Renegade

1992

Seasons & Episodes

  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

5.9| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he testified about police corruption, leading Lt. Donald Dixon to set him up.

Director

Producted By

Stephen J. Cannell Productions

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

Stream on any device, 30-day free trial Watch Now

Trailers & Clips

Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
bsmith441 I used to love watching Renegade on late night television in the 90's. Renegade starring Lorenzo Lamas, Branscombe Richmond, and Kathleen Kimont (Seasons 1-4) was a show about an innocent cop named Reno Raines, who was forced to go on the run when he turned over evidence regarding some crook cops in Bay City, California (Bay City doesn't actually exist in real life).After being captured by talented and brash bounty hunter, Bobby Sixkiller, Bobby soon realizes Reno is innocent and Reno is hired by Sixkiller to take down many fugitives on the run. During this time, Reno with the help of Sixkiller and his half-sister, Cheyenne tries to clear his innocent name.The show is fun and action paced, and it is fun watching Lamas show his real-life extensive knowledge of martial arts throughout the series. The show contains funny dialogue at times, but some of the story lines are downright compelling.The show also features its creator, Stephen J.Cannell, in a recurring role is number one bad guy and dirty cop, Dutch Dixon. Cannell is a surprisingly good actor and has the uncanny ability to tick you off with his smugness.Most fans will also grow to love the character of Bobby Sixkiller. While Sixkiller definitely loves money, he has a heart of gold and often sticks his neck out for his friend, Reno Raines.The first three seasons of Renegade are especially good. The fourth season is more of a mixed bag with some episodes really good, while some episodes seem to focus more on the silly. By the middle of the fourth season, we no longer see Kathleen Kimont on the show at all. Her character was featured heavily the first season of Renegade and then she began appearing less and less (In truth, Kimont was married to Lamas but got a divorce after the first season. Her role began to lessen from that point forward).The fifth season of Renegade showed a show running out of ideas. The story lines were less compelling though it still had its moments. The first four seasons of Renegade were syndicated through hundreds of stations and the fifth season became exclusive to the USA Network. It was a surprise when USA cancelled Renegade after the fifth season because though the show was starting to show its age, it definitely had another season or two left in.I cringe when people claim this show was cheesy. It did have some elements of that, but the show was a good watch and fun. In a day and age of nothing but CSI shows and reality television, it is nice to actually be able to watch something that is just flat out fun.
rich300 Renegade is my favorite TV series ever. The perfect combination of gripping stories, beautiful scenery set against a backdrop of lush blue-sky, gorgeous women, and awesome vehicles. Lorenzo Lamas, Branscombe Richmond, and Stephen Cannell are all perfectly cast as their individual characters, and Kathleen Kinmont does a fine job also.I remember when I was a teenager, watching this show with my Dad, or if it was a school-night, waking up at 1am to watch this back-to-back with Nash Bridges on a channel called ITV here in England.But for me, the show has extended past just sentimentality. Today still in 2013, it's the 'Go-To' show for me whenever I have a spare hour to burn at home. As much as shows such as Lost, Prison Break, and Breaking Bad were all grippingly amazing, the beauty of Renegade is that you can watch a random episode from any series anytime you want without having to catch up to speed with the series' plot line.Renegade does have a plot-line; being that Reno Raines was framed for a crime which he didn't commit, and is on the run from Lieutenant Dutch Dixon, but over the course of the five years in which Renegade aired, they tended to dip in and out of this bigger story throughout each series. Which made for an interesting premise because the viewer at home, as did Reno Raines himself, would never know which episodes Dixon would show up. (Well, at least it was supposed to be that way if it were not for the spoilers; If you saw Stephen J. Cannnell's name pop up at the start of an episode, you knew he would be in that episode).Raines is on the run from the law, all he wants to do is clear his name and settle down to live a quiet comfortable life. In actual fact, he lives a great life; riding around under the Californian sunshine on his Harley Davidson, catching the bad guys, with an endless supply of beautiful women from all different walks of life falling in love with him. Each new episode would provide a new woman and new criminal with a totally different walk of life to the previous episode. Some of the back drops are just wonderful too with a mixture of varying settings depending on each episode, depicting different walks of life; there are lot of scenes of Reno Raines riding through big cities, beaches, deserts, and small simple towns with tiny populations on his Harley which sets the scene nicely, all the tune of some very cool music. It's American escapism television at it's best, and gets 10 out of 10 from me.
gridoon2018 Perhaps the strongest point of "Renegade" is its consistency: when you sit down to watch a random episode, chances are you will not get anything great, but you will not get anything bad, either. The series finds a comfortable "6 out of 10 stars" zone and mostly stays there. The premise stretches believability in several ways (Reno Raines does absolutely nothing to change his all-too-distinctive appearance after becoming a fugitive; Dutch Dixon knows that Reno usually hangs around Bobby Sixkiller's headquarters, but he doesn't even have his people watch the place; Reno initially doesn't want to get too involved with other women after his fiancé's murder, but after a little time he seems to meet "someone special" every three episodes or so; etc.), but the series is still written, directed and acted with enough professionalism to remain watchable. The action/fight scenes are usually brief, but of OK quality. Lorenzo Lamas acts better here than in any of his straight-to-video action films I've seen, and he has an amusing chemistry with Branscombe Richmond. Third-billed Kathleen Kinmont does not appear in every episode like the other two, but does occasionally get involved in the action. Series creator Stephen J. Cannell plays the No. 1 villain, Dutch Dixon, and he's entertainingly evil, though his ineffectiveness in capturing Reno and the way he loses him even when he does have him captured make him look like Wile E. Coyote at times! Several recognizable names keep popping up throughout the series, from Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa to Fred Williamson and from Tracy Scoggins to Kelly Hu, although my favorite male guest star is probably James Cromwell, and my favorite female guest star is probably Nancy Everhard, who appeared in three episodes in total, playing two different characters. So far, only the first 3 seasons of "Renegade" have been released on DVD; it would be nice to see seasons 4 and 5 as well, at least for completion purposes.
Neil Lusher (In deepest voice possible) "He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin and testified against other cops (gone bad). Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands, an outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter - a renegade".This is cheese of the highest order - it has a native American (Bobby Six-Killer!?!) driving a Hummer, fit birds, and the main character with his Michael-Bolton-esque hair cut.This program is much watch TV - any program set in "The Badlands" has to be seen to be believed.Warning - DO NOT WATCH THIS PROGRAM SOBER