Once upon a time (a few years ago) I saw this movie and liked it quite a bit, I even gave it a positive rating (first 7, later 6 out of 10). This early morning I wanted to try it again, since the reviews here on IMDb are pretty much all mercilessly negative...
Ross Hagen's white hat is something I had deliberately overlooked in an earlier review elsewhere, but that just isn't fair; it simply destroys any decent attempt to make Rommel a credible character. Otherwise there's plenty of campy cult revenge fun in here, with some nasty, but well done flashbacks instead of straightforward storytelling. The scenes with the motor racing with the side-hackers are fun bonus stuff (though the second one went on a little too long), and the 'happy couple in love carelessly wandering though the fields in the sun' scenes were very corny, yet strangely satisfactory. Bad guy JC (yes, with all that's implied here, he must have been the suggested second coming) delivers some top notch psychopath behavior and throughout the film there are various colorful characters to entertain the audience. The finale is crappy, but still fun - how does one explain such a thing...? Let's not; just try it yourself, if you dare.
Not really a good film, no, but at times it comes close. And as a campy cult flick, it will just about do. I'm just not getting over that hat, though...
A very, very small 6 out of 10, then.
Ross Hagen's white hat is something I had deliberately overlooked in an earlier review elsewhere, but that just isn't fair; it simply destroys any decent attempt to make Rommel a credible character. Otherwise there's plenty of campy cult revenge fun in here, with some nasty, but well done flashbacks instead of straightforward storytelling. The scenes with the motor racing with the side-hackers are fun bonus stuff (though the second one went on a little too long), and the 'happy couple in love carelessly wandering though the fields in the sun' scenes were very corny, yet strangely satisfactory. Bad guy JC (yes, with all that's implied here, he must have been the suggested second coming) delivers some top notch psychopath behavior and throughout the film there are various colorful characters to entertain the audience. The finale is crappy, but still fun - how does one explain such a thing...? Let's not; just try it yourself, if you dare.
Not really a good film, no, but at times it comes close. And as a campy cult flick, it will just about do. I'm just not getting over that hat, though...
A very, very small 6 out of 10, then.