The stage curtains open ...
Oh, for the love of everything decent, that was awful. That is one of the worst movies I've ever seen or wasted my time on. It is a jumbled mess from the very beginning to the lackluster ending. Watching the previews made it seem like it was going to be a good movie based on an original idea. Unfortunately, the idea was better than the movie was.
The story begins with a young german boy in training, Eric Brogar, being humiliated by his coach in front of all the other boys and their parents because he fell down right before the finish line in a race. The coach, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul), calls him a failure ... kicking the boy while he's down. Years later, Eric is grown and a part of the German Olympic Team with Mueller as the team coach and this time, he wins all the events and receives the gold medal. But, he decides to defect and leave Germany, and despite being shot in the leg, he escapes and makes it to the United States. Soon after, his father is killed, the Berlin Wall comes down, he loses his girlfriend, and he becomes bitter with his new life. And then he finds friendship with a burger joint owner. After he gets back on track and cleans his life up, his old coach shows up again.
I've already said it, but this movie is such a mess. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason behind Mueller's actions, no real plot line to follow, the acting in the movie is atrocious, the action scenes almost seemed to be done in slow motion, and there are no characters worth cheering for ... not even Eric. It seemed that the actors didn't even really know what identity they were supposed to have from scene to scene. And the music ... wow, the soundtrack to this film did not fit. Nothing in this movie gels or makes any sense ... at all.
This is a terrible movie. I highly recommend that you pass this one by if you haven't seen it yet. It is (so far) the absolute worst Dolph Lundgren movie I've ever seen. I can't stress that enough. Done, over with, moving on. Thank god.
Oh, for the love of everything decent, that was awful. That is one of the worst movies I've ever seen or wasted my time on. It is a jumbled mess from the very beginning to the lackluster ending. Watching the previews made it seem like it was going to be a good movie based on an original idea. Unfortunately, the idea was better than the movie was.
The story begins with a young german boy in training, Eric Brogar, being humiliated by his coach in front of all the other boys and their parents because he fell down right before the finish line in a race. The coach, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul), calls him a failure ... kicking the boy while he's down. Years later, Eric is grown and a part of the German Olympic Team with Mueller as the team coach and this time, he wins all the events and receives the gold medal. But, he decides to defect and leave Germany, and despite being shot in the leg, he escapes and makes it to the United States. Soon after, his father is killed, the Berlin Wall comes down, he loses his girlfriend, and he becomes bitter with his new life. And then he finds friendship with a burger joint owner. After he gets back on track and cleans his life up, his old coach shows up again.
I've already said it, but this movie is such a mess. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason behind Mueller's actions, no real plot line to follow, the acting in the movie is atrocious, the action scenes almost seemed to be done in slow motion, and there are no characters worth cheering for ... not even Eric. It seemed that the actors didn't even really know what identity they were supposed to have from scene to scene. And the music ... wow, the soundtrack to this film did not fit. Nothing in this movie gels or makes any sense ... at all.
This is a terrible movie. I highly recommend that you pass this one by if you haven't seen it yet. It is (so far) the absolute worst Dolph Lundgren movie I've ever seen. I can't stress that enough. Done, over with, moving on. Thank god.