![]() ![]() Campbell is amusing as the money hungry villain, as is Fritz Matthews as Lieutenant Thornton, his main henchman. Ted may not be Olivier, but his emoting near the end still needs to be seen to be believed. Instead, the action focuses on the studly Ted P., who for much of the running time darts around in short shorts. Top billed Cameron Mitchell, who plays a former cop and the father to Mikes' wife Jaimy (Suzanne Tara), is very much just here for his name value. But they've made an extremely dumb move in selecting Mike this time around, and he's going to give them what-for in a major way. So they abduct guys like Mike, and chase them through the California woods. The thing about these guys, though, is that they like to have thorough training sessions before the actual missions. They're hired for a gig by an unscrupulous "businessman" named Michaelson (Troy Donahue). ![]() Colonel John Hogan (David Campbell) leads a group of mercenaries. Obviously owing a heavy debt to that familiar old plot of "The Most Dangerous Game", it's also clearly inspired by "First Blood" and its sequels, as well as "Commando". ![]() It's about as far as you can get from high art, with a whole lot of completely inept action sequences and hilariously lame performances. Prior) stars as Mike Danton, a former Marine, in this B level gem. All is going fine in this cruel pursuit to until that is one day his men make the BIG mistake of kidnapping one Mike Danton who turns out to have been formally trained by Hogan and who furthermore makes Rambo look like a wimp! Armed only with a pair of cut off shorts, his mightily muscled frame, his wits and a rather fetching mullet our man now proceeds to wipe out every single one of his hunters in a myriad of wild and wacky ways including breaking their backs against trees, impaling them with twigs(!) spearing them and setting them up in some decidedly grisly traps! Highlights in this? Damn, so many to choose from but check out our hero's girlfriend for a start who must surely rank as one of the most outrageously stupid women in film history! After seeing her beloved knocked over the head and driven away at speed in a truck does she ring the police as any normal, intelligent person would do? No, she instead rings her dad! OK so he was an ex police officer but really! To be fair her father doesn't seem much brighter either! Does he get back up? No, he goes to the military training camp all on his own!!! In fact this film is absolutely riddled with such daft plot contrivances as to render one utterly speechless! Take for instance the fact that whenever our man kills one of the bad guys he never picks up their guns(?!?!?!?) Oh well, he was so damn macho I suppose he didn't feel he needed them until the end! Back to cool scenes again now though and you'll simply marvel at a plethora of utterly terrible fight choreography, a Styrofoam boulder attack(!), a thoroughly appetising scene of delicious worm chomping(!) our man hiding up a tree with no foliage about three feet above his pursuers and them not spotting him (this dumbfoundingly daft scene just has to be seen to be believed!) and my very favourite bit at the end when our hero slices off an opponents arm with his machete before beating the guy to death with his own severed limb!!! To top it all off our man then scalps him!!! Simply ridiculous stuff and all the more hilarious for it!!! If you have any shred of self respect then you simply must get hold of this film by any means possible!īeefcake "actor" Ted Prior (brother of writer & director David A. Fellow bad movie lovers, gather round my brethren for here there be a classic! This is the story of evil Colonal Hogan who is utilising kidnapped innocent civilians as big game in order to train his bloodthirsty group of mercenaries. ![]()
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