GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Tony Ortega Yes, many more have graduated. In the far off future of 1991, the police will be replaced by civilian contractors. Each must first pass the high standards of marksmanship set by The Empire's Stormtroopers. Not only must they miss their quarry, they must miss all clothes, vehicles, and nearby props entirely. Until now, only stormtroopers had been so precise.In Future Force, David Caradine's character of John Tucker is shot at repeatedly with all kinds of different weapons. However not one bullet hole is shown anywhere near him. He is shot at with machine guns, shotguns, and pistols. His truck is never damaged by bullet holes throughout the entire movie. Tucker himself is shot twice by what appears to be a very experienced murderer, Becker. Tucker gets back up with only a trickle of blood dripping from the edge of his mouth without any sign of a bruise, cut, nor BULLET HOLE.Yes, these civilian contractors must have assuredly graduated SUMMA CUM LAUDE from The Empire's School for Stormtroopers.One amazing scene shows a couple of those contractors walking towards Tuckers vehicle from about 50 feet behind. Tucker tells the woman reporter to put her head down. Tucker then teleports himself out of the truck to a place unseen by the two contractors. Sometimes movie magic is just so mind-numbingly incredible!SEE! A Plethora of Classic Antique 70s and 80s Cars and Trucks!!!SEE! Big 80s-style hair!!! Futuristic Cathode Ray Tube Technology!!!SEE! The Highly-Anticipated Return of The MULLETT!!! SEE! Biker-look Civilian Contractor C.O.P.S.*!!!SEE! Spectacular Manual and Remote Flying Robot Arm Action!!!SEE! Topless Dancing & Naked Butts!!!SEE! A Car Flip!!! A Car Cliff Dive!!!SEE! A TV Implode!!! A Helicopter Explode!!!SEE! Chief Cherokee Teleport Three Times in One Scene****!!!SEE! Groin Punches!!! Disappearing Color TV*****!!!SEE! Sanitation Department Horror of Dead Body PileupsI give this spectacular bomb FIVE out of FIVE Ed Wood Stars!This movie was included in Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's DVD SCI-FI SIX PACK COLLECTOR'S SET (UPC# 0 96009 54329 7). The box set came with three DVD cases each with its own catalog number (54309, 54319, 54799), no UPC #, and designated "NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL RESALE". Each case came with two DVDs:54309:Firehead...............UPC #0 96009 51529 4Space Mutiny.........UPC #0 96009 51599 754319:Future Force..........UPC #0 96009 51579 9Future Zone...........UPC #0 96009 51589 954799:Prey of the Jaguar...UPC #0 96009 49619 7Conspiracy of Fear...UPC #0 96009 51509 6I guess the box was originally designed to house four DVD cases, because Echo Bridge graciously---free and without fanfare on the packaging---added two rectangular pieces of cardboard to fill in the extra space.* Civilian Operated Police Systems (according to the sign on the entrance to the headquarters)**** Civilian Operated Police Incorporated (according to the narrator)****** Civilian Operated Police State (according to Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's DVD case's description)**** Establishing shot shows car in a seemingly deserted dirt road with railroad tracks. In closeups of Marion (Anna Rapagna) and Tucker, cross traffic is blurry but clearly visible not far behind them. Later, two C.O.P.S. are seen walking towards the car with a truck parked behind them. Only the front tire is visible. There is no traffic. The next camera angle through the Cherokee shows a different location with a different truck where the rear wheel is clearly visible. In the mirror they appear to be in the original deserted location.***** Front camera angles show Tucker and Marion clearly looking at the center console as they watch and react to their helper, Billy, talking on-screen. However shots from behind the couple show no signs of the TV anywhere.

