OK I will try to make a good objective review of this movie. First off as i was prowling the DVD store to look for a movie to watch, i stumbled upon iron thunder. I saw the front cover and it looked cool and read the back, thinking to myself that it would probably be a pretty decent movie. To my shock when i watched it, it turned out to be a completely C rate movie. The plot was horrible, the acting was lacking, to say the least, and i thought that the cover of the DVD should be watered down to include only wut is seen in the movie. known of these high tech helicopters and other tanks. If u ever watch or buy this movie... just don't save ur money. at best watch at it to laugh at how C rate and horrible it is. thank you
5 Reviews
Truly lame
Leofwine_draca23 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
IRON THUNDER is one of the lamest B-movies I can remember seeing in a long time, a film so cheap that it's lacking in every single respect you can think of. A slumming-it Richard Hatch plays a crazed army guy who steals a top-secret tank and goes on a rampage through the desert in the middle of nowhere. A special forces team are tasked with tracking him down and taking him out. That's the entire plot in a nutshell, but the film is so cheap that most of it is shot in close up and there's virtually no action or FX whatsoever, the normal things you'd expect from that kind of premise. It really is the pits, and I can think of few worse at this moment in time.
Avoid this movie like the plague!
tarbosh2200026 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
We get no pleasure out of saying this...for those new to this site, we're not those snarky internet guttersnipes that just nitpick movies (mainly because they're just nerds who don't know anything; we're just regular people)...but Iron Thunder is the worst movie we've reviewed to date. All copies of this cinematic abortion should be eradicated from the earth.
The really sad part is, it never has to be this way. Like other potential renters, we presume, we thought "Oh, Iron Thunder. That's a cool title, even though there's already a movie by that name starring Anthony "Amp" Elmore, and it stars Richard Hatch. It can't be all bad". Well, it IS all bad, because it has nothing viewers look for when they watch movies: likable characters, an interesting story, and an enjoyability factor that rises above zero.
Apparently Richard Hatch plays a guy with a plug in his head (not to be confused with "Plughead" from the Circuitry Man series) who goes rogue with a new experimental tank and a team of soldiers has to go find him and avoid being killed by him. The rock-bottom budget gives all the proceedings a junky look, from the horrible CD-ROM-style graphics to the toy tanks they used as laughable miniatures. Other effects are just annoying and headache-inducing. This utter slog is sub-crud and there's a lot of talkiness you just don't care about and are not even close to being invested in. And the kicker is, this crime against movies goes on for a punishing, brutal, inexplicable, inexcusable 110 minutes! Why? What were they thinking? Try to imagine a STUPIDER Digital Man (1995) crossed with a MUCH stupider Bulletproof (1988), add a few more layers of worthlessness, draw it out for almost two full hours and then you might have some clue as to how unbelievably bad this movie is. It truly gives low-budget and Direct-To-Video filmmaking a bad name and insults them besides. This movie is a traitor to the cause of awesome DTV action-packed fun.
Don't they teach warnings against this sort of thing in film school? Apparently this director wasn't paying attention, not that he's at all attuned to the wants and needs of others. It's funny how, somehow, people live up to their name, and the perpetrator of this movie is one Jay Woelfel and indeed everything about this THING is indeed woeful. How DARE he unleash this atrocity on the public? How come there's no repercussions for this? Amazingly, Iron Thunder was at our local library. Even at a rental cost of zero, it was not worth it. It actually takes a toll on you. Avoid this movie like the plague.
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The really sad part is, it never has to be this way. Like other potential renters, we presume, we thought "Oh, Iron Thunder. That's a cool title, even though there's already a movie by that name starring Anthony "Amp" Elmore, and it stars Richard Hatch. It can't be all bad". Well, it IS all bad, because it has nothing viewers look for when they watch movies: likable characters, an interesting story, and an enjoyability factor that rises above zero.
