Wild Force

The phrase 'don't judge a book by it's cover' can be extended to 'video', I'm offering a bounty £1000 to the first person that can pick one of the people drawn on the covers' counterpart in this film. That's the first minor flaw and I haven't even started to review the film. I don't want to bore you with nit-picking, just be aware that it's a dubbed film, and its fair to say the 'dubbers' don't share the same enthusiasm as the on screen actors, and when they visibly continue talking on screen I can't help but feel I'm being cheated out of some top notch dialogue which the budget may not have stretched to translating. There must've been a budget somewhere though, sadly this wasn't stretched to the music either, and I have a strong suspicion that no shots were re-taken, otherwise surely to goodness they may have attempted to hold the camera steady at some point. Characters? Well they're certainly that. Maybe they're all superb character actors in their home country, but the dubbing does none of their 'skills' as actors any justice. All I can say though is watch it, as it's outstandingly bad, watch it with friends and laugh about it in the pub. Well worth the pound it cost.

Writer and Director Francis Posadas put me through too much and by the end I just didn't care. Posado's tried to make a roughie, comedy, father son relationship, suicide to save the team, rescue war movie. With long and boring battle scenes and endless attempts at humor, a guy running around showing his arse for instance, this one is a looser in any language. It does have a little more going for it then most Godfrey Ho flicks, but it goes too far for my taste with a couple of real nasty scenes including an assassination and of course a brutal rape. I watched the film because Mike Cohen ( Professor somebody) is in it, but Mike looked like he had been on a two week drunken bender and was dubbed in as a bad imitation of Foghorn Leghorn. Half of the movie sounded like the gang from MST 2000 dubbed it with screeching yells and overall idiocy . Barbara Peers, who at least tried, deserved better in her last role. This one is worth skipping and earns a solid Z.

What is there to say about Wild Force ? Not a lot to be honest. The plot (and I use that term loosely) involves the kidnapping of an eminent American UN scientist (Dr Johnson) and his secretary by a gang of terrorists in the Philippines. In order to avoid embarrassment for the country and after a failed rescue attempt, the Philippino military sanctions a 'crack' team of mercenaries known as 'Wild Force' to rescue Dr Johnson and his secretary. The acting and dialogue is, at best, idiotic and the dubbing work is as you would expect from a film like this. Whilst being a truly awful film it still provides plenty of moments of unintentional hilarity.