More commonly known under the way better title of THE VIOLENT BREED this might be the worst movie directed by Fernando Di Leo that I've seen so far. It starts off like a typical euro-war flick set in Vietnam and then turns into the story of a CIA agent(Harrison Muller) on a mission to take down his old buddy from the war(Woody Strode) who is now a drug-running gangster still in Southeast Asia. There are a lot of exploding huts but Mr. Muller doesn't make for the most compelling action hero and the ending is pretty underwhelming as is the plot. Muller does look a bit like Jesus though so that's something.
The old VHS tape I have of this makes Woody Strode out to be the star and REAL SOULJA(whatever that means) but that's sadly not the case and he's only the main bad guy. The great Henry Silva is wasted only really doing anything exciting in the first few minutes of the film before being regulated to the talky scenes. This really made me want to stick with Di Leo's 70's films.
No Strode on the Cannon VHS box!:
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