Future Force (1989)

The Worst Film Ever

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The only pleasant aspect of this movie is the beautiful Anna Rapagna. The only thing futuristic about this movie is that we are watching it in their future. Terrible soundtrack, terrible movie.

It's difficult to give this film a very good rating, although I do recommend you see it, if you like David Carradine.Since his untimely death, I've tried to collect and watch all of his films that are still available.I think MST3000 would have had fun with this one, if they censored out the nudity and perhaps some of the profanity.Two used copies I ordered on line were defective, and tonight I received my third (new) copy, and am enjoying it as I type this review.I'm awaiting a DVD of "Sundown, the Vampire in Retreat", and I also enjoy rewatching "Q, The Winged Serpent". Carradine and Michael Moriarty are excellent together.

David Carradine, who seems to be very very drunk, is a cop in the future. The future looks a lot like 1987. He works for a private security force, which has taken over from government (I bet they got this idea from ROBOCOP) and has, ah, killed off crime. Mainly by going after guys with parking tickets, apparently. Although they put up as much of a fight as armed robbers.Carradine has a robot hand, that gives him super strength and can shoot lasers. This is less amusing than it sounds.The idea behind the plot, that the hero believes in a corrupt system so much that he actually turns against his friends, because he's the only one who really does, is a real good one, and somebody ought to borrow it someday for another movie. This, though, is oddly slow, with too much screen time eaten up by people driving and walking. No nudity, either, which is sort of a bummer in this kind of movie.Not really recommended. More fun to talk about than actually see, the awful truth of a lot of these kind of movies.

My vote is a perfect 10...for perfectly awful. This video was for sale and I gobbled it up because I thought that it was FutureZone, the sequel to this film. I saw FutureZone years ago and laughed to joyous content. And although Kill Bill v2 was just a hilarious, at least the David Carradine scenes, this film doesn't make me run to the bomb shelter (its important to note that Tarintino's v2 work had everything, including a kitchen sink full of puke, I left the theater thinking Armegeddon could begin at any second...for there was no turd left unturned in that magnum opus). Anyway, this film was everything I wanted and more, the robot laser cannon is really the icing on the pudding.