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Michael Dudikoff stars as Joe Armstrong a martial artist who fights ninjas who are stealing weapons from the U.S Army, in this entertaining yet admittedly brainless martial arts actioner, which is hampered by too many long pauses without action, but helped by some high energy action setpieces as well as Steve James' performance.
Indie film brat John Carpenter, fresh out of film school and with one film - his class project's no-budget spoof of 2001 called Dark Star - under his belt, finishes a gritty
actioner
called Assault On Precinct 13.
He did two films for one-time Bond director Peter Hunt too - the first being the decent 1981
actioner
Death Hunt, the second being this indifferent political chase thriller.
The principal idea behind the film is rather an original one, considering the abundance of killer-doll-based scare-fests which have been foist upon us over the years; unfortunately, the story is handled with all the subtlety of the latest Michael Bay actioner, with a cast of characters which are uniformly unlikable and played with precision-perfect dreadfulness by actors presumably sifted from daytime Korean soap operas.
Exceptionally silly
actioner
with braindead leads in a story which would have suited a fill-in issue of Spiderman.
Totally brain-dead
actioner
made in the Philippines.
Poorly done political
actioner.
Hulk Hogan plays Rip a professional wrestler who has a big heart but is pushed to the limit when his girlfriend(Joan Severence) is kidnapped by thugs who are forcing him to take on another wrestler(Tiny Lister Jr.)Bottom of the barrel
actioner
is such a failure that even Hogan looks ashamed to be in it, and with the evidence portrayed, he should be.
Inept martial arts actioner, while having better production values then most ninja movies, fails to inject any life into the surroundings, or for that matter actionscenes.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS is still a dangerously disappointing dud brought to us by the director of the equally dumb
actioner
COMMANDO.
The second half is a breathless actioner, the action coming out of the characters and their situations, thus making it all the more gripping.
Throw in some downright hackneyed scenes of the purest exposition, (try Custer and his wife's learning of the phony "Gold Rush" to excuse the invasion of the Sioux territory, Custer's testimony in front of Congress pleading the rights of the Red Indians and to top it all, Custer's storming into the president's office to beg to return to his post), honestly there's plenty more of the same, some of these scenes almost comical in their corniness... ...And yet, and yet, it's still a great
actioner
with Flynn as dashing as ever, DeHavilland as beguiling as ever, the young Anthony Quinn getting a start as Crazy Horse and director Walsh as barnstorming as ever in his depiction of crowd scenes and of course the tumultuous action sequences.
This is a decent effort for a B-Movie Martial Arts
actioner.
Even for a budget actioner, the production values are poor, with distant shots during dialog and very little movement.
Just like any other wish-fulfilment
actioner
of that time (e.g.
Ice-T stars as Mason a homeless African-American who finds himself hunted by wealthy hunters (Rutger Hauer,Gary Busey,Charles S. Dutton, F.Murray Abraham,William McNamara and John C. McGinley) however Mason proves to be much harder prey then the usual targets in this ridiculous and slow paced
actioner
which takes too long setting up actionscenes and then totally botching them.
This movie had the potential to be really good, considering some of the plot elements are borrowed from the sci-fi
actioner
THE HIDDEN.
Jean-Claude Van Damme plays twin brothers Alex and Chad, both whom are martial arts expert who team up to take down the mobsters responsible for the murder of the parents in this empty headed martial arts
actioner
which doesn't have a plot that would make better use of the gimmick of having two Jean-Claude Van Dammes.
This being a military-type actioner, there is very little fighting in it, and he doesn't fit into his role (a stealth fighter pilot, "the best in the world", of course) very well, which may explain his almost offensive sleepwalking.
He is, in fact, at the top of his form and delivers a devastating, brutal
actioner
that boasts half a dozen amazing sequences and manages to tell a compassionate, sweet love story also.
An unusually straight-faced
actioner
played by a cast and filmed by a director who obviously took the material seriously.
Not "Citizen Kane," and the comic final moments are a bit disruptive, but a well-written, character-driven above-average straight-to-video
actioner.
Gary Daniels stars as Kenshiro a banished warrior who takes on Lord Shin (Costas Mandylor) to avenge his father's death and reclaim his bride in this visually appealing yet terrible
actioner.
A nice bit of escapist entertainment, this Italian made World War II
actioner
concerns a group of American prisoners, heading to the stockade for such infractions as desertion and outright murder.
Extremely slight
actioner
featuring clean-cut, country club kids turning into suburban Rambos when one of their friends (a busty blonde, no less!) is kidnapped by nefarious third world villains, who naturally keep their caged hostage half-nude.
A sloppy, poor STV
actioner
with an aging Wesley Snipes as a disgraced Special Ops turned armored car robber.
A good no-brainer
actioner.
Aside from its propagandistic aspects (it seems to argue that America has the right to invade any foreign country in the name of "law and justice"), this is a standard, brainless actioner, with lots of explosions and large-scale stunts, but not much excitement.
Black Friday is an awesome
actioner!
However, this is yet another Golan-Globus-Cannon
actioner
that turns out awful.
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