Starts off like the 'The Manchurian Candidate,' with a woman programmed by voiced phrase over the phone to blow both herself and her target soon after. I did think this might be quite topical with the suicide bombers that are so much in the news these days and could be quite interesting. Sadly, it wasn't to be as it then descends into a very dull and clichéd action film.
Cut to a prison camp deep in the Vietnam jungles where kidnapped women are been brainwashed to become human bombs (see earlier). The brainwashing seems to consist of electrodes been attached to bare breasts and the trigger words repeated over and over again. Then again, the camp commandant seems to use the 'electrodes on the breasts' ploy at every opportunity from asking questions or just for a laugh it looks like.
We're into POW film territory as the girls plot escape, but like in 'Stalag 13' there is a informer in their midst. The girl with the most exposed breasts escapes with a sympathetic guard who in an unconvincing breakout takes her to a native's hut for a night of passion before they are found and the girl recaptured and he is shot. Well....at least he got a shag the night before, so, wasn't a complete loss...
Then it's into 'Von Ryan's Express' as the film steals ideas from everywhere, the girls revolt, get caught again and mass raped this time before the informer is found out and thrown out of the speeding train. Suddenly, a plan is formed...actually, it's just try again, only this time with guns. And surprise, this time it succeeds as the guards are a bit shagged out and truth be told, pretty useless as they can only hit a standing target. Actually, the one time they do hit something, it's the girls' volleyball back in the camp when the commandant decides to show how ruthless he is.
Cue a frantic train dash to freedom as the cavalry show up in the guise of two American copters to fly them home. As the pursuing enemy with the use of tank fire can't hit the train, even when it's on a straight track, they make it remarkably easy for them to do so.
All in all a hopeless mess and a total waste of time and effort on all fronts. The brainwashing scam is unrealised, the plot meanders all over the shop, the acting is basic at best, the script poor and the direction is leaden.
Watch any of the aforementioned films they stole bits from and give this a wide berth.
Cut to a prison camp deep in the Vietnam jungles where kidnapped women are been brainwashed to become human bombs (see earlier). The brainwashing seems to consist of electrodes been attached to bare breasts and the trigger words repeated over and over again. Then again, the camp commandant seems to use the 'electrodes on the breasts' ploy at every opportunity from asking questions or just for a laugh it looks like.
We're into POW film territory as the girls plot escape, but like in 'Stalag 13' there is a informer in their midst. The girl with the most exposed breasts escapes with a sympathetic guard who in an unconvincing breakout takes her to a native's hut for a night of passion before they are found and the girl recaptured and he is shot. Well....at least he got a shag the night before, so, wasn't a complete loss...
Then it's into 'Von Ryan's Express' as the film steals ideas from everywhere, the girls revolt, get caught again and mass raped this time before the informer is found out and thrown out of the speeding train. Suddenly, a plan is formed...actually, it's just try again, only this time with guns. And surprise, this time it succeeds as the guards are a bit shagged out and truth be told, pretty useless as they can only hit a standing target. Actually, the one time they do hit something, it's the girls' volleyball back in the camp when the commandant decides to show how ruthless he is.
Cue a frantic train dash to freedom as the cavalry show up in the guise of two American copters to fly them home. As the pursuing enemy with the use of tank fire can't hit the train, even when it's on a straight track, they make it remarkably easy for them to do so.
All in all a hopeless mess and a total waste of time and effort on all fronts. The brainwashing scam is unrealised, the plot meanders all over the shop, the acting is basic at best, the script poor and the direction is leaden.
Watch any of the aforementioned films they stole bits from and give this a wide berth.