Virtual Combat

Ok now I'm dead serious here.When I said this movie is good for laughs I meant you'd die laughing.....ridiculing it. Of all the movies I've ever seen,this one really goes to show that there are some REALLY lame actors out there who have pathetic scripts and are cast together in one of the most despicable movie ever made.Trust me,over half the scenes in this are so superficial and cheesy that it actually makes you wonder how bad actors can really be. If given a choice between jumping off the empire state building and the movie.....JUMP(and trust me...you WOULD want to jump).

I actually liked this movie. Sure, the acting was flat, there was no plot, and the villain was the lamest that i've seen. Michael Bernardo as Dante is worth laughs in his own right, with an incredibly funny catchphrase and evil laugh. But its worth seeing, just for the WORST explosion you will ever see outside of the Power Rangers TV series. You'll know it when you see it. Honestly, this movie must have the budget of a low grade porno. I almost stopped watching after an hour, but i recommend watching through the whole thing; at the very least, there's plenty of eye candy for all to enjoy. Recommended for viewers with a high tolerance to poor movies.

Don Wilson stars as a cop who enjoys the occasional virtual reality fighting game, however things go wrong when the people behind the game decide to take virtual reality to a new level by making real people from the video game, okay actually they make the cybersex models as prototype but the main bad guy from the video game awakens and starts killing people and now the only man who can beat the guy is Don Wilson, who in the mean time falls in love with the cybersex model. Actually with all things considered my biggest confusion was trying to understand if the people brought over from virtual reality land, were robots, human, cyborgs or just some type of unidentified computer program. It doesn't matter since this is all just an excuse to watch one of the worst actors ever butcher dialog as if he were running a deli. Don Wilson's complete lack of charisma is the film's biggest flaw since one just doesn't like the guy, he's too goody-goody, his voice is too high pitched and doesn't look very impressive in the action sequences. What saves this bore-fest from my lowest rating is Athenia Massey who looks super hot in high cut outfits and who gets occasionally naked. Also on-board is Loren Avedon (A good martial artist), Stella Stevens and Michael Dorn as the main voice of the bad guy but their efforts are in vain as they are all concealed by the very bad acting of Wilson. Another flaw which is the film's biggest mistake is a lack of action, as we are asked to watch the story unfold but aside from Massey's nudity and maybe some unintentional amusements due to laughably unconvincing acting, there really is nothing of interest. This also extends to the action sequences in which are flatly choreographed, badly directed and completely drained of all possible excitement. Making this virtually unwatchable.

* out of 4-(Bad)

Needless to say that I had actually never heard about this 1995 action sci-fi movie titled "Virtual Combat", as I stumbled upon it by sheer, random luck here in 2023. But seeing that the movie had Don "The Dragon" Wilson on the cast list, of course I opted to sit down and give the movie a go.

The storyline in the movie, as written by William C. Martell, is pretty cheesy. You have an abundance of martial arts, goons in sleeveless shirts, pointless nudity and a rather generic low budget sci-fi script. And I am a bit amazed that Don Wilson actually would show up in something like this.

Not surprisingly, then the cast ensemble in "Virtual Combat" didn't exactly hold any particularly famous or established actors or martial artists on the cast list, aside from Don Wilson. The acting performances in the movie were rather sluggish, wooden and amateurish for a number of the cast.

The special effects in "Virtual Combat" were as you would expect from a low budget sci-fi movie, but oddly enough they were campy and cheesy enough to actually work in favor of the movie.

With "Virtual Combat" being an action movie, you have a good amount of martial arts and fight scenes throughout the course of the 87 minutes that the movie ran for. And it is actually the fight scenes that keep the movie afloat and keeps it semi-watchable. Though you're not in for a grand display of impressive martial arts.

This was movie was indeed rich in cheese, and as such I am sure that there is an audience out there. I must admit, though, that I prefer more properly enjoyable movies when I sit down to be entertained by a movie.

My rating of director Andrew Stevens' 1995 movie "Virtual Combat" lands on a three out of ten stars.

A shameless cash-in on the major studio movie VIRTUOSITY (1995), this is a rare example of a copy being better than the original. In the near-future (yes, again) Don 'The Dragon' Wilson plays a cop who - while investigating his partner's murder - stumbles upon a conspiracy to bring the impossibly-perfect women from a virtual reality sex program into the real world by re-writing synthetic DNA so it matches the coding of the girls' design, and then selling them as sex slaves to the highest bidder. An additional big problem is that an AI named 'Dante' who is the lethal & unbeatable final level boss opponent of a virtual reality combat game, has hijacked the technology to also create a body for himself, and intends to do the same for dozens of his dangerous VR brethren. I'm not usually a fan of martial art movies, and VIRTUAL COMBAT is set in an America where firearms have been banned, and so cops and criminals - even low level street punks - all rely on high-kicking chop-socky instead. But while all the fight scenes (and there are a lot) do get a bit tiring, this movie held my interest. Dante makes for a fine supervillain, and particularly welcome is the ridiculously gorgeous Athena Massey as the main VR sex siren.