Final Score

Final Score (1986)

Runtime: 87 minutes

Directed by: Arizal

Starring: Christopher Mitchum, Mike Abbott, Ida Iasha, Dicky Zulkarnaen, Zainal Abidin

From: Rapi Films

Here is something random I heard about on a messageboard. More than once this film was brought up; it's from Indonesia and it's from the director of the hilariously bad/great The Stabilizer. As that movie is also on YouTube, it was easy to watch this tonight and I didn't have to go into the bowels of the Internet to check it out. As for what I did yesterday, I went out and had more to drink than expected, then I decided to drink some more at home. Watching something then talking about it wasn't in the cards, despite what I promised last night. This would be pretty great to see while trashed, though.

To steal the plot from the IMDb: “Richard Brown, a decorated Vietnam War veteran now living in Indonesia, discovers that gunmen invaded his home, murdered his son, Bobby, (preparing to celebrate his 8th birthday), and gang-raped and murdered his wife, Florinda. Vowing revenge, he begins to track down the culprits, learning in the process that they're in the employ of a business rival named Hawk.” Note that Mr. Hawk is a random white guy with a great pornstache and despite being from England he's dubbed and his deep voice is rather wacky. Then again there are plenty of wacky voices to be heard from the dubbing. Only the star provided his own speaking voice.

The gang rape scene, while not as awful to watch as the similar scene in Death Wish 2, is still pretty gross and we really did not need to see such a thing. The story is flimsy (they attack Dick Brown because he runs a computer chip company and they want to take him out so they can get in on the business and it would cover up their illegal activities, or some such nonsense) and it almost seems like there's too much shooting out and explosions and carnage. Still, a lot of stuff blows up and there's so much wackiness to enjoy... The Stabilizer is better but if you enjoy such things you should also check this out. Among the highlights:

* Indonesia had a lot of crappy-looking vehicles from the 70's that were driven around in the 80's. At least I hope they weren't 80's models... really, they looked so bad.

* Most of the time Robert Mitchum's son is literally killing hundreds of people while wearing a sweet Fila jacket.

* It doesn't take long before Dick Brown has rebound sex with someone. Admittedly she was an attractive lady...

* The director has some trademarks; I know this from seeing two of his films. There's such things as gratuitous usage of slow motion, dudes getting wrecked, and warehouses getting blown the F up.

* The dialogue they gave the many henchmen usually involves yelling and cursing. Some of it was so goofy I had to laugh.

* Dick Brown has some goofy one-liners.

* A bad guy gets a small bomb placed right by his crotch. This is as he's tied up in a chair.

There's definitely more but I don't want to give everything away now. I will return Friday night.