Jungleground

Roddy Piper tries too hard in this one note action piece. Basically a rip off of every other run for your life through a futuristic wasteland. Watch Escape from New York, The Ultimate Warrior, or the Road Warrior instead.

Roddy Piper does good action scenes and bone crunching maneuvers, but not all his films turn out that great. But this one is fun and exciting. It isnt however up there with They Live, but Jungleground is a good way to kill time watching an action flick.

This DTV flick is an amusing if generic crime/action movie. It reminds me of the kind of crap I used to watch on late night HBO or Cinemax. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper stars as an undercover cop who works in "Jungleground," an area of the city that is so crime-ridden no cop or normal human being would dare enter it after dark. At night, it's run by a gang known as the Ragnorockers, who, of course, are led by a guy named Odin (JR Bourne). There are also gangsters named Thor and Loki, and also a teenage boy on rollerblades called Gameshow, who spouts game show catch phrases before he opens fire. Being a 90s action movie, expect a lot of uzis and explosions. Piper is captured by the Rockers but escapes. They also have his girlfriend (Torri Higginson), so he has to search for her with the help of a young prostitute (the absolutely adorable Rachel Wilson). The production and costume design are quite good. I loved the look of the Rockers.

All the noticable henchmen have lore behind them. The story is decent enough, but what makes this a good B-Movie is the fact that you get to see all and villains with traits and personalities, including their weapons of choice.

With a good budget, and talented actors, this would make for a great movie.

JUNGLEGROUND is a really cool 90s urban set Action Thriller starring the AWESOME "RODDY PIPER" R.I.P, here he's fantastic as the Action Hero of this film, "Roddy" really was a great actor & should have made it bigger into an Action star but he didn't? He ended up, as the lead role at least in straight to video films, but that DEFINITELY doesn't mean his films are bad!!! "JUNGLEGROUND" is a fun & gritty pure 90s Thriller, about a certain area that's so bad & violent & gang infested that even cops won't go there & that place is called "jungleground" & our hero "Roddy" has a little mission down there, some kinda undercover drugs bust as he's a Cop & let's just say things go wrong & "Roddy" is from then on being Hunted in the urban hell hole by gangs & it's so much fun, like a low-budget version of "The Warriors" mixed with "Escape from New York" & that's exactly what "Jungleground" is, it's a genre movie, it's a fun straight to video action flick with a great B-movie action star!!! The gangs are ridiculously un-scary but fun & like i said "Roddy" makes a great Hero & very likable & he does some cool action, runs alot through the dark & dangerous night time streets of JUNGLEGROUND. DEFINITELY check out this little low-budget Action GEM, this film makes good late night entertainment, Also if like me you love "Roddy piper" films check out "THEY LIVE" "TOUGH & DEADLY" "SCI-FIGHTERS" & "THE BAD PACK" all really good, straight to video action Thriller's especially "The Bad Pack" from 1997 also starring another great "Robert Davi"

R.I.P RODDY PIPER