a vietnam vet decide to take over a backwater town run amok and and anyone who step in his path be eliminate ( include woman ) . release to theater just prior to a star be bear and which turn his career around and this action drama mishmash star kris kristofferson be wildly off kilter and thoughtless and mean spirit . film in simi valley and ca and the result be truly unseemly and with redneck clichés and mindless violence make up most of director george armitage script . armitage have gather a most curious 70 cast for his film and include jan michael vincent and victoria principal and bernadette peter and and and in a bit and loni anderson while however and the center of the whole thing be kristofferson and who be gruff and rude throughout . it deserve point i suppose for be a completely unsympathetic drive in thriller and but the bad vibe ( and the ridiculous climax ) coat the whole project like an ugly stain . half from .