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The Rage (1997)
Unbearable would be too hard, good would be too generous
Some of my comments might be seen as spoilers, you have been warned.
The Hero heads out to fight the Villain and his Villainess. On his quest the Hero is assigned to the Heroine. From here on the plot has no twists and almost everything is underlined with heavy semi automatic fire.
The Hero is burdened with guilt and he has an Enemy within the bureau. The Enemy turns out to be angry enough to want to shoot the Hero and the Heroine in the end after the Villain has been burned to cinders. My my, what a surprise.
The Heroine is a desk rat that has longed for "the field" and everything that happens, no matter if it's close to rape or getting her head blown off, it's handled as a new interesting experience. The only time she shows that this first time on the field touches her in any way is when she thinks she might have killed two bystanders in a moving car. (She didn't.)
The Villain leads a gang of ex-Vietnam soldiers and their goal is to get even with the people that, in the gangs view, abandoned them after and during the war. On their way to revenge they kill, rape and mutilate to their hearts content. Needless to say, the shots from the coroner's operating theatre are gruesome to try to keep the viewers at least mildly interested. The Villainess wears ludicrous wigs throughout the movie and in the end she has to fight the Heroine amidst the flames aboard the flaming boats.
The special effects are average in quality but I couldn't keep myself from laughing when one of the pads laid on the ground to ease a fall was visible.
As in so many other "the police against military trained bad people" movies, the police, in this case the FBI and the locals, arrive in badly ordered groups that even I could take out with a few grenades and a heavy machine gun.
The movie goes on and on while they fire round after round, gasoline bombs go off as to simulate ... something going off and everything ends with a boat chase and the Enemy getting shot and that kiss that says that everything will be fine.
Cracking Up (1977)
Monty Python's Flying Circus goes bad and American
This is a really bad movie. This is what happens when Americans get influenced by Monty Python's Flying Circus and someone has a rich parent that can sponsor this disaster of a movie.
The obvious rip-ofs starting with the animated intro are just annoying for me as a MPFC fan. To add to the disaster they try to add some naked people to make the whole thing funnier and the only thing I can say is "Benny Hill does this better!".