Comeuppance Reviews In the future, crime is so rampant that regular police are overworked. Enter C.O.P.S., a private firm that is like law enforcement/bounty hunters. It stands for Civilian Operated Police Systems. The big hotshot of the C.O.P.S. is one John Tucker (Carradine). With the help of his computer nerd buddy Billy (Douglas), he always gets his man. After it is thought that TV news reporter Marion Sims (Rapagna) has some incriminating dirt on corrupt Adams (Zipp), the head of the C.O.P.S., he frames her for, of all things, treason, and now all the bounty hunters are after her. Luckily (or perhaps not), Tucker gets to her first. Now Tucker and Sims are on the run from their former co-workers, who all shoot to kill. Adams and his sidekick Becker (Tessier) are ruthless, especially against someone who is "not on their payroll", i.e. Tucker. But Tucker has a secret weapon, a "power glove" that must be seen to be believed....Here, director David Prior steals from everything ranging from Death Race 2000 (1975) to The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) to The Gauntlet (1977) to Robocop (1987), and it all has an especially junky feel. Even the cartoon COPS, which debuted on TV in 1988 (in that case it stood for Central Organization of Police Specialists), and the "original reality show" Cops, which debuted in 1989, might have been reference points for Prior, as they were contemporary shows in the general consciousness.But the filmmakers must have had problems with the timeline, as even though Future Force was released in '89, the "far off future time" was a full two years later, 1991! Couldn't they do just a bit better? Then again, they could have been aping yet another 80's classic, Max Headroom, which takes place 23 minutes into the future. But this seems like it could have been a potential Ron Marchini vehicle, as it has the same cheap, "futuristic", garbagey scenario, you know it's the future because all the baddies wear baseball caps, and Carradine gives a flat, unlikable performance. Even "John Travis" (one of Marchini's characters) and "John Tucker" are not far off, and Zipp's portrayal of Adams is kind of D.W. Landingham-esque. Was this originally meant for Marchini, but Carradine was used instead? Carradine seems bored/tired/uninterested/perturbed in his role as Tucker, and even though he was 53 years old at the time of shooting, it is said he is 40. We're not saying all action stars have to be young guys - look at Eastwood (an obvious influence on this film) - but come on. If the main star is not up for it, it can drag the movie down. While Carradine can do better, perhaps the influence of Marchini was just too strong. We know they know each other, at the very least, because they did a movie together, Karate Cop (1991). It's almost funny how much Carradine openly seems like he doesn't even want to be there. But on the bright side, he has an awesome vest.As far as the baddies, William Zipp gives the best performance we've seen of his to date. He sinks his teeth into his villain role. His sidekick Becker (interestingly also the name of his sidekick in Jungle Assault (1989), but played by Ted Prior), is a good heavy, and the actor that played him, Robert Tessier has a long career which contains everything from One Man Force (1989) to Beverly Hills Brats (1989) to No Safe Haven (1987).All of Tucker's C.O.P.S. co-workers are goofy-looking dudes (except for genre stalwart Dawn Wildsmith) and they hang out at a strip club called the Demilitarized Zone, but in the movie, they misspell "demilitarized"! Come on. Little things like that go to illustrate the sloppiness of the overall production.It may seem we've been a bit hard on Future Force, and Carradine's perhaps-uncaring performance has something to do with that (even though he's credited as a co-producer, so you'd think he'd care more, or at least put on that face), but if you take into account everything we've said so far, you could still have a grand old time watching this movie. It's "cheap and cheerful" as they say, and there are plenty of fun and funny moments. Plus it has some memorable Steve McClintock music, as is common for AIP, and has a short running time of less than 80 minutes.Seemingly one of the more popular AIP titles, you might be able to find this at closing video stores or thrift shops. If you do, pick it up...but don't get on John Tucker's bad side.For more insanity, please visit: comeupppancereviews.com

