Michael Gold (Brandon Lee) tries to convince Dr. Braun (Ernest Borgnine) to defect to the U.S. before the KGB takes him and his stolen diamond to create a laser. He doesn’t go with him and is captured, which means that a rescue must happen. Gold and Braun’s daughter Alissa (Debi A. Monahan) must find Col. Kalishnakov (Graham Clarke) and get back the weapon, the diamond and the scientist.

Director BJ Davis is a stuntman who has been in so many movies — he did stunts in this — as well as the director of the video for Meat Loaf’s “I’d Lie for You (and That’s the Truth),” which is kind of cool. This has the worst accent ever coming out of Borgnine’s character to the point that I thought he was dubbed. He’s not.

This movie has the most sexist dialogue ever.

Alissa: “What do you want me to do? Get on my knees?”

Gold: “That would be nice.”

This would have been a forgotten movie if Lee hadn’t died. Then it was all over the place on VHS, as it was public domain in the U.S. It’s better than a lot of the other bargain bin action movies from then, but Lee would improve quite a bit by the time he starred in his last movie, The Crow.