Holy shart, I don’t know the name of this movie but it is great and I am only four minutes in. Surprise helicopter, awesome shooting victims, kids getting shot, cool helicopter killing…what an opening! I’ll be back with more after…
Wow. There’s a lot to say but I will try to jist it so I don’t give away too much. I did kind of take notes for the first time ever while watching a movie, the first paragraph happened when I paused it to make a snack. Rage to Kill is another student versus military movie…like Red Dawn with the Fame high school instead of the red neck one. There is a lot of action and some down time but even the down time is funny. The conversations don’t make a lot of sense and there’s a lot of passionate arguments that are ridiculous.
The bad guys are infiltrating a school on an island somewhere on Earth. The school is full of white people that speak English and the island is the opposite. The opening scene was the bad guys attacking a rich house party for some reason and that was good fun. There seems to be a lot of different camouflage used by the bad army men, a real budget saver game of who are those guys fighting for? So the bad guys move into their new base area by the school and they take the time to fence off a span of beach with warnings and signage about the mines they are burying. Odd. Then they turn and launch a rocket at two dudes in a damn rowboat, blowing them to, yup…smithereens. I was confused by that entire scene.
The bad guys fluctuate between real bad-ass and not able to defeat a group of school students. To be fair the kids have some “banana throwing locals” backing them up with spears and blow-darts. Racism was different in the 80’s. Apparently the bad guys are loading up missiles at the old nuclear power plant where the security is awfully lax.(“security?”-L. Simpson) This movie has some really great shooting deaths. During one of the shootouts there is a bad guy sitting on the edge of a silo, a giant 40 ft silo, shooting away. The main good guy, skinny Neff Foldbloom shoots him and he falls then he keeps shooting him all the way down. Good stuff Neff. There are a lot of stunty people, jumping when shot, flipping around like idiots and some awesome bigger stunts that don’t seem to end right. A guy jumps for a truck and seems to miss but is saved by editing then a jeep flips over and possibly breaks a guys arm. Just some good ol’ poorly executed stunts throughout.
There is some nudity but it ain’t in the sex scene, that baby has all it can handle. To be fair it isn’t technically a sex scene ’cause I don’t think they actually have sex. They are kneeling through most of it, they flop around a little, lying, then kneeling; it’s almost like they are trying to form letters with their bodies. Oh, and they are in about 5 inches of water, kind of dangerous for the one on bottom…maybe that’s why they were kneeling the whole time. She takes her shirt off but that’s it and you don’t really see her boobs as they perform their routine. They never actually do it they just make out and they make an A! How ’bout a W!
There is a group of men that I believe are supposed to be the government. One of them has a toupee I think. He looks like a fat Andrew Johnson. They are ignoring the school issue…not sure why…but the school takes charge on their own and captures a bunch of the bad guys and for some reason strip them down to their banana hammocks and dance around. Nip Horn leading the way, I don’t know where he fits in the story but he is FABULOUS!. It is a strange scene that had me asked out loud, “what the f#$k is going on?”. Still not sure.
Okay, wrap it up. There is lots of great overacting, something like the phrase “tell the government go to hell, no tell them happy birthday” was yelled. There is a wicked awkward hot tub scene with the two bad leaders and two women…they are partying in the movie sense of splashing around drunk, getting way to close to the other couple and getting inappropriate with one of the women. It actually looked like she was offended, in real life offended where she probably yelled at him after the scene cut. Maybe he just thought he was acting strong, with a boner. God, there’s a lot more but this has to end.
Watch this movie.
3 out of 5 slowly repelling army men for this gem.
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