"First Strike" pilots have the mission of destroying nuclear arms that have fallen into the hands of bandits."First Strike" pilots have the mission of destroying nuclear arms that have fallen into the hands of bandits."First Strike" pilots have the mission of destroying nuclear arms that have fallen into the hands of bandits.
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As a fan of low-grade, low-budget, moron action-adventure movies I have to admit this is one of the cheapest action-adventure flicks I have ever seen. How cheap? Well, not Godfrey Ho level, but certainly Ed Wood would have given a thumbs-up if he had been alive to see it. The movie relies on a mishmash of stock footage that isn't coordinated in the slightest and the soundtrack is either this thump-thump keyboard score that I swear has been used in at least 20 other action flicks or it's this ancient 1950's orchestra music that doesn't fit at all. The acting is about what you would expect for a movie with a low budget like this and all-around pretty bad for the most part, not that good acting would have helped with a mess like this.
The "bad guys" look like the sales and marketing department of the last company I worked for and are about as intimidating. For a bunch of bad guys trying to take over the world, you'd think they'd have a nicer office and a higher grade of floozies to fawn over them. One of their "weapons" is a TV remote that somehow is able to blow up important people in their vehicles or houses all over the world, never mind the differences in times zones or having no way of knowing if the important people were actually in the house or vehicle at the time the button was pushed. Generally, I find low-grade trash like this to be pretty entertaining just from it's sheer crapulence alone, but this film is so pitiful and boring all I can do is take it all in and shake my head.
During the big "fight" scene (mostly pieced together from old stock footage) they had the protagonist fighting with an old Chinese SKS from the 1960's as her weapon, a weapon that no military has used in combat since maybe like 1967 or so, that had no full-auto capabilities or the ability to detach a clip to load ammo. I'm no gun expert, but any shmoe could buy one of those things for like $100 when I was a kid and using that in a 1995 film couldn't help but jump out at me. These guys didn't know anyone with an old AR15 or M16 anywhere? Like I said, this movie is CHEAP. Pretty bad stuff all-around and if you are a fan of crappy action flicks, Tornado Run might be a film to test your threshold for badness. For diehard crap-junkies only.
The "bad guys" look like the sales and marketing department of the last company I worked for and are about as intimidating. For a bunch of bad guys trying to take over the world, you'd think they'd have a nicer office and a higher grade of floozies to fawn over them. One of their "weapons" is a TV remote that somehow is able to blow up important people in their vehicles or houses all over the world, never mind the differences in times zones or having no way of knowing if the important people were actually in the house or vehicle at the time the button was pushed. Generally, I find low-grade trash like this to be pretty entertaining just from it's sheer crapulence alone, but this film is so pitiful and boring all I can do is take it all in and shake my head.
During the big "fight" scene (mostly pieced together from old stock footage) they had the protagonist fighting with an old Chinese SKS from the 1960's as her weapon, a weapon that no military has used in combat since maybe like 1967 or so, that had no full-auto capabilities or the ability to detach a clip to load ammo. I'm no gun expert, but any shmoe could buy one of those things for like $100 when I was a kid and using that in a 1995 film couldn't help but jump out at me. These guys didn't know anyone with an old AR15 or M16 anywhere? Like I said, this movie is CHEAP. Pretty bad stuff all-around and if you are a fan of crappy action flicks, Tornado Run might be a film to test your threshold for badness. For diehard crap-junkies only.
- blurnieghey
- Jan 23, 2021
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