Eat the Rich (1987)

Eat the Rich blends disparate elements and runs a bit slow, with acting and editing that's a bit off, but it has a raw energy and power (not to mention the Motorhead soundtrack) that drives its satire. It would appeal better to the 1980s but terrorists and other riffraff still mingle with the rich. Alex (the transgender Alan/Lanah Pellay) is a put-upon waiter at Bastard's, where the obscenely rich hoot and boast over their wealth and power. He/She takes up with three other disenfranchised revolutionary wannabes, eventually opening a restaurant where they abuse and serve the rich (literally). Nosher (James Bond film stuntman Nosher Powell) plays a hands-on old coot of a Home Secretary of Defense who is such a good politician that he can schmooze his way out of a sex scandal after a gaggle of tabloid and TV reporters catch him in flagrante delicto. The ending is lame and, again, the acting is bad, but Alan/Lanah does all right, Nosher is a hoot, and a mysterious double agent channels Charlton Heston to good effect. 3 stars.