Reception
Hyper's Daniel Wilks criticises the film for having "only vaguely interconnected action scenes punctuated by some rather dull talkiness marred by horrible accents (the heroine is unconvincingly British and the childish sidekick speaks with a mangled Mexican drawl)". Ironically, as the film was dubbed in Britain, the aforementioned heroine is a genuine British person.
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