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ROYCE
Rod Holcomb, 1994

Our rating: 2


An unsophisticated made-for-cable spy picture about a good-
natured agent who goes after his renegade partners, *Royce* 
has Bondian aspirations constrained by low-budget 
realities.

After liberating hostages from Bosnia, secret agent Shane 
Royce (James Belushi) is informed that the end of the Cold 
War has made his covert section redundant. Gribbon (Miguel 
Ferrer), a fellow spy angry over the prospect of 
unemployment, recruits his old partners for a money-making 
scheme that would exact revenge on Senator Scanlon (Michael 
J. Shannon), who is responsible for the elimination of 
their operation. When Royce refuses to join them, the 
renegades try to kill him, but only succeed in framing him 
for the murder of another agent.

Royce escapes from police and hooks up with his CIA contact 
Huggins (Peter Boyle), to whom he explains the plot against 
Sen. Scanlon. Royce arrives at Scanlon's house, but he's 
too late: Gribbon has kidnapped Scanlon's son and is 
tailing the senator to Russia, where he is to attend a 
ceremonial exchange of nuclear warheads. When Royce tracks 
down Gribbon in Russia, he discovers that the renegade 
agent intends to steal the warheads and sell them to a drug 
cartel. Gribbon's henchmen capture Royce as he tries to 
rescue Scanlon's son, and then seize a train carrying the 
warheads. Gribbon rigs the train so that it will explode as 
it pulls into a station where Sen. Scanlon and a number of 
Russian dignitaries are waiting. Dispatching several 
members of the gang with a hand grenade, Royce escapes and 
boards the train. After an extended fight, Royce saves the 
day by attaching a bomb to Gribbon's body as the villain 
bolts from the train. 

*Royce's* few successful moments are deliberate subversions 
of James Bond's ultra-smooth persona, as when the hero gets 
smacked by women for his infidelity and unreliability (the 
Bond parody is telegraphed early on when Belushi introduces 
himself as "Royce--Shane Royce"). The spoof, however, is 
intermittent and not terribly witty; on the whole, it's 
just another sub-par action picture with adequate 
performers dragged down by a silly plot. Longtime 
television director Rod Holcomb is on auto-pilot here; his 
really noteworthy achievement in 1994 was directing the 
pilot for the smash hit TV series *ER.*(Graphic violence, profanity.)



Country of origin: 
      U.S. 
Genre: 
      Action; Thriller; Spy 
Color or b/w: 
      Color 
Production Co(s).: 
      Gerber/ITC Productions; ITC Entertainment Group; Showtime 
Released by: 
      Paramount Home Video 
MPAA rating: 
      NR 
Parental rating: 
      Cautionary; some scenes objectionable 
Running time: 
       97 


James Belushi
       Shayne Royce 
Miguel Ferrer
       Gribbon 
Peter Boyle
       Huggins 
Chelsea Field
       Marnie 
Michael J. Shannon
       Senator Scanlon 
Jonathan Gabb
       Dylan 
Elizabeth Gann
       Dylan's Mom 
Paris Jefferson
       Brenda 
Anthony Head
       Norm Pitlock 
Michael Halsey
       Oken 
Chris Fairbank
       Nathan Kupchak 
James Purcell
       Campbell 
William Marsh
       Rafkin 
Ralph Ineson
       Newfield 
Pete McNamara
       Julius 
Susan Denaker
       Dee Scanlon 
James McKenna
       Danny Scanlon 
Chrissie Reggiero
       Page Scanlon 
Marie Theodore
       Jeri Sloan 
Danny Kash
       McFain 
Jacob Thompson
       Scottie 
William Hope
       Cliff 
Roy Lewis
       Corcoran 
James Kidnie
       Officer Felix 
Alan Feinman
       D.C. Cab 
Peter Linka
       Refugee/Aussie Reporter 
Fon Gabriella
       Cocktail Waitress 
Borbely Laszlo
       Hotel Manager 
Corey Sholnick
       Manning 
Takasci Gizella
       Female Hostage 
Richard Rifkin
       Wexler 
Andras Balland
       Romaloff 
Bubek Istvan
       Captain Stolitz 
Jakl Bela
       Captain Petrov 


Producer: 
       J. Boyce Harman Jr. 
       Paul Quigley 
Exec. Producer: 
       David Gerber 
       Paul Bernbaum 
Director: 
       Rod Holcomb 
Writer: 
       Paul Bernbaum 
Cinematographer: 
       Thomas Del Ruth 
Editor: 
       Christopher Nelson 
Music Composer: 
       Stanley Clarke 
Set Decorator: 
       Gina Hamilton 
Casting: 
       Judith Holstra 
       Nikki Valko 
Sound: 
       Peter Shewchuk 
Costume Design: 
       Lynn Bernay 
Make Up: 
       Katherine Southern 



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