Military patrol: "Are you out of your mind?"

Nikolai: "No. Just out of bullets."

The meeting of Nikolai the Soviet killing machine with Mohopstan the bushman, another wonder of human physique, is a cinematic highlight.

excelent for action
Review date: 2002-04-29 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film is great if you enjoy low budget action flicks. Dolph Lundgren, is perfectly suited for the impassive ‘man of action, not words’ Nicoli. Although not his best performance by a country mile, he speaks accurate Russian at times and the accent is very good. But the actor that really brings this film to a new level, is M. Emmet Walsh, who plays the eternally angry Dewy Fergerson, who coins so many great B-movie one liners in the film that it would bring a tear of joy to any action junky. The story line is quite good and all makes sense, although the film would have done well to develop it further. To conclude, if you enjoy a film, which is both cheesy, but has a good plot then this is defiantly the film for you. Not for the faint-hearted.

A very entertaining film
Review date: 2002-03-09 Rating: 8 out of 10

Dolph Lundgren is on top form as Lt. Nikolai Rachenko, a Soviet Special Forces agent sent to Africa to assassinate a rebel leader. As the film progresses and he witnesses unnecessary brutality towards the natives, he begins to sympathize with the rebel cause and question his loyalty to their oppressors, which allows for interesting character development.
T.P. McKenna is also good as General Vortek, Nikolai's cold-hearted commander (though his accent wavers from time to time), and M. Emmet Walsh provides great comic relief as Dewey, an American journalist who is forced to reconsider his view of Russians as merciless killing machines as he gets to know Nikolai.
All in all this is a very entertaining film, with never a dull moment and a touch of humour, that will keep viewers riveted until its action-packed conclusion.

A guaranteed waste of time
Review date: 2001-09-17 Rating: 2 out of 10

I can still remember watching this movie for the first and last time - trying to kill some time in LA I turned to my fellow Swede Dolph Lundgren for some entertainment. Dolph plays a russian soldier who during the Afghan campaign realizes that he's on the wrong side, turns on his own officers and troops and does a low-budget Rambo III. Even Dolph manages to fall below expectation in this movie. The Poster artist should get a pay raise for making this film seem even remotely worth watching.

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