Great video Film Brain. I am now morbidly curious in watch more Dolph Lundgren movies. Plus, I am somewhat also nostalgic for VHS.

I had to pause the video with my mouth agape staring at my monitor after the German dancing rap scene.

They should've hired professional assassin. They clearly can't do themselves.

It's easy to smash through the roof of a van. Provided the roof is made out of paper mache.

They can make an action movie out of anything. I knew that was true after hearing about Gymkata. I heard about that movie from my dad, before Obscurus Lupa reviewed it.

This movie really does make Dolph Lugren performance as He-Man seem look Oscar-Nominated. At least there were more cool action scenes in that movie than in this one.

But why this movie is PG-18?

VHS is the king of formats. Sure they degrade with excessive use, but by the time you've seen a movie 100 times you already know what happened.

This movie makes me want to watch Gymkata again. There is clearly something wrong about that.

Yeah, plus would a DVD last through 100 viewings? Discs wear out ridiculously quickly. You can leave a VHS out for a couple days and not have it be completely destroyed by dust.

VHS lasted like 3 times longer than DVD's have, and I'm pretty damn sure Laserdiscs did too.

My older brother just wants to hurry up to the next format. I'm still getting used to Blu-Rays! I hate change. I hate having to switch over to a new format.

"But enough about me being a massive dork!" I say this on a daily basis; you are among friends, Mathew.

This movie hasn't made me so uncomfortable to have the name "Julia" since I read "1984."

Um...from communism to Nazis...are we about to be under attack by Commie-Nazis? Break out the UNICEF pennies!

Um...Dolph Lundgren singing...well, it's not BAD, per se (definitely heard worse from celebs), but...how? where? when? why?

Dolph sang at Melodifestivalen last year. He was one of the hosts. Melodifestivalen is where they pick the Swedish singer for Eurovision. His performance wasn't that bad actually... U should see him on the drums!

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=KF6U2-_Dhw4

lol loved Film Brain's reaction to the speedo scene. XD Poor guy

Noooooooo, not the black guy, he was destined to live till the end of time.

The best part is that they discontinued the Pentathlon in 1984

To be fair, Creese is still alive at the end (he's cheering Erik on at the end).

Eh... no. It's called Modern pentathlon and it's at least in the Olympics until 2012.

Dolph is a foreigner playing a US olympic athlete

Uhm, no. He plays a east german athlete that disguises as an US athlete.

The kid at the start was awful. Would it have killed them to find someone who actually speaks German?

And I agree with you on Hutch's man-crush on Eric. That's pretty much what I was thinking too. :P

well i guess you can already see the budget constraints when they - as usual – CAN’T FIND PEOPLE WHO SPEAK GERMAN (or at least take the time to teach them to say their two sentences without making them sound like gibberish…)

As a german I can tell you there are more former stasi-men in the NPD then you would think there are. One of the most prominent exapmples of a total 180 is Horst Mahler who went from lawyer of the RAF to lawyer of the NPD.

Great vid FB.

Though the Dolphster is a tad flat in his singing. Just a mite.

And really, if this film's worst failing is that it's too talky, then it elevates it to a level that isn't great, but is a millon miles above absolute shit like Epic Fucking Movie.

Seriously, It's between Epic Movie and Fat Slags for worst movie you've ever reviewed.

There's probably sociology gold that hasn't been tapped yet dealing with the types of people who have entire shelves of home video format copies of classic 70s-80s action hero movies that star people like Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren.

There's already one that I found related to a documentary made by some guy in Canada dedicated to vinyl collecting, so there's probably a great unfilmed doco about retro action movie aficionados.

Dolph Lundgren is an actor I wish would get more work these days. He succeeds in his acting where the otherwise underrated Jean Claude Van Damme kind of suffers a flaw there.

Great review and awesome, that you used the Dolph-Singing-Footage at the end. For everybody whos interested, the clips on youTube and severall minutes longer, where he destroys severall bricks with a karate punch while singing. It's fuckin' AWESOME!

HE HAS THE POWER!!!!!

Ha ha! I get it.

Simpsons did it!
MacBain vs Commi-Nazis

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=dvm6fkQLm50

Did I hear once again 80's action movie hate from Film Brain...

Wunderschön! :D

I rarely vote on videos, but I gave this 5 stars just for Dolph Lundgren singing. BTW, about the boss's comment about fun, remember - fun and failure both start the same way.

Wow, bizarrely abrupt ending.

Also, why would the idiot muggers see Eric as a good target? He's a head taller than all of them and clearly built twice as wide as them too!

"Ex-stasi members, who still believe in Hitler's ideas?"

