MVD Entertainment Group
has tabbed Aug. 28 for the Blu-ray debut of director Albert Pyun’s 1997
all-star post-Soviet Union collapse crime thriller, Crazy Six.
This new Hi-Def
presentation will be the next addition to the company’s newly-launched “Marquee
Collection” series, which includes Autumn in New York and Pyun’s Blast!
both on Aug. 28, as well as Dwayne Johnson starring in the remake of Walking
Tall on Aug. 14.
With the fall of the
Soviet Union and the sudden “freedom” of the Warsaw Pack countries of Eastern
Europe, organized crime elements see an opportunity to move into the “Wild
East.” Crazy Six brings three separate mob
crime groups to Czechoslovakia (filmed in and around Bratislava and the Danube
River) where they find themselves immediately in conflict.
One loosely-knit group is
headed by the drug-addicted Billie, who is best known to his criminal
associates as “Crazy Six” (played by Rob Lowe), while another syndicate is run
by Dirty Mao (Mario Van Peebles) and yet a third is headed up by the devious
Raul (Ice-T), who is the post powerful of them all.
Basically it breaks down
to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of thing, and an uneasy alliance
is formed between Crazy Six and Dirty Mao to push Raul and his thugs out of
this new, and potentially very lucrative market.
OK, got the picture … now
slowly count to ten. Once you reach
ten, which is about how long it takes for everyone to turn on each other, the
bloodbath begins. Toss in some stolen plutonium
and that gets the Feds involved, including an agent by name of Dakota (played
by none other than Burt Reynolds).
While filmmaker Albert
Pyun makes Crazy Six more or less an all-action shoot’em-up, the basic
story — and criminal intrigues in the post-Soviet era — turned out to be pretty
insightful.
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