Dangerous Touch is Lou Diamond Phillips all the way. He co-wrote the story with Kurt Voss. he played a leading role, he directed it, and he even wrote the words for one of the songs, "When You Want Me."

This is the movie that shattered my image of Phillips forever. I think I upheld him to higher standards and expected more from him than this.

The movie begins with major intrigue and suspense as pop psychotherapist, author and radio talk show host Amanda Grace (Kate Vernon) is stalked by a tall, dark, handsome and mysterious stranger, Mick Burroughs (Phillips). In spite of warnings from Sasha (Belinda Tolbert), her business manager, Amanda hops right into bed (and the car seat and an empty warehouse and a stranger's home and a motel room and her apartment and ...) with Mick. Exactly like Sasha said, it gets her into big trouble.

Mick convinces her to have an encounter with a female prostitute and makes a film of the two in the act, then blackmails her with the film. He says he will make the tape public if she does not do what he wants. But he will not tell her what he wants. It takes 65 minutes of this movie to learn exactly what he is after. By that time, I no longer cared what he wanted.

Only in the final few minutes of the movie did he get past all the sexual cat-and-mouse games to divulge the point of the movie.

If you like eroticism and sex for the sake of eroticism and sex, you will love this movie. But if you like a little bit of plot and story mixed in with the sex, you will be much better served by looking elsewhere. Phillips should have gone for the full-frontal nudity and sold this one as hardcore porn. It lacks the substance to be anything else.

I have often wondered why Phillips would do this to his fans. He had to know that people would expect a certain amount of action from any film that he was so heavily involved in creating. He had to know that most of his fans would be disappointed with this soft-core porn flick without purpose. After all, he did not build his fan base in the porn world. He got us from the action and horror genres. Obviously that is where we stayed while he was peddling this dud.

This movie does have an outstanding soundtrack. The underlying theme music is beautiful.

Dangerous Touch is for the porn fan. If you are not one, you will be disappointed. If you are looking for a Lou Diamond Phillips film, I suggest Route 666, Hangman, Disorganized Crime (my personal favorite of this group), The Big Hit, Extreme Justice, Courage Under Fire (where he plays a truly bad bad guy) or Hollywood Homicide (which shows him like you have never seen him before).