What? What?! What??!! :-o Oh, my God... I'm pretty sure the scriptwriter didn't learn history in school, and he was high during scriptwriting.

And what about the opening scene? 1972, and a nazi guard walking around. So there was no communism in 1972? Or the communists did walk around in nazi uniforms?

What is more historically accurate movie? Terminator 2 or this one? The Terminator 2.

Nostalgia is a powerful powerful thing. Likely, it's the childhood memories of many great videos.

I was more thinking good to know that drug subplot was pointless.

Where the hell did the shot come form? Did the Korean mafia have it out against him? Oh, it was one of his team mates, yeah, why wasn't anyone trying to stop him or arrest him?

Super human powers of a gary stu in an action flick, activate!

I kill you and then I'll be his father!! ~What I think was going on in his head.

Wow, I'm terribly out of shape and fat and I could run longer then that. I'll assume it's that gun shot finally catching up. ...Called it.

And you do know film makers, it's illegal to be a nazi in germany, immediately after WWII they put a stop to it. But I guess if you go from 0 to full blown terrorism, it's hard to care what label you have it under.

What stunt he pulled? He was shot at.

Ummm, I don't quite understand, why did they become neo-nazis and why are they trying to assassinate these people? Are they just pulling random villain cliches?

I heard some Ps popping by him. :) You'd think with such an important event, they'd have someone talented. Surely you could have found someone with talent trying to start their career for this movie.

I'm more wondering how the hell did he break the top of the van, but, that too.

How was he able to compete? I guess they managed to prove he wasn't part of that, but the American legal system takes forever.

*ending clip* My brain hurts.

Hilarious review. :)

The stunt he pulled was defection to the USA, causing a major international incident in the process.

i really wanna see you review one of the syfy movies... bet your head i gonna explode if you watch ANY of them:P

I've said this a few times before: Sharktopus, please!

First off. Happy 2 years of Bad Movie Beatdown. Two years later and the show is still pretty damn good. Keep it up, Buck. =D

Secondly, this movie...Gah. Why does Dolph still have a career? Great review!

I'm not 100% certain on this, but I remember reading about stazi members who actually did look up to hitler as a role model. Apparently they were "communofacists" or something. I don't know. Stalin and Hitler were both military dictators, and that was good enough for them.

Yeah, and they did run nazi youth camps in 1972 in the communist East-Germany. lol

If I'm not mistaken, former Nazis were in fact STASI members later and Sachsen, former DDR, has up until now one of the highest Neo-Nazi rate in whole Germany due to the fact, that Sachsen has a high quote of unemployment and big problems with poverty. So many people take the easy way to lable the foreigners as scapegoats.
East Germany was not voluntarily communist, they were practically sold to the UDSSR.
But that just on a sidenote.

Great review as always :)

15:15 its Kirk Cameron!

It's really a shame Film Brain said this film was overall more boring than anything, 'cause many of the whacked out clips he showed made it look like it might be some kind of lost cheesy-awesome gem. Particularly, David Soul losing his shit when he killed Dolph's Dad looked like he was channeling Nicholas Cage in full-on Batshit mode.

And then there's the assassination attempt on the Rabbi speaker: First, the plan was to what? Oh yeah, stand there out in the open and lock onto him with a FUCKING BAZOOKA! Besides the fact that I can't think of a better way to draw attention to yourself without using an actual tank, RPG's are generally not known for their sniping ability. They're used to hit really big things like tanks & planes, but they're generally not accurate enough to reliably hit a man-sized target, more likely it would shoot right past him & explode harmlessly in the distance (well, except for all the people in the bleachers it likely ends up hitting). But then it doesn't matter anyway because the plan is foiled when Dolph shoots him, which makes the guy holding the RPG disappear in an exploding ball of flame. ...from which we then see both the bazooka & the guy fly out, both completely intact & seemingly undamaged. So, What The Hell Just Exploded???

and BTW, if Film Brain happens to read this, there was a poor editing choice I thought I should point out: you show a very, very brief shot of the "Olympic Medal Ceremony", then cut to yourself saying how it looks way too paltry to be actual Olympic ceremony and in fact looks absolutely nothing like they're in South Korea. Those comments really should have been in a voice-over while we're actually seeing for ourselves what you're talking about.

Finally, I'll say this much for Dolph's singing: I actually understood the words a lot better than on the original Elvis version. Let's see Ah-nuld do *that*.

what was that at the end? Why was Dolph Lundgren Elvis? So delightfully confused...

Wow, I totally can't tell that they used Auto-tune on Dolph's voice.

Auto-tune? Are you serious?

I've never been much for VHS's. Now my twin brother TheVHSGrouch absolutely love them. Come to think of it my brother and I haven't talked for years.