Storm Trooper

An abused housewife (Carol Alt) receives a surprise visitor on a dark and stormy night when a man with amnesia (John Laughlin) shows up at her house. Searching for him is a government agent (Zach Galligan) who has hired the trigger happy team of a sadistic mercenary (Rick Hill). That might be trouble but the housewife and stranger have secrets of their own.

I don't want to go further into the plot as there are a couple of fun twists and surprises along the way. I've always liked Laughlin so it is cool to see him in a lead. He is quite physical in the role and there is one great single take shot where he takes out three members of the team that is really well done. Hill is also really good in his role as the no nonsense military guy and his intro where he is torturing a guy while being apologetic is great. A big surprise here is Alt, who gives a good performance that belies her model background. There is also an impressive motorcycle and semi-truck chase that may seem familiar to folks as it is taken from Wynorski's 976-EVIL II. Co-stars include Tim Abell, Corey Feldman (wearing an eye patch!), Rocky DeMarco, Jay Richardson, Ross Hagan, Kool Moe Dee, and John Terlesky. Yes, we get the first two Deathstalkers in Terlesky and Hill in the same film!

A good actioner with a real fine cast. Rick Hill as crazy Denton is fantastic and Roger Wade as Killer Caulder shows, what a good actor can make out of an small appearance. Corey Feldmann looks funny with his one eye, John Terlesky and Ross Hagen have short but fine appearances. Carol Alt looked much better in Italien or German TV Movies. You always know what you get when Jim Wynorski directs a movie.

This film is not only bad it is poor. But, this one is so bad you have got to see it. I love really bad movies that are trying to be good. The acting is bad, the lighting is bad, the direction is bad, the lighting is bad, oh, well, you get the picture. When you have an afternoon free watch this stinker. While you are laughing it will be hard to remember, this is not a comedy.

Alright! A sci-fi/horror/action B-hybrid directed by Jim Wynorski and in the final scenes we get to see a cyborg with a defleshed metal head killing off multiple people! As with any Wynorski-flick, he throws in a whole bunch of crazy ideas and subplots that mostly don't lead to anywhere. But "Storm Trooper" is more like a two-movies-for-the-price-of-one kind of deal. On the one hand we got the drama/thriller part (as such the film opens) with Carol Alt killing her incredibly annoying & ungrateful husband (a plot that simply leads to nowhere). And on the other hand we got the 'escaped cyborg on a rampage' part, "Night of the Living Dead"-style. With Carol and the Cyborg being the ones trapped inside the house and a bunch of special OPs/bounty hunters playing the role of the zombies, trying to break into the house. Needless to say this flick is not up there with the greatest. Zach Galligan (of "Gremlins"-fame) especially is painfully bad and Corey Feldman (in a small supporting roll) is once again completely wasted on this movie. Wynorski even rips off one of his own movies here, since I am 99% sure he used some stock footage of his previous film "976 EVIL II" (the scene with the exploding truck and the motorcycle). Yes, it's so not good and so much fun. This is strictly for Wynorski-fans only. And I am one of them, in case you didn't know already.

I think this is the worst movie I have seen since "Mortal Kombat 2". The action (including the effects) is like in a cheap Glen A. Larson TV show, the acting is terrible and the dialogs are even more stupid than in MK2. Avoid at all cost.