Filmed without a lick of style or an ounce of substance, Death
Machines still comes across as a pretty entertaining flick. When
Asian crime lord Madame Lee (Mari Honjo) hooks up with Mafioso type,
Mr. G. (Chuck Kizakian), she makes him an offer he can't refuse. She'll
help him take down some of the more unscrupulous folk and he'll, uh,
do something for her. Seems Madame Lee has concocted a serum that
makes man an unstoppable killing machine and she injects three beefcake
types who look like they just walked off the set of a Harry Reems
flick. The assassins slaughter a bunch of people for no reason, including
a karate instructor and his students. She says "make sure there
are no witnesses," and you wonder why they didn't just show up
after hours! Alas, one tough as nails student survives, but loses
his hand in the battle. He gets really P.O.'ed and seeks his revenge
on the Village People. Oops! I mean the Death Machines!
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I
wish this pyramid scheme was in the film.
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Pure schlock the whole way, director Paul Kyraiazi
began his career with this opus and ended it about 14 years later
with Omega Cop. I'm betting he's learned nothing along the
way, and I'm grateful. There really is an art to the so-bad-it's-good
flick and he's given us his all with this wonderful exploitationer.
Mari must have been screwing the producer, because not only can
she NOT act, but she can barely speak English! When she's told her
machines fled the scene of a crime, she cries "Fred?!?"
But the really scary part is that I see bits of Lucy Liu's character
from Kill Bill in our phonetically challenged crime boss.
See it and judge for yourself.
The DVD boasts a new digital full frame
transfer, but it looks more like an old video copy. So Rhino threw
in a cool little trailer to make this a little less than a bare
bones package. Still, it's a must for trashy cinema connoisseurs.
(Click
Here for DVD's Technical Specs)
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