The Bad Pack (1997)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Brent Huff

Writers:

Brent Huff (writer)
Douglas L. Walton (writer)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

Bad to the Bone

Plot:

Mexican immigrants in a small Texas border town, under attack by a local militia group, hire a band of mercenaries to protect them. |

Plot Keywords:

Mercenary | Militia | Mexican | Explosive | Mental Hospital

Cast

Robert Davi	...	McQue
Roddy Piper	...	Dash Simms
Ralf Moeller	...	Kurt Mayer
Larry B. Scott	...	Jeremy Britt
Shawn Huff	...	Remi Sykes
Patrick Dollaghan	...	Latrell Hoffman
Brent Huff	...	Callin
Marshall R. Teague	...	Lamont Sperry
Daniel Zacapa	...	Hector Chavez
Bert Rosario	...	Jose Chavez
Michael Cole	...	Fredrickson
Jeep Swenson	...	Missouri Mule
Sven-Ole Thorsen	...	Sven
Vernon Wells	...	Biker
Cristan Crocker-Reilly	...	Carmen

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Germany:18 | USA:R

Company:

Sandwedge Films

Trivia:

Jeep Swenson's last film.

Quotes:

Sven: [to a soldier with a red dot on his forehead] What's on your forehead?
Remi Sykes: [pointing her laserscoped gun at them] What are you boys doing?
Sven: [points his gun at her] Drop the gun!
Remi Sykes: Well looks like we've got a Mexican standoff here.
Sven: So you think I'm scared of you, huh? Bitch!
[she shoots them both]
Remi Sykes: Hell yes I think you're afraid of me.

Bad is the word alright

Unfortunately, this movie is a totally missed opportunity. At first, it looked really interesting. A team of mercenaries was going to Texas to take on some right wing white trash people. It showed a lot of promise when the leader of the mercenaries was doing his recruiting of different characters. With people like Robert Davi, Ralph Moeller and Roddy Piper, this is going to be fun at the end, I thought. But no. The movie just goes on and on without nothing really happening except boring dialogue and lots of preparations.

Take Roddy Piper, for example. Almost all he does here is being a driver. Really disappointing. And Ralph Moeller, who is some sort of a fighting champion in the beginning, never fights again in the movie. He is totally under-utilized, and only talks and delivers a few gunshots near the end. The guy was great in Best of the Best 2, so I just don't understand what he was doing here.

The last action scene that the whole movie was building up on is just terrible and utter trash. I guess this movie got killed off because of the budget, and overall it must have been braindead people being responsible for this. One of the right wing guys even speaks with an accent!!!

Stay away from this, unless you have to watch every action movie ever made.