Watched: 07/12/2025
Format: Prime
Viewing: First
Director: John Stewart
After he'd recommended it to me twice, I took JAL up on his suggestion of this particular flick. I meant to watch this for the 4th of July, but we got busy, so here you go. My salute to America.
Action USA (1989) is probably the best high-action movie shot in Waco during the 1980's.
I very much remember Waco in the 1980s. It was, aside from Baylor, a town that had seen its best days 30 years prior and was not yet recovered from the economic turns of the 1970's and 80's. In a few short years, we'd have the Branch Davidian stand-off near here. And then, much later, Joanna Gaines would convince people Waco was the shit, which... TV is a powerful drug, y'all. Somehow, the second worst college town in Texas is now a tourist destination for people who like overpriced wooden spoons and mediocre football.
Anyway, it is always weird/ a delight seeing the landscape of my part of Texas in a movie. And buildings that still stand that I am a bit familiar with from a job I had ten years ago when I was in Waco a lot.
