How bad is it? 8
How unintentionally bad is it? 10
How entertainingly bad is it? 6
If Andy Sidaris hadn't made films, this might be better known; as it is, it's almost impossible to find on VHS, but someone's uploaded it to YouTube, so you can watch it (for now, anyway). Two girls who do a lot of scuba diving find a can on the beach that gives them a clue to a woman who runs a drug ring, but whose main drive is finding an ancient Mayan (?) nuclear source code. There's some chase scenes, motorcycles and horses, and a lot of underwater nonsense. There's a plot point lifted directly from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (note the alternate title), unless they came up with it independently and simultaneously; this may be why it's obscure. There's a very short cameo by Hulk Hogan (!) which may be why this thing still exists. The story drags and is full of holes, one actress is quite bad, there's laughably bad music, there's obvious use of stock footage and there's even some nonsense that had to be pointed out to me by someone who watched it with me: the women communicate with each other at distance without equipment, as if they're psychic. One of the girls, in a tiny blue bikini, gets tied up, gets all sweaty and then bounces up and down for no good reason, except that it seems to free her hands - and this is the high point of the film - then she finds the exact tools she would need to escape conveniently placed an arm's length away. It repetitious and silly, but I actually enjoyed it in a put-your-brain-on-hold sort of way. It might have been planned as a TV pilot, it has the right look and it has no nudity or swearing.
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