Nic Cage gives one of the worst southern accents to the point it's hilarious watching him in retrospect, but it's also one of the most badass performances you're going to see. The script isn't great, but Cage's performance is so good that you instantly fall in love with Poe and they build his good guy character up well enough that you can buy this guy is willing to give up his freedom and life to help this female officer and diabetic man he met just that day. The movie also surprisingly juggles really heavy subject matters very well. The scene where Danny Trejo's character is about to sexually assault the female officer is genuinely tension filled and then the other scene where Steve Buscemi finds the little girl and you don't know for a while if he killed her not is really interesting. Overall the 80s and 90s made the best action movies and movies like this that I've seen probably 50 times and I smile each time I watch it is proof of this. Probably the only good movie Simon West ever made.