The 90s was an open door opportunity for martial artists when it came to action movies. I mean you couldn’t channel surf without running into a movie where its main lead is a martial artist. From Cynthia Rothrock to Billy Blanks to Jackie Chan to Oliver Gruner to Gary Daniels; you name it they’ve starred in a movie. And there’s today movie starring Don “The Dragon” Wilson WKA World Kickboxing Champion. No joke that’s how they listed him in the opening credits. You’re wondering why I’m reviewing the sixth movie in the Bloodfist series. Well it’s because I had no idea this was a sequel when I watched this as a kid; plus I’m more familiar with it than the others. Will I review the rest of the Bloodfist series? Well……I wouldn’t get my hopes for now.
We open at nuclear missile base, A-14 Ellsworth as we cut to a naked military officer, Tori (played by Catya Sassoon). Wow 2 minutes and 27 seconds in and already a nude scene that’s really impressive. Anyway we cut to a field a few miles from the base as a truck arrives and two armed men released some rabbits. Apparently the rabbits have trapped the alarms to distract security as the two armed sneak into an underground linking station and hack into the missile control room in sub level 2. Cut to highway as we’re introduced to Sgt. Nick Corrigan (played by Don “The Dragon” Wilson) en route to A-14 to deliver a package. Cut to the main gate at A-14 as an RV arrives at scene. One of the guards tells the old man to leave but the man panics saying that his wife’s not breathing. The guard enters the RV to check on the wife but it turns out to be a trap as the old man guns him down and a group of armed men approved out of hiding. One of the armed men sneaks up on the other guard and snaps his neck in a 180. Gees, is this guy related to Jason Voorhees or something? Anyway he hacks into the main gate security camera; creating a video loop to the main security station in the base. The armed men have entered A-14 via elevator and proceed to eliminate the base personal. As for the old man well he’s not an old man exactly, but Fawkes (played by Jonathan Fuller) in disguise. In the missile control room one of the missile control personal is not getting any response from up top and the two armed themselves. The second missile control personal, Major Paul Tillman (played by Steve Garvey) hides away his launch key which along with the second key activates the missile launch. Fawkes and his men arrived at missile control room, killing one of the missile control personal and obtained one of the keys.
After they set up shop, Fawkes’ men have completely linked into the missile control computers and are now obtaining the launch codes. However, the codes mean nothing without BOTH keys. So Fawkes tries to brutally persuade Tillman into telling him where the second key is but Tillman refuses to talk. Fawkes then resorts to threaten Tillman’s little squeeze Tori by cutting off her tongue but gets interrupted by a call from the main gate. It’s Nick who has just arrived at the main gate to drop off a package to Tillman and needs his signature. Fawkes’ men suggest to just kill Nick but his tech guy Sabian (played by Marcus Aurelius) opposes that idea given that if Nick doesn’t report to S.A.C. they may get suspicious and change the launch codes. With no choice, Fawkes allows Nick inside the base; little does he know that Tillman manages to get the key unnoticed before leaving the control room. Inside some of Fawkes’ men are disguised as base personal as Nick gets off the elevator and delivers the package to Tillman. Tillman takes the package, gives his signature and Nick leaves. Tillman is taken back to the control room and Fawkes once again asked where the key is; this time he threatens to shoot Tori if he doesn’t answer. Tillman still refuses; Tori begs him to tell them where the key is but he says that it’s gone already. This pisses her off and for some reason grabs a gun and shoots Tillman in the shoulder; apparently she’s working for Fawkes. Fawkes realizes that Nick may have the key and orders his man at the gate to stop him. Cut to topside as Nick gets back to his jeep with some suspicion; he checks his hat to the missile key as he see in jeep mirror of the fake guard sneaking up behind him. The fake guard orders him to get out of the jeep and he complies but before he got the chance to kill him Nick quickly disarms him and the two fight. The fake guard has the upper hand but Nick soon fights back and snaps his neck on a ladder. But it’s not over yet as two more of Fawkes’ men arrived and open fire on Nick. Armed with only the fake guard’s revolver, Nick shoots back and kills one of them. Now you gonna love movie inconsistences as we notice Nick fires all six shots yet somehow manage to fire four extra shots. Anyway back in the control room Tillman activates the Emergency Defense System; locking down the base. Which means Fawkes and some of his men are trapped in the missile control room while the rest are trapped in the elevator. Of course Fawkes didn’t appreciate that so much and shoots Tillman dead. Back topside Nick is still pinned down until the gunman hits the jeep’s gas tank. Nick quickly flees from the jeep before it explodes. With one good knife throw to chest, Nick takes out the gunman and radios dispatch to contact S.A.C.
