release of Guns and Do or Die …
