A terrible movie, worth watching principally on the basis of how NOT to do it. The whole show, from beginning to end has the feel of a spaghetti western, but is based on a Vietnam special forces operation and the outdoor scenes look like they were shot in somewhere like the Philippines, as the extras don't actually look Vietnamese at all! There is a main man and a girl who gets dragged along for the ride, token black men and an evil enemy too, not to mention the somewhat mad American officer that conjures up memories of Apocalypse now, but in a very cheap way. It is in the league of Hammer house of horror, but no where near as amusing because it completely lacks originality. The best scenes are in the whore house at the beginning, after which is becomes somewhat daft, as an American Captain goes gallivanting about in the jungle in search of a secret radio station that he has to destroy, armed with nothing more than a colt 45 and his receding hair line (I wonder if he was soon to go bald, in which case he would have looked better). As for the chick; just an old boiler, that looked completely out of place in almost every scene. My favourite moments had to be when the squad finds itself in a system of caves occupied by American soldiers that were being attacked by the Viet Cong, as it features hospital quarters with fresh sheets on the beds and neatly stored supplies throughout what is a very clean system of tunnels, when in reality having lived in the same tunnels for a number of weeks things would be getting rather rancid by the time the action heroes chanced upon this encampment. Absurdity at its best!
Review of The Last Hunter