zardoz-13 "Future Force" qualifies as a cheesy, predictable, low-budget action crime saga that delivers no surprises and resembles a modern-day, urban western rather than a futuristic tale about justice in Los Angeles. "Kill Bill" star David Carradine served as the associate producer so there is mystery as to why he appears in this tongue-in-cheek thriller, but the wonderful Robert Tessier of "The Longest Yard" provides the film with a few moments of fun. "Future Force" contains a modicum of nudity, and strippers chiefly furnish those fleeting moments in a bar named the DMZ where unsavory gun-totting civilian cops hang out between jobs. The special effects are really awful, with superimposed blue lines that spread like a spider web over whatever and laser beams that are straight blue lights. The biggest thing in his thriller occurs when a guy fires a LAWS rocket at a police helicopter and it vanishes in an explosion. The dialogue is forgettable, but "Jungle Assault" director David A. Prior keeps the mindless mayhem moving fast enough and shows a few interesting camera movements so "Future Force" doesn't stall out.The action unfolds with some lengthy exposition that sets up the world of "Future Force." According to the narrator: "In the year 1991, crime in America was out of control. Prisons were overloaded. Police forces were understaffed. Gun battles in city streets became common place. No one was safe. The cities had become the battlefields of the future and the criminals were winning the war. The public demanded change and the government responded. Police departments across the country were shut down, and law enforcement was handed over to private enterprise. Civilian Operated Police Systems, Incorporated., took over. Within two years crime was under control. The price, however, was a heavy one. For justice as we once knew it had ceased to exist." Former L.A.P.D. officer John Tucker (a paunchy David Carradine) is one of the best in the business. He has acquired a bad reputation for not bringing in any prisoners alive. The Miranda-style statement that he utters to each lawbreaker is amusing. "You've committed a crime. You're presumed guilty until proved innocent. You have the right to die. You choose to relinquish that right you'll be placed under arrest and put in prison." In his first encounter of many with a suspect, Tucker guns him down old West style in a fast draw showdown. The two other creeps that were with the suspect attack Tucker. He punches one in the balls and uses the club that they attacked him with to smash the other guy's face. When these two try to escape, Tucker wields a huge bionic glove that he wears over his hand and forearm to stop them from fleeing the scene in their car. The power of the bionic glove is so enormous Tucker can plant it on the roof of the car and hold the car still when the driver floors the accelerator and the tires spin. When Tucker releases the car to check his computer in his Cherokee Chief truck, the felons try to run him down and Tucker uses the laser built into the glove to flip the car. When he learns from his computer whiz go-between that the two guys in the wrecked car were guilty only of parking tickets, Tucker observes that they are about to be charged with another parking violation.Tucker has an onboard computer in his truck and the computer nerd who keeps him posted with updates about new criminals sits in a wheelchair. Tucker accidentally shot him when Billy (D.C. Douglas) was a six-year old and Tucker and his partner responded to a crime call at the kid's residence. Meanwhile, Jason Adams (William Zipp of "Operation Warzone") is the Chief Executive Officer in Charge and he doesn't have a qualm about killing people. The first time that we see him he has a rival tied up in a junk car. The rival begs Adams to let him go, but Adams sends him off to a car crushing machine to do a "Goldfinger" number on the guy. Becker (Robert Tessier of "The Longest Yard") serves as Adams' chief of security and he accompanies Adams anywhere. Adams is as corrupt as they come. He tries to get fifty percent of a mobster's action, but the mobster, Grimes, refuses to pay him. Eventually, the greedy Adams finds himself in a predicament when the Channel 3 News anchor girl, Marion Sims (Anna Rapagna of "The A-Team"), promises her viewers that she will feature an expose on Adams that concerns his illegal activities. An angry Adams has Becker put out an arrest warrant on Sims, but Billy intercepts it and channels it to Tucker and Tucker picks her up and tries to bring her in. Adams sends out other men to get the anchorwoman and Tucker guns down them. Adams has a warrant issued for Tucker and our hero finds himself on the run, too.The best scene in "Future Force" involves Tucker's use of the bionic glove. Just as Becker is about to plug him, Tucker produces the remote control unit for the glove that he has refused to use and activates it. The hatch of his Cherokee Chief flies up, the mechanical snap locks on the case pop open, and the glove zooms through the air and clamps onto Becker's neck.The screenplay by creator Thomas Baldwin and co-scenarist Prior is not without holes. After Adams calls criminal boss Grimes in for a conference and demands a 50 percent cut, we don't see Grimes again until he shoots down a helicopter menacing our heroes. The irony about Sims is that she only reads the news copy. Everything about this thriller is strictly routine, though Prior does handle some scene with a minimum of flair. Acting is not required and Carradine walks through his role with ease. Nevertheless, Tessier is always fun to watch.

Gabriel Dotson It's about an arrogant cop played by "David Carridine" whom protects a female reporter who knows too much. For that a ransom death sentence (or a bounty) has been put out on her life. It's the typical shoot 'em up and save the girl type of films.