Lethal Force

An amazing blast to the face and funnybone
Alvin Ecarma's LETHAL FORCE boasts geysers of blood à la the LONE WOLF & CUB films, blazing guns (and latent homosexuality) from John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW, and a bevy of stylistic and thematic nods to other favorite films from CONAN THE BARBARIAN to EVIL DEAD 2 to ARMOUR OF GOD. Even the temporary soundtrack present when I saw LETHAL FORCE at a riotous MicroCineFest 2001 screening (where it walked away with the Audience and Judges' Awards for Best Feature Film) possessed musical cues (and sound effects) from ENTER THE DRAGON, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, and other films of high regard.

Frank Pritchard stars as Jack Carter. He's a well-meaning patsy caught between his old friend, Frank Savitch (Cash Flagg Jr.), an unstoppable assassin, and Mal Lock (Andrew Hewitt), a wheelchair-bound super-baddie with a legion of white-masked goons at his command. Director Ecarma does well to keep things fresh in what could otherwise be a staid action film with wonderfully kinetic...

ln a nutshell...
A BLAST of Funtastic Kung Fu, Chop Socky, Tom Foolery, & Highbrow Highjinx... LOVED IT!!!

TOTAL GARBAGE
This so-called movie is total bottom-of-the-barrel garbage. Total crap in everyway--script, acting, direction, production values. Looks like it was made by retards, and I don't mean the kind with downs syndrome. People with downs syndrome would have made a far better movie than this POS. The dum-dums who made this should buy up every copy and burn them all. God was this thing horrible. To see an actually awesome shoe-string-budget movie, check out "There's Nothing Out There." Now that's awesome low-budge movie-making. STAY AWAY FROM "Lethal Crap."

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