Froid comme l'enfer

Since this film is brought to you by the same guy you directed 24 and Kung Fu The Legend Continues ("look I'm not my father, I don't do Kung Fu, I'm a cop, thats who I am, thats what I do!"), Id have to say this falls right in lock-step. This is an action film with no action. Let me explain, there is no tension, there's nothing to grab you and shake you about, it is a dry run at half-speed. Watch it for yourself and tell me if any of the action looks anything but Hasselhoff-staged. Not since Knight Rider has there been such action and adventure. Hulk Hogan with hair-doo and sidekick couldn't have less chemistry, the bad guy is a frightening as Ferris Bueller's father. This is a dry, moldy, wet noodle of a movie and I smell conspiracy: Jon Cassar "who are you working for!" Another Jack Bauer classic is: "what are you talking about!" This is what I would yell at Director Casser for such an opus.

No, this isn't a very artistic movie. Yes, you've seen the story before. No, the actors aren't especially good. But yes. There is action. This is a good action movie. Just like they was made in the eighties. Big guns, explosions, ex C.I.A agents taking out entire armies on their own and non-stop action. If you want the kind of action you remember from the good old Arnold movies you have just found it here. Hulk Hogan is awesome and he really fills a role that could be played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is probably the last of the good "one man must fight an entire army to get to the bad guy and save his country/daughter" movies. A perfect movies for a boys night with beer and chips

Although there is plot and I did finish it, it's still a bad movie. It's not even so bad it's good territory. No Holds Barred is the one you should have watched instead! This would be Hulk's 9th movie as a leading actor. You'd think he would have improved a bit but nope! Nothing original happens in this, you name the movie cliche it happens. The casting kind of works but the fact there are "IRA" members without thick Irish accents kind of removes some immersion. Hulk's sidekick reminds me of the movie Steven Seagal did called "Code Of Honor" in 2016 with Craig Sheffer.

The only highlight to this movie is where it becomes Rambo 1 where John Rambo is in the woods and a scene involving a motorcycle and a land mine of some sort.

Is this the worst movie a famous wrestler or fighter is in? No, that so far goes to a movie Tito Ortiz did called "Operation Black Ops" from 2023.

Hulk's hair style in this is atrocious. I understand he's some sort of soldier. I honestly didn't watch it enough to care and this is why he didn't have his signature bright colored bandana and skullet but the whole time I was in awe like the movies Jason Statham has where the makeup department put hair on his head.

This is one of those movies you could have on in the background and only take the odd glance or two at it and you'll do fine. This isn't a story of redemption, Hulk doesn't get captured or anything to give his character a third dimension. Nothing. You might as well watch a movie with The Rock or real actors like Steven Seagal or a newer JCVD movie instead.

Often imitated, but never duplicated, this is the movie that started it all - the bombshell that sparked a revolution in action movies that continues unabated to this day. As soon as it was released you knew that no action movie could ever be the same, and indeed, the influence of "the Ultimate Weapon" will probably be felt 50 years hence. Gone are the days when a top grossing action flick could expect to get by on marginal acting, low brow humor, a few car chases and exposed breasts, some brief colloquial dialog occasionally interrupting the constant bombardment of seizure inducing special effects. "The ultimate weapon" has changed the landscape forever. So much more is demanded now. Gone are the flat, one dimensional action heroes, little more than walking assortments of infantile one-liners and agonizing clichés. Enter Ben Cutter: a character so psychologically complex, affecting emotional states so vivid and true to life, that he seems almost to jump out of the screen and merge seamlessly into the viewers surroundings. He has a tangible, corporeal presence that the audience finds difficult to shake off even after the movie has ended. The framework of this movie is disarmingly simple. The plot seems to be yet another rehash of the same tired action formulas from decades past. But the movie manages to invest all these familiar thematic elements with an energy and aura all its own, something so difficult to describe and awe inspiring to behold, that no review can claim to do it justice. The truth is I can't really pin down what makes this movie so great. I'm able to discuss plenty of other great films with others, but when "the Ultimate Weapon" comes up an inexplicable silence falls on the conversation, and all that remains is certain knowing and strangely communicative glances between all involved that seem to convey a common understanding, wordless and enigmatic, between those who have had the privilege of witnessing this movie.

Well this 1998 action movie starring none other than Hulk Hogan himself is pretty much standard late 1990s action cheese.

Sure, as I sat down to watch "The Ultimate Weapon" here in 2021, I can't really claim that my expectations were super high for the movie. But still, I opted to sit down and watch it and give it a chance.

Turns out that writer Robert Paul and director Jon Cassar actually managed to put together an action movie that was adequate enough. I mean, it did follow that stereotypical how-to-make-an-action movie that was going on with most action movies back in the 1990s. So at least the movie had that going on. So there is some nostalgia to be experience here, cheesy as it was.

Then there was the part about Hulk Hogan in the lead. Yeah, that part wasn't really a winning bet. I mean, sure he was good on the screen back in the 1980s when I was watching WWF on TV. But as a movie star and an actor? No, that wasn't really his strong side. But you just bear over with it as he stumbles through the movie.

And to make things even better. You would assume that a physical man such as Hulk Hogan would be doing his own action scenes and such. But no. There was a stunt double to do this for him. And they didn't even bother to get one that remotely looked like him. In all scenes with the stunt double, you just curl your toes as it is so blatantly obvious that it is not Hulk Hogan himself doing it. I mean, even running up hill on an obstacle course they uses a stunt double. Boy, oh boy. And I was cracked up when they used a stunt double that had a mullet. Yeah, a mullet. It didn't even match Hulk Hogans hair in the movie at all.

There is actually a fair amount of action in the movie. Adequate action actually, not great action mind you. So director Jon Cassar managed to pull that off well enough.

"The Ultimate Weapon" is a movie that you can watch a single time. Trust me, this movie does not have the contents in storyline or action contents to support more than a single viewing.

My rating of the 1998 movie "The Ultimate Weapon" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. Truth be told, then the movie was actually somewhat better than I had anticipated it would be.