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  Review by Edith ★★★★½ 13

  You know what you're in for when the bar adorns a portrait of Bogey over the cash register, kaching! I like to assume that movies are recommended to me based on the saxophone, if it squeals as hard as an episode of Law and Order, I know I'm in the right place.

  Tanya Roberts plays a Calamity Jane Biker-type who runs a bar and some backdoor gambling (including some real choice outfits) who becomes friendly with a private investigator. The town is powdered in "snow", shady TV-ad Texan loan sharks, and hunky-dory goons. A lot of these numbers like to run hard on the erotic, but what tickled me is how solidly noir it is, and yet so cheese slamming…

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  Review by single white femalien 4

  the DTV erotic thrillers i end up enjoying most are usually about a vibe more than anything, nothing really concrete, can't exactly put it into words, but this one is brimming with it. it's a wavelength that's hard to reach, both for me and for a movie, especially at the same time. it's the discordant frenetic totally jarring music composed by someone who could only be a sex crazed lunatic on the prowl for victims, it's the trodden matted stained carpeting and a linen closet full of well worn towels (clearly this is a lived in home), it's "re"visiting the same darkened alley throughout the movie in different spread out scenes (a long night? maybe, probably not), it's the women…

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  Review by nomenclature ★★★★½ 1

  When I was kid, my mom had a friend who looked and talked exactly like Tanya Roberts. She'd babysit me and take me places and stuff, I guess because I was a cute kid and she was living a happenin' singles lifestyle and didn't have any children yet. She'd wear a lot of black, had an extra fluffy white cat and her bedroom was all bedecked in frilly pink fabric, just to give you a visual. One time I met her boyfriend and he was this Italian Fabio-looking hunk with a ponytail who barely spoke English (lol). Anyway, I like to look at these Tanya movies as episodes in her dangerous and scandalous backstory that I didn't know about at the time but secretly suspected.

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  Review by Connie Bennett ★★★★

  Smoky bars, makeshift gambling dens and late night burger joints. This has everything I need from an early 90s hazy noir erotic thriller feature. I love it when characters meet by chance and by the evening are dining out together and making plans to solve a mystery. Relationship goals. Plus I was totally digging Tanya’s biker cowgirl wardrobe: ripped jeans, waistcoats, ties, fedoras and cowboy boots. More goals. What an angel. RIP.

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  Review by Justin Wiese ★★★

  Was not quite prepared for just how much of this movie Morton Downey Jr spends in nothing but a Speedo

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  Review by Chuck Dowling ★★

  Tanya Roberts (almost entirely dubbed for some reason) dresses like a leather daddy and runs a regular poker game in a local bar. It has security issues. The bar hires private dick Robert Davi (whose name is literally Fix) to protect the game.

  The movie then veers way off from that specific setup, as Roberts seeks the help of a local lawyer (Morton Downey Jr) for some reason, but he's also a drug dealer and she inadvertently gets mixed up in that. She enlists new friend Davi to help get out of whatever she just got involved with.

  These feels like several movies smashed together, which is a shame because each on their own would be something I'd watch.

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  Review by theschlockpit ★★

  “Throwaway stuff… That said, in Mundhra’s enthusiastic hands, the whole shoddily structured enterprise is confidently tackled.”

  Read Matty’s full review after the jump: 

  theschlockpit.com/2022/02/25/jag-mundhra-legal-tender-1991/

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  Review by MegaMono ★★

  Ive started and stopped this/fell asleep a number of times but finally finished it, and cant say I feel great about the decision. I think I wanted to see if Morton Downey, Jr. ended up getting shot, but instead there was a scene of him floating in a pool chair without a shirt on, so I guess the joke is on me.

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  Review by Jack Raid04 ★★

  More Dirty Cops than Sex oh well

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  Review by Steven Millan ★★★

  The Straight-To-VHS video erotic thriller/genre filmmaking team of director Jag Mundhra(THE OTHER WOMAN,THE JIGSAW MURDERS) and producer Ashok Amritraj(NINE DEATHS OF THE NINJA,MACHETE) decided to combine together the elements of both the erotic thriller and the standard actioner with this lean and mean violent action thriller that has Tanya Roberts(whose husband Barry wrote the screenplay) as a bar owner(with a poker room in the back) whose drug addicted brother(Charles McCaughan) drives her into a financial crisis that forces her to undertake a money loan from a money loan businessman(Morton Downey Jr.[PREDATOR 2,BODY CHEMISTRY 2]) who happens to be a sex addicted ,embezzling psychotic criminal whose murderous henchmen are causing trouble for Roberts,who luckily has her private detective boyfriend(Robert Davi[DIE HARD,THE…