Dec 22 2008
Ladies Kicking Ass
Hell Squad (1987?)
D. Kenneth Hartford
MGM Home Video
Full Screen
When the USA is working on a new and improved version of the Neutron bomb the Middle Eastern terrorist organizations take notice. One of the American diplomats in charge of the program has a son who is morally opposed to the creation of the bomb and is pretty vocal about it. Naturally this gets him into a fight with his pops and when angrily storming outside unguarded he is kidnapped by some Wiley unnamed Arabs. Since any kind of action on the part of the United States would be considered political suicide or an act of war the diplomat puts any kind of solution into the hands of his ASSistant, who comes up with possibly the most cockamamy scheme ever. You think Iron Eagle was goofy?
This gooftard decides to round up a troupe of spunky Las Vegas showgirls (I.E. strippers) and put them through a several week crash course assassination training to make them super soldiers. Then send them into the Middle East (looking a lot like L.A.) to grab his boss’s son. And the big boss dude goes for it! They’re out of options, so they have nothing to lose!
So we get a sweet, sweat filled montage of these young ladies in tight shorts and white tank tops firing guns, running through tires and climbing walls. A drill sergeant puts them through their paces and whips them into shape and in no time they are ready to go into battle!
When they get there they check into the hotel and find a bathtub that is big enough to fit all nine of them, so they immediately climb in together for a hot bath, until they get their call for instructions. Then they go blow up some terrorists encampments but no son to speak of. So its back to the bathtub. Rinse lather and repeat. Meanwhile the son is in some dark hole chained up next to a dead guy. The terrorists come in and tell him that because of the Geneva Convention they have to give him food and water and then proceed to dump the water on him and throw the food on the floor. Those EVIL bastards! Always breaking the Geneva convention, does that sound like anyone we know?
Eventually these girls figure out they are being lead around in circles by their tampon strings and get on the stick to finding the homeboy and blow some more shit up that looks a lot like stock footage, before heading back home to crack the case wide open. There is one fairly good stunt sequence of all of them running to get into an actual moving airplane.
The IMDB says this was made in 1987, but I just can’t believe that. I’d be shocked it it was made anywhere after 1978. It just has that feel of the late 70’s no budget potboilers like Policewoman, or Superchick that Crown International put out. 1987 is about a decade too late for that craze. By then the movies coming out to VHS were a LOT slicker than this movie is, or way more low budget (shot on tape). This is pretty low budget but still got some props, costumes, planes, jeeps, guns, and girls to take off their tops. The sight of these girls with fetish army costumes, high boots and machines guns is something to behold. As is the opening scene at which the neutron bomb has been tested and flunkies in banana suits are clearing up the charred remains of the animals they used in the blasts. They are picking up pieces of ropes or collars and saying ” Dude this used to be a dog!” “Oh man This one was a whole elephant. And now its just…gone!” I mean, that’s what a neutron bomb is supposed to do, but it doesn’t make the dialogue any less fucking goofy.
Lastly I am amazed Quinton Tarantino has leaped onto one of his coke feuled bandwagons and put the hot tracks onto remaking this thing. Its the perfect film to do it with. It has action, violence, politics, Beautiful woman who can become empowered as the story goes by. This first film is pretty much bloodless and only a little bit of boobs. But you goof remake it and go for brook and make it dead serious, hard R rated material. If he don’t want to do it, then fucking call me and produce and I will direct it! I KNOW I can make a kick ass movie out of it!
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the guy who gets his face eaten off by a tiger. That was pretty cool.
2008-12-22
02:24:48
ANdy C
