★ 5 / 10
Actually not bad...
paul_m_haakonsen
I had the opportunity to watch the 1996 action thriller "Moving Target" for the first time ever here in 2025. In fact, I had never even heard about it, but…
I had the opportunity to watch the 1996 action thriller "Moving Target" for the first time ever here in 2025. In fact, I had never even heard about it, but then again I wasn't really much of a fan of Michael Dudikoff back in my youth. But as the opportunity came to watch the movie here in 2025, of course I opted to check out what director Damian Lee had to offer.Writers Mark Sevi and Kevin McCarthy put together a script and storyline that actually proved to be entertaining. In fact it was a bit more enjoyable than the usual run-of-the-mill action thrillers that dominated the mid-1990s. I was genuinely entertained throughout the course of the 88 minutes that the movie ran for.Aside from leading actor Michael Dudikoff, the movie also had Billy Dee Williams on the cast list as the only familiar face of the entire cast ensemble. The acting performance in the movie were fair.There is a good amount of action and gunfights throughout the course of the movie, which certainly helped to spruce up the movie.My rating of "Moving Target" lands on a five out of ten stars.
★ 5 / 10
Only the two leads make this worth watching.
tarbosh22000
Sonny McClean (Dude) is a bounty hunter who just wants to find the escaped criminals he's assigned to find, then go home to his pregnant wife, Casey (Johnson).…
Sonny McClean (Dude) is a bounty hunter who just wants to find the escaped criminals he's assigned to find, then go home to his pregnant wife, Casey (Johnson). Of course, she wants him to quit the skip tracer game and get a less dangerous job. Sonny doesn't necessarily disagree - but first he has to disentangle himself from a complex web involving being framed for murder and having to contend with two different factions of the Russian mob. In too deep, Sonny tries to enlist the help of his old buddy Don Racine (Williams), but will it be enough? Using only his wits (well, that and his fists), Sonny will have to fight the mobsters, clear his good name, and get home to his wife on time. Can he do it? The fact that both Michael Dudikoff and Billy Dee Williams are both charming and likable are pretty much the only things that keep Moving Target afloat. Director Damian Lee - responsible for such unmitigated turkeys as Agent Red (2000), and, to be fair, decent movies like Last Man Standing (1987) - imbues the movie with an overall bleak feel, with nothing but cloudy, overcast skies and the bare trees and cold, snowy environs of the Canada all his movies seem to be set in. On top of that, Moving Target takes its sweet time, with some long, meandering bits in between the fight scenes or more relevant scenes. But many of the clichés we've come to know and love are present and accounted for, such as the abandoned warehouse and the prerequisite torture scene (which naturally takes place in the abandoned warehouse).
Speaking of which, Dudikoff does get beat up a lot in this movie. The polar opposite of Seagal (who refuses to be punched or kicked, much less bested in a fight, just like in real life) - Dudikoff is getting wailed on in seemingly every other scene. Perhaps that's what he gets for continuing to be a bounty hunter, because the same year as Moving Target, he was also in Bounty Hunters (1996), with Bounty Hunters 2 (1997) following just a year later. It was fun to see a drunk and slurring Billy December Williams (that was part of his character, we're assuming. And hoping.) - as much as Dudikoff gets beat up, Williams is drunkenly shambling around and swigging a beer. It was unusual for him, and we liked it. Michelle Johnson should have been insulted to play the stereotypical character of the grousing woman. Surely there are better roles for female actors than one-dimensional parts like this. However, she did show us that you can be part of a Lamaze class even if you're not even close to showing with your baby. So that was helpful.
Not to be confused with the Don The Dragon movie of the same name from 2000 (or any other movie by this name), Moving Target features the mindless shooting and relatively inconsequential antics we've come to expect from Damian Lee. Only the two leads make this worth watching. Featuring a catchy song we believe to be called "Rock Me With Your Love" (typically, no artist is credited), Moving Target is hit-or-miss.
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Subs can be found at opensubtitles dot org, I completely resynced a version to this YTS release.