“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Phantom Soldiers (1989)
Somehow, this is the first film directed by Teddy Page that I've seen; he's directed more than two dozen films, all of which look like schlock (and most look the same) and I'm told this is one of his more entertaining efforts. The film starts with a Vietnamese village being annihilated by masked soldiers in what is the best scene of the film. It eventually becomes a guy looking for his lost brother film. There are scenes that look like they were stolen directly from other films ("Predator" comes to mind) and there are hundreds of casualties. The acting is poor, the direction sloppy, but as the "Farm Film Report" would say, things blowed up real good. This was really hard to track down.
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