Death Warrant (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.)...

Death Warrant (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is a shrewd 1990 action picture that has Jean-Claude Van Damme going undercover in a prison to investigate a series of mysterious murders.

More adept at providing the aura of excitement than actually delivering the goods, Point of No Return (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is an almost scene-by-scene 1993 remake of the French action film “La Femme Nikita.” Here, Bridget Fonda substitutes for Anne Parillaud as a hot-tempered wharf rat turned into a polished assassin. Although the original was also silly, it had an urgency in its pacing and a sense of belief in its cockeyed story that has not survived in the Hollywood remake.

As both co-producer and director, Robert Redford was so infatuated with Norman Maclean’s memoir of Montana life that he neglected to make it clear in his 1992 A River Runs Through It (CBS Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.) why he was so crazy about the story, which deals reverentially with a family “where there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.” Craig Sheffer is an approrpriately solid Norman, but it’s Brad Pitt’s sly and cocky Paul who really makes things happen.

The cheerfully preposterous 1990 Die Hard 2 (CBS Thursday at 8 p.m.) finds Bruce Willis’ redoubtable police detective John McClane, a resourceful one-man demolition team, once more pressed into saving a large section of the free world. This time he learns of an impending terrorist plot as he waits for his wife (Bonnie Bedelia) to land at Dulles Airport.

The 1987 Lethal Weapon (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is a big, shallow, buddy-buddy cop thriller redeemed by an unpredictable Mel Gibson as a suicidal cop; Danny Glover is his apoplectic partner.

Nothing can be more galling than elephantine whimsy--and the 1992 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) offers up tons: A 112-foot, 2-year-old boy marches on Las Vegas whiles his parents try desperately to save him from the local military-industrial complex.

KCET’s Saturday-night double feature teams two superb Chinese films: Red Sorghum (at 9 p.m.) and Girl from Hunan (at 10:30 p.m.).