Runtime:
95 minutes (at least that's what it was on Troma's YouTube page; more
on that later)
Directed
by: Arizal
Starring:
Peter O'Brian, Craig Gavin, Gillie Beanz, Dana Christina, Mark
Sungkar
From:
Parkit Films
This
is no April Fools Day joke, I reviewed another crappy film, but this
time this is a movie that is gleefully crappy, in a glorious way.
Believe it or not, in the United States it was put out by Troma
Films-of all companies and among the movies that the company has
available for free on its YouTube page is this one, which I have
linked to below. This is from Indonesia-of all places-and it's no The Raid: Redemption in quality.
The
plot, straight from the IMDb: “Peter
Goldson, aka The Stabilizer, searches for drug smuggler Greg
Rainmaker. Rainmaker killed Goldson's fiancee by kicking her with his
spiked shoes, and now Goldson wants revenge. Meanwhile, Rainmaker has
kidnapped the famous Professor Protost, and the Stabilizer teams up
with his daughter Christina to save the Professor and bring Rainmaker
down for good.”
Yes.
The villain is named Greg Rainmaker. That is awesome. But man is
there a lot of awesomely bad moments in this, and I had a blast laughing at/with the movie. If you want a more detailed recap you can check out a review from the Internal Bleeding website, which has some stills from the movie that just show you how easy it is to laugh at it all.
I will list a few highlights:
* Greg Rainmaker always wears spiked shoes. Always.
* The movie has some hilariously bad dubbing, including of the star Peter O'Brian, complete with curly-haired greasy mullet. By the way, he was in another Indonesian movie around the same time. It's known as... Rambu! Yes. That's what the character name was so it's usually called that instead of its original title of The Intruder.
* A flamethrower is used.
* Peter on the motorcycle lays waste to a bunch of thugs in a warehouse, and it's glorious.
* Lizard eating is apparently an acceptable practice in Indonesia.
* Defenestrations happen, including one on a motorcycle.
* It's also apparently easy to find a knee-slapping photo of Peter with sunglasses wearing a mesh shirt in the pose of Stallone on the poster of Cobra.
* A motorized weed-whacker is used by a bad guy.
* And finally, the main henchman of Greg Rainmaker... a guy who looks like and even sort of dresses like an Indonesian Mr. T! That is no April Fools Day joke.
If you love crappy low-budget action movies that are cheesily great from any time period, this is definitely a must-see. Thankfully it is real easy to watch thanks to Troma and their YouTube page.
I'll be back Thursday night.
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