This is the standard American action / thriller soup with : gunfights, car chases, death, nudity, corrupted politicians, explosions, sex, corrupted cops, bar fight, … However, this movie has a jewel that is to say Pamela Anderson. I have always like her natural, her simplicity and her bad choices too. She is rather fun here and notwithstanding she is dressed very lightly all the movie, she manages to give 2 hot scenes as well ! The movie happens not in the usual LA but in New Orleans and it's true that the city isn't very glamorous ! I don't know why she chose to do it while she was already a star in « Baywatch » but it's better than her other (bad) movies (« snapdragon », « naked souls »).. It's funny to notice that the french video cover shows clearly the skin action and that all the cast is credited with their famous movies. Wondering if later the ones who did that one will be credited with « from « Raw Justice » »?

**SPOILERS*** Muddled big city crime drama involving this former New Orleans cop now turned bounty hunter Mace, David Keith, getting involved in finding the city Mayor's David Stites, Charles Napler, daughter Donna's, April Bogenschultz, murderer.As things turn out the #1 suspect is Donna's date the night that she was killed Mitch McCullum, Robert Hayes. Mitch was anything but the man of Donna's dreams who gave him the send off without as much as a good-by in what a dud he was with her. It's later that evening as she was taking a shower that this guy Bennett, Ted Prior, snuck into her apartment and ended up strangling her. we soon find out that Bennett was working for Mayor Stites' deputy Bob Jenkins, Stacey Keach, who's looking to blackmail the mayor by planting, in a tell all book that Donna's was in the process of writing, the false story that he molested Donna when she was a little girl and end up getting his job by forcing Stites to resign from office.In covering his tracks in Donna's murder Jenkins later guns down Bennett as he comes to get his payment for offing her leaving no one to implicate him in her murder. It's when Mace starts to suspect that Donna's murder was political not a random act of violence that Jenkins gets hold of members of the New Orleans police department to knock both Mace as well as McCullum off to keep them from bringing the truth out. We get the heat turned on at least an extra 20 degrees in the movie with the appearance of the 36-24-35 Sarah played by the sexy "Baywatch" lifeguard Pamela Anderson. It was Sarah while turning tricks who lost her working clothes, to Mace no less, and has been trying to track them down ever since. This combination of bounty hunter pasty and dizzy blond in the end puts an end to Bob Jenkins' attempt to not only grab the keys to the city in becoming its next mayor but later to become the states's governor!With all three-Mace Mitch & Sarah- now a threat to Jenkins' future political ambitions he gets his paid off stooges in the New Orleans Police Department as well as a number of local hoods to try to both arrest and gun them down in their being responsible in poor Donna Stites death. Jenkins also has bail bondsman Bernie, Bernard Hocks, get his head bashed in with a baseball bat in order to keep his mouth shut about what he knows about Donna Stites murder. **SPOILERS*** In the end Mayor Stites in a news conference staged by Jenkins to announce his resigning as mayor instead lets the cat out of the bag, on live TV, in the fact that it was Jenkins , not Hayes or even Mace, who murdered his daughter! The films exciting ending sequence has the now exposed killer and blackmailer Bob Jenkins try to make his escape to an unnamed Caribbean or South American banana republic, where he would feel quite at home in, by holding Mayor Stites as a hostage. What turns out to be Jenkins biggest problem is not the police FBI or SWAT team that's hot on his tail but the person, the helicopter pilot, who's to fly him out of the country!Lots of action with an explosive pre 9/11 air crash into a high rise office building and actor David Keith doing a pretty good hot headed Sonny Corleone "Godfather" number, while dressed in drag as a hooker, on one of those bail jumpers he's out to bring in. By far the best reason to see the movie is the hot as a pistole Pamela Anderson, as Sarah, getting it on with Mace in a deserted alley that came very very close to getting the movie an X rating!

