Malta is the location for this Jean-Claude Van Damme martial arts thriller, in which the Muscles from Brussels plays a KGB killing machine intent on seizing a laser guidance system lost in a US jet fighter crash.
Of course, there’s the little matter of high-kicking CIA hero Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi) – codename “Black Eagle” – wanting to lay his mitts on it, too.
Directed with undue fuss and maximum noise by Eric Karson, this action fest is a far cry from the world of passwords and microdots.
Ken Tani
Sho Kosugi Andrei
Jean-Claude Van Damme Patricia Parker
Doran Clark Vladimir Klimenko
Vladimir Skomarovsky Father Joseph Bedelia
Bruce French Natasha
Dorota Puzio Valery
Jan Triska Dean Rickert
William Bassett Steve Henderson
Gene Davis
Director
Eric Karson
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