Jennifer Sommerfield in Destination Vegas (1995)

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Destination Vegas is a low budget direct to video. About 2/3 of the way through it, I was planning on complementing the film makers on a decent job scripting a film they could do on a low budget.

I was willing to forget that their ex-con Texan (Claude Duhamel) had a Canadian accent, and I was willing to forget that a rich yuppie female lawyer would fall for this ex con. Then they made what, for me, was an unpardonable error. But more about that later.

Missy (Jennifer Sommerfield) is a new junior partner at a law firm whose main client is a fast food chain. She has qualms when her office discovers some loopholes in environmental law that will let the client buy rain forest land, hold it untouched for a year, then clear it to graze cattle.

When she discovers evidence that they also assassinated a South American environmentalist hero to keep a lid on the purchase, she decides to blow the whistle. Her journalist friend is killed by two hit men in her apartment, but she escapes through a bathroom window.

Here is our first credibility problem. The firm is in LA, and has large offices, but, for some reason that is never explained, the purchase contract is to be signed in Las Vegas.

We, of course, know the reason. The entire film is to be a road chase with the two hit men trying to kill her and Duhamel (Texas). Couldn't very well do a chase scene in the hallway of a law office.

We will skip over the part where she steals a truck and shotgun from someone nice enough to pick her up hitchhiking, and the part where she hijacks Texas and his car because she "can't drive and hide at the same time."

We are then treated to incident after incident where the two hit men catch up to them, everyone fires thousands of bullets, nobody gets hit, and the chase is on again, sometimes on foot and sometimes in the cars.

Then they screwed up. Missy and Texas finally had sex on the hood of a junk truck, and the bad guys show up. Texas knocks one unconscious with the old hubcap to the face routine, and Missy shoots the other in the leg. Texas has all of the guns at this point.

Now at every such juncture in the film before this one, Texas took the distributor to coil wire from the bad guys car while they weren't looking. Not only did he forget to do that this time, but he generously left the bad guys guns there.

I could understand a yuppie lawyer not wanting to commit murder, but not her being too stupid to disarm them, disable their car, and maybe even restrain them.

As soon as our heroes take off, the bad guys jump up and resume the chase. In the final scene in the Vegas conference room, they didn't even try to write a coherent scene. They just did about 4 minutes of quick cuts, and shot the bad guys.

Sommerfield is easy on the eyes, and shows a lot of skin throughout with a trick dress that she wore the entire film. They saved a fortune on costumes. She also showed breasts a couple of times, and a nice up-skirt panty shot.

IMDB Summary: 11 IMDB readers (including the two who worked on the film and gave it 10) have it way too high at 5.5 out of 10. There are no reviews that I could find. Give this one a wide berth.

Written by: Tuna ...courtesy of Scoopy.net