"Cuts Like a Knife" is sort of the warm-up for Adams big throw "Reckless". His strengths he plays already here: Exciting, no-frills rock songs, ballads and catchy choruses suitable stadium. Yet this mixture does not quite the full distance, but the face of such hits like "Take me back", earwigs like the title track or the classic "Straight from the heart", the then coverte half the music world is to forgive. The one star is only withdrawn because you have to make the quantum leap to "Reckless" somehow clear - unfortunately you can not assign six star ... In background choir is an old (at least for older semesters) acquaintance finds the way back: Lou Gramm of Foreigner.