I'm a die hard wrestling fan, so I decided to bite the bullet here. This was WWE's first attempt at a foray into Hollywood. They don't exactly excel these days with it, but this was a big venture for Vince at the time. He thought he could do both WWE, and Hollywood at the same time, and what better guy to do it than Hulk Hogan? He's already made an appearance in Rocky III, he seemed ready. This was not the case. The movie bombed in a big way, and it's an intolerable cheese fest. Hulk Hogan essentially plays an exaggerated version as himself, and Zeus (Tiny Lister) is laughably wooden, and especially OTT with his facial expressions. It also has many lapses in logic. Rip's kid brother gets crippled by a henchman, and there are no repercussions. Zeus is practically indestructible, and feels hardly anything until the very end. He comes across like a Cyborg, more than anything else. Kurt Fuller hams it up so much, it gives you the impression he knew he was in a piece of junk, and decided to have fun with it, by hamming it up like no tomorrow. Joan Severance has an awful romance with Hogan, and would fade into B movie role obscurity not long after this. And wouldn't you know it? Hulk Hogan does what he did for many, many years, and still does to this day on rare occasions. He takes an inhumanly beating, and Hulks up, shrugging off any previous pain to defeat the baddie. The scary thing about this is that despite how much this movie flopped, and how awful it was, Vince decided to make an angle out of it on WWE Television in 1989. Here is the most ludicrous thing about it. Tiny Lister was singed to a WWE Deal, and appeared on WWE T.V, because he was bitter about having second billing to Hogan. And he used the Zeus name from the movie and not his real name! It was a major clusterfuc******k of epic proportions.
Final Thoughts: I love cheesy movies, but this one is far too stupid and annoying to enjoy. Die hard Hogan fans will wanna see it, and chances are, you already have. The rest needn't bother
3.6/10
Final Thoughts: I love cheesy movies, but this one is far too stupid and annoying to enjoy. Die hard Hogan fans will wanna see it, and chances are, you already have. The rest needn't bother
3.6/10