Before going any further, I may as well make this short and sweet. Raw Justice is awful. In every angle it's cheap and trashy. It is however, hilariously awful and I'd like to recommend it for that very reason.In the opening scene Mace (David Keith) is out to bust some guy who's just jumped bail. He could have easily have kicked the door open and shown him the gun and the cuffs. But no, this guy doesn't like conventional methods so he decides to "borrow" some clothes from a hooker so he can enter the room as a hooker for reasons unknown. Somehow this genius plan doesn't go smoothly and the bail jumper manages to make a run for it, and what follows is a foot chase with David Keith dressed in drag. Ho ho ho! Funny, right?Meanwhile, Mitch McCullum (Robert Hays) has just had a one-night stand with the Mayor's daughter. After dropping her off at her home, Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins (Stacy Keach) orders some hit-man to kill her, not before showing us her rubbing herself repeatedly as she showers nude. After performing the hit and stealing some computer floppy disks, Jenkins decides not to pay him, but rather to kill him instead. Turns out Jenkins is fed up being Deputy, and wants promotion. So in order to live his dream, he decides that killing Mayor David Stiles' (Charles Napier) daughter who was currently writing a book, adding a chapter about incest to her book then threatening Stiles that if he doesn't resign his position as Mayor in his next speech, he'll release the book to the public. Wow! Why did nobody else ever think of a great plan like that before?! The way this movie handles it is even worse. It just doesn't know where to go.Mayor Stiles hires Mace to investigate, as apparently a loose cannon is exactly what he needs. He meets up with Mitch, the guy who had the one night stand and was initially accused of the murder and the two reluctantly team up and get involved in a couple of shootouts, a crappy car chase, a barfight and a swamp boat chase with hit men and corrupt cops all appearing out of nowhere. As for Pamela Anderson, her character is completely detached from the main plot and the reason for shoehorning her into it is the lamest thing. She plays the hooker whose clothes Mace takes at the start. During the middle of the movie, Mace bumps into her by coincidence and she's angry because he left her outside in her underwear and never returned her clothes. During her whining, bad guys pop up and shoot at our heroes. Now she's been seen with them, she's now part of it and can't be let go.Yeah, I know...Just prior to the Mayor's speech, our heroes have just won a barfight. Mace presses corrupt cop Atkins (Leo Rossi) for information as to who he's working for, he gives in and says he's working for Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins. Mace doesn't even interrogate him for any more information, all he gets is a name before Atkins goes for his gun and is killed, so the only evidence they have against Jenkins is the word of a now deceased cop who our heroes have killed.So the Mayor's speech has now begun, and if he doesn't resign his position, Jenkins will release the edited book to the public. Instead, he announces that Jenkins is responsible for the murder of his daughter. Jenkins responds by claiming that Stiles had her killed when suddenly our heroes enter the room in and Mace says "I don't think so. Atkins talked". Jenkins then goes insane and takes Stiles hostage. Now, the only evidence they have against Jenkins is one name from a deceased cop who the heroes have killed. What evidence is there that they're even the good guys? Despite his original plan being idiotic, the evidence against Jenkins was minimal so I see no reason at all for him to have taken hostages. He's so unbelievably stupid it's a wonder how he obtained his position as deputy mayor in the first place.But it gets worse. Jenkins escapes to the roof with his hostage and demands a helicopter. A helicopter appears and after taking off the pilot turns round and it's revealed to be Mace. Yeah, like they're going to give a chopper to some burnt out ex cop. He jumps out into the river and leaves the helicopter with Jenkins to crash into a skyscraper which would not only cause a huge amount of property damage but would seriously endanger innocent civilians both on the ground and in the building. In reality this guy would have been arrested and thrown in jail to rot, here not only does he get off without so much as a slap on the wrist, the mayor has "straightened things out" with him because of this wonderful act of courage! David Keith is just woeful. Not only does he look awful, but manages to make his character as repulsive and unlikeable as possible. He basically rapes Pamela Anderson's character just after a shootout. Robert Hays is not as bad as Keith but that's not saying much. Reliable B-movie veterans Charles Napier, Stacy Keach and Leo Rossi are wasted. Pamela Anderson has absolutely no reason for being there other than to have two long and boring sex scenes. Her acting is atrocious and her line delivery is at times hilarious, especially in the scene where she tries to comfort Mitch who's feeling sorry for himself by telling him "I think you're being a bit hard on yourself". Overall, this is awful but I highly recommend anyone who loves bad movies to check it out. I could go on, but I have a minimum of 1000 words! User "bob the moo" took it way too seriously!

One of the worst movies i ever watched. Probably the worst. A movie just made for two scenes (minute 39 and 58). Lets see if there is any positive to say about this movie. No I can't think of any. Pam just destroyed my ideology of good acting. Who was stupid enough to produce this?