This is a chop-their-limbs-off action film but, to its credit, it's one that tries hard, and often successfully, to keep a sense of humour running through its mayhem. Rutger Hauer is the blind Vietnam vet with quite impossible prowess with a sword, handed an equally impossible assignment in escorting a nine-year-old boy to his father. The boy's also wanted by Nevada gangsters, who have just killed his mother and need the boy to force his chemist father (Terrance O'Quinn) into the drugs business. Director Phillip Noyce, tongue firmly in cheek, keeps the action-packed journey as lively as you could wish. Two of the villains are called Lyle and Tector (after the brothers in The Wild Bunch) and the gangsters' secret weapon at the end turns out to be master screen swordsman Sho Kosugi. 'I'm gonna put that blind man in a wheelchair,' grinds Tector. No chance!

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