Who'd have thought that twenty-years after this film was made, Michael Jackson would end up looking like Billy Drago? Death Ring is of 'those' films. # You know, a cheap knock-off action movie which is kind of like that more famous film starring those more famous people. This one stars the brothers and sisters and pets of more famous people, including Patrick Swayze's brother Ralph or whatever, and he's a very strange looking man indeed.
But he's not the hero. The hero is a 'Norris' brother of Chuck? Son? Cousin? I don't know, but I do know this when this guy emotes it's like watching a four-year-old have a tantrum. In the movie he's an athletic ex-green beret who's roped into a deadly game of cat and mouse by Billy Drago, where he's hunted on a island by four guys for a grand prize the Death Ring which looks pretty rubbish for a prize.
It takes eons before we even get to the island. When we do, it takes even longer for the hunt to start, although we do get a bit of violence when Billy kicks a guy's brains out for being too impatient (the guy did have a point). Things eventually do get going, but then we keep cutting back to hero's buddy who's doing detective work in order to find the island. Meh This had a lot going for it, what with the devil worshipper sub-plot, the quirky hunters, and that Swayze guy's bizarre features, but it also has the most ridiculous amount of padding I've ever seen in a movie. Most of the action takes place in the last half hour, and it's pretty good, but the journey there just takes too long.
It looked as if the version I watched was slightly cut too.
But he's not the hero. The hero is a 'Norris' brother of Chuck? Son? Cousin? I don't know, but I do know this when this guy emotes it's like watching a four-year-old have a tantrum. In the movie he's an athletic ex-green beret who's roped into a deadly game of cat and mouse by Billy Drago, where he's hunted on a island by four guys for a grand prize the Death Ring which looks pretty rubbish for a prize.
It takes eons before we even get to the island. When we do, it takes even longer for the hunt to start, although we do get a bit of violence when Billy kicks a guy's brains out for being too impatient (the guy did have a point). Things eventually do get going, but then we keep cutting back to hero's buddy who's doing detective work in order to find the island. Meh This had a lot going for it, what with the devil worshipper sub-plot, the quirky hunters, and that Swayze guy's bizarre features, but it also has the most ridiculous amount of padding I've ever seen in a movie. Most of the action takes place in the last half hour, and it's pretty good, but the journey there just takes too long.
It looked as if the version I watched was slightly cut too.