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Started by dbsommer, November 30, 2019, 01:05:22 PM

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So while this has all the elements to make a horrific movie, such as a talentless child of a talented actor (Like Chris Lemmon in Firehead), Rothrock from Honor and Glory cheese, and Carradine and his 'Future' duology, the movie itself was simply bad, not memorably so. Chad doesn't try to act like Steve with comic effect (dear god, Chris Lemmon should be immortalized with that horrible performance), nor was it as zany a plot was as Firehead. It didn't have the stylistic cheese of Honor and Glory, though Rothrock isn't all that different a character from this to that. And Carradine is kind of in normal bad guy mode. Not a ludicrous fit of a character like the two Future movies. No insistence of heads on pianos or anything

Basically, it was just a normal bad movie with an uncharismatic lead who wisely is not required to do much acting. But there is nothing over the top bad to focus on like in the other examples. It's worth owning because the riffing is solid, but as I said, there was nothing so insane (other than Asian guy's Austrailian/British accent.), or the annoying criminal Carradine keeps setting up to get killed, but keeps surviving, and keeps coming back to Carradine anyway that they were left going 'WTF was that!' which can provide some memorable lines.

The guys did give a solid performance, so its worth owning, just that there are others like in the above that are more worth it.