Straight out of the Philippines in an attempt to look like Vietnam come the most anticipated First Blood wannabe knock-off of 1983 that nobody knew about: Fireback! Richard Harrison, possibly the greatest of the 1980s white dude movie ninjas, is a weapons expert who gets captured along with his latest super weapon by the Vietnamese … Continue reading Fireback (1983)
Italy does it again with another late '80s 'Namsploitation film, this time about mercenaries with a grudge against a drug lord who is running guns out of Cambodia with the help of the North Vietnamese. Filmed entirely in the Philippines, this movie gets things like uniforms and ammunition counts horribly wrong, but the explosions are … Continue reading Just a Damned Soldier (1988)
"You don't recruit John Steele. You unleash him." I'll let the awesomeness of that tagline sink in for a moment. There are good action films. There are bad action films. And there are action films so ridiculous that after a while you realize you are watching it solely for the spectacle of it all and … Continue reading Steele Justice (1987)
I watched this movie because it was filmed in Six Flags here in Georgia. Once I started it up, I discovered Jan Hooks of Saturday Night Live fame happened to have a small part in it. Excellent. An amusement park named Funland is bought out by the mafia, and they decide to make some changes. … Continue reading Funland (1987)
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