Intent to Kill, Traci Lords in a NC-17 Shoot 'Em Up

Traci Lords in a PG movie? Nah! Traci Lords in a Rated R movie? Sure!  Traci Lords in a NC-17 movie? Heck yes! NC-17 for gratuitous violence, blood, and suggestive eroticism. Gratuitous violence? The death count is in the thousands. Most of the LAPD is wiped out by machineguns and explosions. Most of the city's drug dealers are wiped out the same way. Traci Lords? Keeps her gun tucked inside her fishnets on her inner thigh. Now, go see "The Devil Wears Prada 2" if you're a wuss.  If you're a real man, see our feature today. Today we look at the uber violent and gratuitously gratuitous "Intent to Kill" from 1992, directed by Charles T. Kanganis.

As the film begins, Vicki (Lords) is getting glammed up. Shiny black bra, fishnets, garters...and a silver gun tucked into those fishnets. She'll go undercover as a whore and be picked up by a limo occupied four times. Sal (Angelo Tiffe) figures out she is a cop when he probes his knife under her leather miniskirt. A big shootout occurs...dozens die, and the limo blows up and Sal's stash is seized by Vicki.  On the case is Vicki's live-in BF and partner, Al (Scott Patterson). He's a two-timer and Vicki will eventually figure this out. Now Sal's boss will murder Sal if he does not replace the cocaine he lost. Sal goes on a rampage and murders anyone who  gets in his way in search of more cocaine. Vicki is disciplined and taken off the case. 

Vicki's a good cop and develops informants that will get her Sal.  Now Al seeks to undermine Vicki, as Vicki blew up his car. Uh oh...Sal gets scared as he can't steal enough blow to replace the lost stash...so he raids the police station, kills every cop in there, and steals his own stuff from evidence.  Now Vicki is mad, as her new beau (Michael M. Foley) was one of those cops.  Vicki has a lead on Sal's GF, Mia (Elena Sahagun)...and hopes she will lead her to Sal. What follows are a thousand more killings, explosions, one heck of a car chase, and an ending that will change the way you look at action/cop films.

Traci Lords is great...tough and alluring.  She looks great in fishnets and garters as well as armed with shotguns, revolvers, and pistols.  This straight to video release is a must see as Vicki is cut from the same cloth as Dirty Harry, and the carnage is right out of 1984's "The Terminator." For a sexy and vicious crime thriller, wit allure and gore, see "Intent to Kill."