Snake Eater III: His Law

Snake Eater III: His Law (1992)

Runtime: 95 minutes

Directed by: George Erschbamer

Starring: Lorenzo Lamas, Minor Mustain, Tracey Cook, Holly Chester, Bam Bam Bigelow

From: Cinepix

Here's the third and final movie in this franchise (as I presume it'll never be rebooted... although you never know these days). Read below how it is indebted to the Death Wish franchise: 

As I mentioned in my review of Snake Eater II, I watched that and this last night via the El Rey Network, which showed the movie fullscreen but at least it was unedited, and it harkened back memories of watching movies on VHS in my youth.

The plot: Snake is hired by a wealthy family to take out a gang of greasy bikers after they kidnapped a young woman and did gross things to her for months... when she escaped she was pretty much Carol Kersey from Death Wish II, except that aside from being almost catatonic, she also loved sex and acquired more than one venereal disease. Yeah, this is pretty sleazy, which makes it unsurprising that you also see several topless women throughout.

The movie is goofy trash but at least I can say it's average. There's intentional comedy, along with plenty of unintentional laughs. As a pro wrestling fan I enjoyed seeing the late Bam Bam Bigelow in a role. A massive human being like him who had flames tattooed on his bald skull, he was a good fit for playing a biker, even if his name was Goose. There's also barfights, an older gentleman who assists Snake & carries a Wildey Magnum pistol from Death Wish 3, and the main villain looks like modern-day Kid Rock in the midst of a bender. Heck, there's even more scenes than I expected of guys pissing outside.

What a wacky trio of movies the Snake Eater series was; to think that this one was somehow based on a novel (!); I presume it was only some basic plot elements that were borrowed. Although, I do now pine for the idea of an alternate universe where there were multiple Snake Eater books after 1992, when they made this last film in the series...