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Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young to Die is a 1986 American action film directed by Gil Bettman. It stars John Stamos as Lance Stargrove, a young man who, with the help of secret agent Danja Deering (played by singer Vanity, also known as Denise Matthews) must avenge the death of his secret-agent father (George Lazenby) at the hands of Velvet Von Ragnar (Gene Simmons).[1]

Never Too Young to Die

Gil Bettman

Steven Paul
Anton Fritz

Steven Paul

Steven Paul

David Worth

Paul Seydor
Ned Humphreys

Paul Entertainment

  • June 13, 1986 (1986-06-13)

97 minutes

United States

English

as Lance Stargrove

John Stamos

as Danja Deering

Vanity

as Carruthers / Velvet Von Ragnar

Gene Simmons

as Riley

Robert Englund

as Drew Stargrove

George Lazenby

Peter Kwong as Cliff

Ed Brock as Pyramid

as Arliss

John Anderson

Randy Hall as Minkie

as Minkie's Partner

Branscombe Richmond

Reception[edit]

Brian Salisbury of Film School Rejects called Stamos's performance "quite flat and dull. He seems as if he rolled out of bed and directly onto set without having read a single page of the script."[2] He criticized the film's depiction of the punk subculture as inaccurate, but called it "the kind of film that could only exist in the 80s", and noted "Gene Simmons' insane-but-somehow-captivating-in-a-way-that-will-cost-my-therapist-thousands-of-hours-of-his-life performance".[2]


Rob Dean of The A.V. Club called the film "an incredible schlockfest in plot, characterization, and pretty much every other component of filmmaking", and wrote that "it has certainly left an indelible mark on many hearts of those who love cheesy action flicks."[3]


In a retrospective assessment of the film, Stamos has stated: "It's the perfect midnight-movie, where people can come and dress up. It's – what's the term I'm looking for? – the best worst thing you will ever see."[4]

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