Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Trevor]

"River Of Death" (1989)
Twenty years after World War II, a South American jungle guide (Michael "American Ninja" Dudikoff) leads an expedition to a fabled Lost City in a remote, cannibal-infested part of the Amazon, where an ex-Nazi scientist (Robert Vaughn) has been hiding out creating the Ultimate Weapon.
A goofy but entertaining "Indiana Jones" wanna-be from good ol' Cannon Films.

Filmed in South Africa 😊

[lester1/2jr]

Krull (1983) - Fascinating German documentary about the inventor of the Kruller donut. No, it's a passable sci fi adventure movie that I've vaguely wanted to see since it came out. The title implies something darker and more violent than what ultimately transpires, but it's decent. In fact, it's the definition of decent. Some might think it's great, some might think it's stupid, but ... it's decent.

In the (very) heavily Star Wars influenced opening, the plot of rescuing a kidnapped princess is set. Basically it's a medieval type world, but it's in space so they have lasers (which my friend Jared assures me sound exactly like the ones from Star Wars).


Here is one of the guys who goes around in the space forest on the way to the thing.




Some much need comedy relief comes in the form of a British guy who is one of those bad magicians like Presto from Dungeons and Dragons. The princess and the final boss guy's character are kind of just there, they needed to be developed a lot more. Sex and evil are actually pretty interesting things to people, without it you're left with a kid's movie with more aggressive than usual swordplay.

Glad I finally watched it, but I'd much rather see "Zu Warriors from the Magic mountain" or "Clash of the Titans" or something as far as early 80's sci fi/ adventure stuff. Mostly of interest because of the large-ish budget and as an artifact.

3.75/ 5