A plotline copied from straight-faced action films like Coogan's Bluff and Trackdown (a bit more Trackdown, but in the setting of Coogan's Bluff); a trendy soirée appropriated from Midnight Cowboy; a standard collection of hicks-in-the-city jokes: ordering a meal at the Waldorf ("You got any Popsicles?") and causing the cellist in the classical chamber ensemble to grow faint from obscene tongue gestures. The climactic chase scene in which our rodeo-rider heroes run down a rush-hour commuter train on stolen police horses has a definite melodramatic flair. But throughout, Kiefer Sutherland's tight-lipped straight arrow unfortunately takes a back seat to Woody Harrelson's crowing-cock yahoo. And the always likable Ernie Hudson is practically back of the bus as an NYPD mountie who has a soft spot for the lore of the Wild West ("Round up a posse, boys!"). So soft, in fact, that he only smiles benignly when Harrelson crashes a pickup truck through the front window of a crowded nightclub ("It's the cowboy way"). Nor does he frown even once over the knightly quest of our heroes: to rescue an illegal (repeat: illegal) Cuban immigrant from the clutches of modern-day slave traders, and then to send her off into the welcoming arms of the American West. What world are these filmmakers living in? With Dylan McDermott; directed by Gregg Champion. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd