Holy cow. This movie is a good time. It is a military movie…that is to say there is a lot of army gear, weapons and a bunch of killing. Everyone in it is a army-like person…not that they have any training or basic ability to defend themselves.
If I had to guess I would say that the person who wrote this movie did it right after they watched Rambo or maybe Commando. It’s one man versus an army of mercenaries and if you don’t know what a mercenary is you are not alone. Best I can deduce from all the shitty movies I have watched is that a mercenary is an ex-military individual that gets paid to do shit. It could be a murdering job, maybe some theft that you need done…hell, I think they do gutters for the right price. I know for sure that the word gets overused plenty in the 80’s and 90’s movies some of us love so much.
- Gambo never ends up downtown
In this particular mercenary tale a bad guy is training a bunch of terrible mercenaries at his mercenary training camp just south of Los Angeles…seems like a good place for that kind of thing. He has obtained a large amount of serious fire power, not sure if we know how, that he is going to use for something real bad…don’t know if we get that information either. He has a financial backer that regularly shows up at the giant secret training facility with all of the illegally obtained military equipment to complain and lecture, strange.
Even stranger is how they train. A few of them take a van into L.A. to kidnap a man then bring him back to their hangout. There they let him go and then proceed to hunt him with about 20 guys. Again, I don’t know what they are training for…wait it was something overseas, that I remember…but these odds and the scenario don’t seem very productive for mercenary training. In most of the merc (yeah, that’s short lingo) movies I have seen it’s quite the opposite ratio and not a game of cat and mouse. It’s usually a small number of merkins that are infiltrating a large number of bad dudes. Regardless, this is their training model for some reason.
So, you guessed it, they kidnap the wrong mother-fucker and pay for it. Gambo, we’ll call him, is an ex-something-or-other and when he gets taken into the woods before he’s had his coffee there is hell to pay. He kills everybody. There are some funny deaths, weird line deliveries and some great (bad) stunt performances. Main dude Gambo is not a good actor and someone told him to run around like a gorilla and short of occasionally running around on all fours he does just that.
Okay, wrapping this diatribe up…you should watch this movie. There is a woman wearing a camouflage diaper, some impressive overacting, real bad editing and a lot of shit that doesn’t make sense. Please note the variation in grenade performance…perhaps they got their grenades from the factory-second freezer like you can at the Ben and Jerry shops ’cause they are not reliable…some blow up huge like an Oreo Cookie pint full of Oreos and some don’t do much…like when you get mostly vanilla ice cream. I don’t know. Eventually it all comes to a head and Gambo, despite his friends being killed and his lady being assaulted (though she doesn’t seem to be that upset about it), he comes through. The finale starts to get a little long but stick with it…there’s a treat at the end. If you watch one mercenary movie this season make it this one.
3 out of 5 boobie traps for Deadly Prey
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