Apparently Richard Hatch plays a guy with a plug in his head (not to be confused with "Plughead" from the Circuitry Man series) who goes rogue with a new experimental tank and a team of soldiers has to go find him and avoid being killed by him. The rock-bottom budget gives all the proceedings a junky look, from the horrible CD-ROM-style graphics to the toy tanks they used as laughable miniatures. Other effects are just annoying and headache-inducing. This utter slog is sub-crud and there's a lot of talkiness you just don't care about and are not even close to being invested in. And the kicker is, this crime against movies goes on for a punishing, brutal, inexplicable, inexcusable 110 minutes! Why? What were they thinking? Try to imagine a STUPIDER Digital Man (1995) crossed with a MUCH stupider Bulletproof (1988), add a few more layers of worthlessness, draw it out for almost two full hours and then you might have some clue as to how unbelievably bad this movie is. It truly gives low-budget and Direct-To-Video filmmaking a bad name and insults them besides. This movie is a traitor to the cause of awesome DTV action-packed fun.
Don't they teach warnings against this sort of thing in film school? Apparently this director wasn't paying attention, not that he's at all attuned to the wants and needs of others. It's funny how, somehow, people live up to their name, and the perpetrator of this movie is one Jay Woelfel and indeed everything about this THING is indeed woeful. How DARE he unleash this atrocity on the public? How come there's no repercussions for this? Amazingly, Iron Thunder was at our local library. Even at a rental cost of zero, it was not worth it. It actually takes a toll on you. Avoid this movie like the plague.
For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com
Man-tank mindmeld weapon errantly races toward Las Vegas!
jack_947061 January 2001
A low-budget film, but packing lots of bang per buck. Hatch proves he can be more than the teenie-bop hero of Galatica era. The woman has a strong role; there's some lively dialog, some humor; and good hand-to-hand action -- not just a tank blowing everything up, not just "collateral damage." Somewhat like the Roy Scheider film with the helicopter as to human-machine interface (as to the opening concept), but developed more along the lines of a Cronenberg/Philip K. Dick what-sort-of-mutants-are-we-making-of-ourselves? type message.
Save your money.
JusticeTalion13 December 2004
Richard Hatch and a catchy title do not a movie make.
Iron Thunder was obviously made on the budget one usually reserves for porno movies. Super secret next generation tanks that rattle and squeak like an old Sherman? Hatch in a green jumpsuit sporting a pot belly to rival anything seen at the family picnic and effects that were just plain laughable. Add to this dialogue that was totally inappropriate for the story ("Language, people.", whenever anyone used a cuss word), plot lines that seem totally ridiculous (Hatch wires a tank shell that kills a guy by causing the blood in his head to leak into the helmet he is wearing instead of exploding and killing everyone in the tank...go figure) and just a general lameness that pervades this movie in spades.
If you've got money to burn and need a cure for insomnia then by all means buy this movie and watch to your heart's content. My aunt does. She puts it on and three minutes into it I am left to agonize over it as she has already fallen asleep.
If not then might I suggest the excellent "Blue Thunder" instead. It packs more bang for the buck and has a cool chopper too. Who knows? You just might become a JAFO too (watch the movie and find out).
Iron Thunder was obviously made on the budget one usually reserves for porno movies. Super secret next generation tanks that rattle and squeak like an old Sherman? Hatch in a green jumpsuit sporting a pot belly to rival anything seen at the family picnic and effects that were just plain laughable. Add to this dialogue that was totally inappropriate for the story ("Language, people.", whenever anyone used a cuss word), plot lines that seem totally ridiculous (Hatch wires a tank shell that kills a guy by causing the blood in his head to leak into the helmet he is wearing instead of exploding and killing everyone in the tank...go figure) and just a general lameness that pervades this movie in spades.
If you've got money to burn and need a cure for insomnia then by all means buy this movie and watch to your heart's content. My aunt does. She puts it on and three minutes into it I am left to agonize over it as she has already fallen asleep.
If not then might I suggest the excellent "Blue Thunder" instead. It packs more bang for the buck and has a cool chopper too. Who knows? You just might become a JAFO too (watch the movie and find out).
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