Today’s B-Sides has it all: explosions, more explosions, gunfire, more gunfire, vehicles crashing through gates, helicopter escapes, children longing for their Rambo-esque father to come home, more explosions, more gunfire, and all of it is set to a rocking Eighties theme song that sounds like it could have been composed by a Krokus tribute band.
Return Fire is the sequel to Python Wolf. You remember Jungle Wolf, don’t you? That 1986 direct-to-video actioner starred karate master Ron Marchini as a Vietnam vet sent to Central America to rescue an American Ambassador kidnapped by rebel forces. That means he gets to beat up, shoot up, and blow up countless Filipino actors in guerrilla uniforms.
If you’ve never seen Jungle Wolf, that’s okay because the opening credits to the 1988 follow-up recap the action-packed third act of the previous film set to a song titled after the movie performed by...
Return Fire is the sequel to Python Wolf. You remember Jungle Wolf, don’t you? That 1986 direct-to-video actioner starred karate master Ron Marchini as a Vietnam vet sent to Central America to rescue an American Ambassador kidnapped by rebel forces. That means he gets to beat up, shoot up, and blow up countless Filipino actors in guerrilla uniforms.
If you’ve never seen Jungle Wolf, that’s okay because the opening credits to the 1988 follow-up recap the action-packed third act of the previous film set to a song titled after the movie performed by...
- 2/4/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Although you won’t find his name listed anywhere within the annals of cinematic history, martial arts wizard and part-time B-movie icon Ron Marchini is, in my humble opinion, the quintessential action hero for our disastrous day and age. How so, you ask? The answer, my dear friends, lies deep inside Paul Kyriazi’s zany 1990 post-apocalyptic wake-up call “Omega Cop”, a film which thoughtfully explores what, exactly, a one-man army would do if he or she were forced to contend with ruffians and scoundrels in a savage world where water is a commodity. Set to what can only be described as faux oldies music, Marchini struggles to protect a trio of curvy females from a morally bankrupt clan of redneck kung fu experts while making sure his beloved police-issued hat doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. The film, while entertaining, is the sort of zero-grade, third-tier malarkey that often...
- 1/17/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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