It was on HBO all the time and I knew the name, I just can't remember anyone memorable in it now...and as such can't use the mighty power of GOOGLE to remember the name.
It was, basically, a b-movie ripoff of Enter The Dragon....I think, is that the one where Bruce Lee has to infiltrate that guys private army and then fights him at the end? (The one they spoof in Kentucky Fried Movie).
So martial arts american-indian looking dude assembles his old "A-Team" of dudes, karate guys and weapons guys, to infiltrate some private army of mercenaries or something who are bent on poisioning the world or something like that.
In the end the due uses his crazy karate skills (or something) to defeat.err..someone and save the world.
The scenes where he "assembles" his team are the memorable ones...one guy is a karate master (white guy) who "levitates" for our hero before signing up, another guy is a crazy weapons dude who is playing a gambling game of russian roulette by tossing a loaded gun up in the air....
And I think at the end the "hero" must ingest a bunch of this windex looking poision stuff but he's taken a secret antidote..or...something.
Ok, that ain't it. Now, I gotta admit, this movie looks worse than the film I am talking about, right down to the SAME GUY WHO PLAYED DOCTOR KLON IN KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIES A FISTFULL OF YEN!! (HOW did I miss this in the 80's!??!?!).
In the movie I am talking about:
The main character is played by a guy with long black hair, or at least feathered black hair..he looked sort of asian, but more like an American Indian to be honest (from memory). He had a very cut, wirey body...very bruce-lee ish only with a much darker skintone.
He goes to recruit this karate master at a dojo, I think he's been isolating himself. He "floats" across the floor without moving his legs. Now, this guy is like in his 30's or 40's, barechested..hairy...and caucasian, like a Chuck Norris clone. Then the two medidate or spar or something and the white guy does this levitation thing. (sorry, we're talking almost 25 years of thinkback here!).
Then the crazy mercenary guy who is tossing the loaded gun up into the air and playing russian roulette like that. Maybe he only recruits those two guys, maybe he assembles more.
But I think at the end the dude is made to make a choice...take a "mind control drug" (which looks like a big vial full of windex) which then puts him into the control of the main bad guy, but a-HA Surprise! He's NOT..he's just....(wait for it..)...PRETENDING!
(or something)
Anyhow, its like.....honestly, not as bad looking as Force Five
Anyone else? C'mon this was on HBO like once a week for awhile there...someones gotta know it.
Posted by HeadRusch (Member # 3755) on :
Now, to get this on DVD (NetFlix says SAVE FOR LATER..my guess is they had 1 copy of the movie and someone "lost" it..ahem..).....along with THE FINAL OPTION and THE KEEP and I'll be happy.
(and yes I know THE FINAL OPTION is out in R2 as Who Dares Wins).
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by HeadRusch: Wow, I wasn't THAT far off in my memories of this film.....
Now, to get this on DVD (NetFlix says SAVE FOR LATER..my guess is they had 1 copy of the movie and someone "lost" it..ahem..).....along with THE FINAL OPTION and THE KEEP and I'll be happy.
(and yes I know THE FINAL OPTION is out in R2 as Who Dares Wins).
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