Crashing through are several raffish characters whose acting doesn't get in the way of the stunts.

Action Jackson is a movie where some of the parts are good, but none of them fit and a lot of them stink.

…stuntman Craig R Baxley’s OTT noir actually makes the grade as a slice of deliberately cheesy, high energy entertainment….a vigorous post-Rocky vehicle for Carl Weathers and a moderate hit for Die Hard producer Joel Silver…’

[ Weathers] shows here what one had long suspected from his Rocky debut: an attractive personality with more than enough charisma to fill the screen in a worthier film than this.