Set on the Washington State Peninsula, a group of former loggers turned drug smugglers have stowed away a cache of weapons in a shed in the woods. One of the smugglers named Ritchie comes to the home of a family where a teen girl named Alex (Meredith) lives. Alex’s father has already been murdered by the smugglers; this time both her brother and mother are murdered ("It’s just business," says Ritchie). Alex is able to hide and escape.

Meanwhile a small group of explorer scouts find the weapons and hide a case of them. The smugglers find out and, using a map a scout has dropped, go to the scout’s camp. Mistaking the boys as enemies in the darkness of night, they shoot them all. Five boys escape or were not in the camp at the time of the slaughter. The smugglers go after them. A game of cat and mouse ensues. At one point, after the boys seek help from deputies who are actually friends of the smugglers, a masked gunman helps the boys escape. The gunman turns out to be a vengeful Alex.

The group is ambushed while at Alex’s house and two boys are captured. One is sent back to give a message to the others – the captive boy will be exchanged for the weapons the next morning. Since they have no clue where exactly they hid the weapons, they spend all night rigging up traps. They take out all the smugglers with spears, wooden spikes, and huge logs on ropes. Alex confronts Ritchie at the end, pointing a gun at his head. "Well Alex….," he says. "It was only business. What can I say?" "Try goodbye," Alex coldly responds, as she fires a single round into his forehead.

Although beautifully shot and edited, the story of this film is completely unbelievable. If you suspend belief in any sense of reality then this can be enjoyed as a decent action-revenge film. The smugglers are all cartoon characters, although Don Swayze (Patrick’s brother) does a good job as the stupid, morally bankrupt Ritchie. Corey Feldman, acting as part of the explorer ensemble as Butler, the scout with the mechanical & trap-setting know-how, does not have one of his better performances. He seems to be doing a Christian Slater doing Jack Nicholson impersonation. It’s hard to believe this is the same actor who did such a great job in Dream A Little Dream.

Meredith, however, does a great acting job as Alex. She begins the movie as a sweet, beautiful, and vulnerable girl. After the rest of her family is murdered, she transforms. She is tough, independent, and filled with anger. As she tells the scouts about her family while they are at her house, Meredith does a fabulous job of showing the underlying part of Alex which is filled with love and sorrow for her family. Her emotional performance as she talks about what happened to her family is one part of the film which transcends the cartoonishness and connects with the viewer. Again, the writing for this film is not great but Meredith does an incredible job with what she has to work with. I think she must have had fun delivering her Schwarzenegger-like line as she gets her revenge at the end of the film.