Also known as Thunder Warrior, Drug Traffickers, and The Fury of the Warrior. Well, I was off in guessing filming locations. I guessed New Mexico and it was in fact Arizona.
There's a throwaway line in First Blood which I just rewatched where they are describing Rambo for some reason and they mention he is part Native American. This is part of the whole theme of the movie really, who else would have this intrinsic instilled knowledge of the land, of the rights and wrongs, of the truth behind society and why evil exists and... Yeah, its cause there was an unspoken truth at this point in time, Native meant mystic and we could write off bad writing with just that.
Thunder is an Italian production shot in Arizona with a few local stars like Bo Svenson, the plot concerns a near total rip off of Frist Blood as a partially Native American is dissed and beaten by the occupants of a local town, including the police therein, and then he basically goes postal to use the oft used phrase. A quarter or less of the dialogue from the film First Blood is employed, as we watch our main character fight the law, will the law win?
This movie is pretty boring, despite my seeming enthusiasm for it. It too often goes to overlong scenes of dubbed actors saying stupid dialogue. Our main character is gone for massive lengths of time with little to no explanation. There's very little progression of the story despite the seeming addition of tension with the idea of now he had a gun or now he has a car or now he has a tractor or whatever it is.
Thunder has the guy from the MST3K classic Escape the Bronx, and it is a fine movie to watch, its also gracefully under 90 minutes, but it is still too long and not very good. 1.5 stars.
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