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I enjoyed director Nico Mastorakis' action packed "Nightmare at Noon", so when I found a copy of his action movie "Hired to Kill" in a thrift store, I bought it with the expectation I would be getting more of the same. Boy, was I surprised - and not in a good way. I can excuse the plot of the movie being a blatant rip-off of "The Dirty Dozen", since it is still a good premise after all of those years, and Mastorakis put in the twist of the people being hired by Brian Thompson's character all being women. However, despite that twist, the character are unbearable. Thompson is extremely curt and grumpy all the way through, and his female mercenaries are given next to no development with their characters. They all act alike and are completely interchangeable. As for the major talent, George Kennedy obviously knocked off all his scenes in a couple of days or so, and Oliver Reed obviously knocked off several drinks before his scenes were filmed.You might be saying, "I don't really care about that stuff - all I'm interested in are some good action sequences." Well, even if you have that viewpoint, you'll be disappointed with this movie. Believe it or not, the first 70 or so minutes are pretty much action free. The last 20 or so minutes do have some action, but except for a few cool looking explosions, the action is generic and nothing special at all. It's certainly not worth the wait.To sum up, this is just one of many lame straight to video action movies released during the 1990s. Even those who like B movies and can often forgive their shortcomings - and I am such a person - will find this hard to sit through.

A fashion photographer (Brian Thompson) and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader. The director describes it as "Magnificent Seven" with women.This is really the height of 1990s cheese. It has the sensibility of a 1980s action film, and that is not surprisingly since it was probably filmed in 1989. All the excess and over-the-top things you expect. Brian Thompson may not be Stallone or Schwarzenegger, but he knows what to do in this sort of role. Is he a cheesy actor? Very much... his delivery of lines is pretty rough. Apparently, he was the director's son-in-law at the time, possibly explaining his casting.Oliver Reed appears, and it has been a few years since he was the big star of "The Brood" or "Curse of the Werewolf" (among his many other achievements). The most notable thing about his role in this film is a very big mustache that makes him almost unrecognizable. The director freely describes him as a "hostile drunk" who abused his wife; he was gentle when sober, but he was rarely sober. Thompson concurs saying, "I never saw Oliver Reed sober."Besides the excellent 2K restoration, the Arrow Video release includes audio commentary with editor Barry Zetlin (who has a very impressive resume of horror and cult films and talks at length about his career), and brand new interviews with director Nico Mastorakis and star Brian Thompson.

I love this director. First, he gave us Island of Death, an utterly outrageous and hilarious piece of video nasty trash. Then, after thinking that was the only film he'd ever made, I found myself watching Nightmare at Noon, a Crazies style film with plenty of action and hoots. Now, I've sat through Hired to Kill, and although it's not as good as those two films, it still has plenty of daftness to keep my attention.Brian Thompson is one of those secret service types hired to infiltrate a despotic country and overthrow dictator Oliver Reed, but not just that, he's got to do it posing as a gay fashion designer with an entourage of special forces beauties posing as models. So it's kind of like the dirty dozen remade by Vogue magazine, including the obligatory training scene, and the obligatory fashion model shoot. No wonder Oliver Reed looks perplexed (and a little bit toasted in a couple of scenes).This is all pretty fun stuff, but there's a lack of action for the first hour or so. Still, there's the standout scene where Oliver Reed checks whether or not Thompson is actually gay or not which had me in stitches. I'm not even sure Reed was expecting to be kissed by Thompson because his surprise seems pretty genuine. Great stuff.

This is a movie with cult potential.Brian Thompson(in a rare leading role.)is the misogynistic soldier of fortune called on to lead an army of seven beautiful fashion models/ mercenaries to rescue an imprisoned leader from a despotic regime.Good supporting cast in the shape of the late Oliver Reed and Jose Ferrar.It also features a gay kiss scene(of sorts) between Reed and Thompson!The dialogue is cliched, but the action is good.The girls look as if they escaped from a Robert Palmer video.Good voyeuristic fun!