Picasso Trigger

Picasso Trigger is a 1988 American action crime film written and directed by Andy Sidaris, who also produced it with Arlene Sidaris. It follows a federal agent, Travis Abilene, played by Steve Bond, as he pursues an international criminal known as Picasso Trigger. After the agent is apparently killed in Paris, the manhunt widens, and Abilene works to stop the criminals behind a series of killings. The story centres on a network of agents, criminals and double-crosses, with the action moving between Paris and Las Vegas. Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond, John Aprea and Roberta Vasquez are among the main cast, part of a credited company of twenty-seven performers.

The film sits between Hard Ticket to Hawaii and Savage Beach in the run of features Sidaris directed, and it is a sequel to Hard Ticket to Hawaii within his loose series of action films built around agents and larger-than-life villains. Its reputation rests largely on its place in that run rather than on critical favour: on IMDb it holds a rating of 4.5 from around 2,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 4.3 from a much smaller pool of about 60 votes. Those figures suggest a modest but persistent audience for the film and its director's style of low-budget, action-driven entertainment.