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When you've just sat and watched two reasonably classy, reasonably well produced straight up hollywood movies you need to wash it down with a bit of direct-to-video trash, this was perfect. It even has Fred olen rays name in the credits!
Gary busey, one time coke hoover, proffesional madman and then born again christian stars here (probably in the coke period) as MCBAIN, manly cop who busts arms dealers singlehanded while his partner sits outside not wanting to get 'his black ass shot off' and insisting on calling backup. After killing the whole bunch of arms dealers (including an early danny trejo appearence) Mcbain heds home to do some diy surgery and remove the bullett in his shoulder. He COULD have let the paramedics on scene help him but he's too much of a man, and to prove it his latest conquest, a hot naked french chick has broken in for a bubble bath, and is waiting for him to get home.
Just as things are threatening to not be manly, two of his CIA handlers turn up to reactivate him. Basically a bunch of arabs, commies, mexicans (read not american speaking foreign devils of every nationality) have set up training camps across the border in mexico, and an army seek and destroy unit (that ignores wimpish details like borders and international law) has been wiped out with minimal reisistance (because their not mcbain) and a top-secret super tank has been taken. It seems the rag tag bunch of generic foreign threats of the month have decided the (single) tank is ideal to invade 'merica so head lybian, played by Henry silva (one of the few men who could concievably out-crazy busey) must find out how to work it by torturing the hostages!
It turns out one of the soldiers captured was the wife of mcbains old partner, who he accidentally shot dead in some ally. Naturally mcbain was also boning her behind his partners back so the dual guilt pursuades him that he must cross the border and kill a whole buinch of folk...
What this movie lacks in brains it more than makes up for in sheer charm. The transfer looks like a vhs rip, but thats ok, this is one of those movies that evokes the nostalgia of heading to the off-liscence with video card in hand to get something to watch with a cider based hangover on a sunday (need to be fit for school on monday!) The production value on the disc is so cheap its a miracle the whole film is on there, or that its not accidentaly got a bunch of nicaraguan porn on it due to a mistake at the factory. You can get it for a quid or so on amazon and if your like me and enjoy trash like this its money well spent!
25th January 2013, 07:51 PM
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