Cut to the S.A.C. (Strategic Air Command) base in Nebraska, we’re introduced to a Major Marin (played by Robin Curtis) as she’s attending a meeting with General “Dipshit” Carmichael (played by Wynn Irwin) I call him dipshit because he kinda is and an asshole. Anyway they’re notified that they’ve lost contact with A-14 and the missile control override is disabled. Carmichael is not too convinced that someone has taken over the compound but just in case, he orders an alert status and to have Special Forces on the compound. Back at A-14 Sabian is working on getting the systems back on; he managed to get the elevator back on; freeing Tori and Ahmad (played by Michael Blanks). Nick hears the elevator opening and goes hiding into a room. Ahmad hears a glass cup hitting the floor from the room and goes to check. Nick attacks him from behind but Ahmad proceeds to HULK SMASH Nick. Ahmad has him in an unbreakable bear hug but one kick to the balls and Nick breaks free; knocking him out. Tori shows up to the scene but Nick doesn’t know that she’s on Fawkes’ side; giving her the opportunity to use him to get the key. Nick managed to get through to S.A.C. informing Marin that he has the key and about Fawkes. Marin informs him that Special Forces are on the way and have Nick to stay put until then. Nick gives Tori a gun; she’s about to shoot him but apparently the gun is empty. Looks like Nick’s mother didn’t raise a fool but unfortunately Fawkes gets the drop on him. Fawkes has obtained the second launch key and orders his men to kill Nick as he heads back to the missile control room. Nick managed to get away but gets shot in the arm as two of Fawkes men goes after him. Back at the missile control room Sabian has obtained half of the launch codes as Fawkes gives him one of the launch keys. So now the terrorists have activated the launch sequence; a waiting for the complete launch codes.
Fawkes contacts S.A.C. demanding one hundred million dollars in gold or he’ll launch the nuke. Nick makes it to a storage room and tries to patch up his gunshot wound. The two men are still after him now approaching the storage room. Nick gets the drop on them but struggles to keep up. He knocks out one of them while the other grabs an Uzi. Nick tries to snatch away the Uzi only to flesh wound him and runs away; the wounded gunman makes it back to control room. Tori has enough of this and goes after Nick; accompanied by a few of Fawkes’ men. Cut to topside as Special Forces arrived at the base along with Marin and Carmichael. Marin managed to get in touch with Nick guiding him to the electronics bay to set up some countermeasures; trying to delay the launch as much as possible. A little bit later a small infantry of Special Forces have entered A-14 via elevator but that proved to be futile as they are blown up by an explosive at the elevator exit. Although this doesn’t seem to bother Fawkes as has finally obtained the launch codes. Nick it’s at the electronics bay and just in time to stop one of Fawkes men from rigging a bomb. This guy is a pretty tough customer but Nick eventually defeats him; very shortly after Nick shoots down another guy as he entered the room. Back at missile control room Sabian inputs a few major U.S. cities as targets for the nukes. They’re ready to negotiate but Fawkes however, is playing for keeps as he’s about to push the launch button. Sabian stops him demanding that they should get the money and leave but Fawkes has other plans as he stabs Sabian to death. Fawkes activates the launch sequence with only 60 seconds before the nukes launch. Fortunately however, before the countdown reaches zero the launch sequence has been aborted. Apparently Nick was able to activate the launch override and just in time too.
Back topside Carmichael orders an airstrike just as Nick reports to Marin; she tells him that he must stop the launch manually before the backup kicks in and before the airstrike arrives to destroy the base. Nick takes out two remaining Fawkes’ men leaving with Tori left standing as she puts some night vision goggles and shoots a fuse box cutting off the lights. She has Nick cornered in a storage room and goes for the kill but he shines a flashlight at her; temporary blinding her. But it’s just enough for him to get behind her and knock her unconscious. As Nick makes his way to control room, the backup system has start up and Fawkes is about to push the button. Nick arrives to the control room and a shot gunfight breaks out; resulting Nick getting wounded. Fawkes knocks him down and pushes the launch button restarting the launch. Nick just gets right back up and beats the shit out of Fawkes. Nick contacts Marin to get the about codes with only 16 second left. Nick types down the code as Marin tells him the codes but for some the last number isn’t working. What the hell is the Caps Lock on or is the computer being a picky bitch. So Nick picks up an Uzi and shoots the computers and somehow that stops the launch, apparently. OK I don’t think shooting the computer that controls the missile stops it from launching it would still launch anyway. Whatever the bad guys are defended and the country is saved; movie over.
My Final Verdict: This movie is like a low-budget Under Siege, none of the seriousness yet all of the fun action and that’s not a bad thing. Also with a few rewrites it could’ve made a decent Metal Gear movie……what…..it could’ve. Don Wilson’s performance is wouldn’t say average but not bad either; sorta like he’s acting is good yet he’s still improving. Don is like the low-budget Chuck Norris when he starred in a plethora of movies back in 90s. Some of them I may have seen so I’ll be definitely review them in the future.
Well it’s time for a short recess in prep for something special on February 6th, so until then stay tuned.
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