When certain goods and service can’t be obtained through regular or legal means, the void is filled by organised crime. Protagonist of All’s Fair in Love & War, 1996 action thriller directed by James Tyler, provides one of such services. In Los Angeles, if someone stands in your way, you might remove such impediment if you hire Julian (played by Tyler) and his criminal organisation. Group of businessmen want to get rid of their partner, so they are willing to pay Julian millions of dollars for the assassination. Julian decides to take the job personally, partlially because he became attracted to victim’s beautiful wife Isabel O’Hara (played by Miki O’Brien). What Julian doesn’t know is that his clients, in order to cut their expenses, decided to approach Julian’s former partner and mentor Vinnie Mastrantonio (played by Bill Trillo), with whom Julian had deal about division of territory. It doesn’t take much for the vicious gang war to erupt and, to make things even more complicated for Julian, it turns out that Isabel isn’t as naive and innocent as he had thought.
All’s Fair in Love and War is one of the most obscure low budget 1990s films and its obscurity can be sensed by the fact that its director, main star, co-writer and co-producer is in the film credited as “Satraj Khan” only to be listed as “James Tyler” in IMDb (and 1997 being listed as year or release, despite the film being reviewed in Variety a year earlier). The film looks very much like a vanity production, with single person serving in many functions either to cut costs or to be in complete control. This resulted in not many actual talents being hired nor displayed on screen, but Khan/Tyler nevertheless delivers adequate genre mix of action and erotic thriller, putting as much exploitation content as possible in order to please fans of the both respective genres. That includes not many violent scenes made in slow motions, but also plenty of sex scenes, including the one of lesbian variety. All’s Fair in Love and War often crosses into “it’s so bad that is good” territory and, for the most part, remains there, becoming a “trashy” exploitative film that could be best enjoyed with an opened (and/or) altered mind. In 1998 Satraj Khan directed a sequel under title Love and War II (and with somewhat more notable names like John Lynch and Christopher Mitchum as parts of the cast).
RATING: 5/10 (++)
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