The Tracker (2019) starring Dolph Lundgren

I'm a sucker for Dolph Lundgren movies, so while trawling the DVD shelves at my library I couldn't help but pick this up (along with MONEY PLANE with pro wrestler Edge and Kelsey Grammer, THE HUMAN FACTOR with George Kennedy, and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, which is considered one of the best British films ever made).

Dolph stars as Aiden, a mysterious dude whose wife and daughter are kidnapped in Italy. A ransom exchange goes wrong and the pair are killed. Aiden returns to the town years later after a detective contacts him with new information. Revenge follows.

Years of watching his flicks has earned Dolph a solid 87 minutes of my time whenever something he's in pops up on streaming or physical media. Sometimes you get CASTLE FALLS or that one where he's a heavy metal drummer who gets caught in a DIE HARD rip-off. Sometimes you get THE TRACKER. This feels like a "recovery movie" for the hulking, but aging, action star. There's not much fighting or tracking but there IS a lot of Aiden lumbering up steps and shooting people at long range with a rifle. I would almost definitely fail a quiz about this flick, and I watched it less than 24 hours ago. – Dan Taylor

Dan Taylor is the editor/publisher of Exploitation Retrospect and The Hungover Gourmet. He pledges to write more movie reviews in 2025.