****Excellent***Good**Fair*Poor : <i> Recent releases, reviewed by Times critics.</i> : Movies : * “Fatal Beauty.”<i> (Tuesday release) MGM/UA. $89.95.</i>
<i> Compiled by Terry Atkinson</i>
Rickety, violent star vehicle for Whoopi Goldberg, cast as an LAPD undercover detective and anti-drug crusader. Whoopi is fun but the film is so ramshackle and ludicrous that it self-destructs. Sam Elliott has a nothing role as Goldberg’s leading man.
(MGM/UA will donate 50 cents to the anti-drug Just Say No Foundation for each copy of “Fatal Beauty” purchased by video retailers.)
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