This entertainingly cheesy adventure yarn which should be rightly named "attack of the ageing action heroes". Taking three 40-something "stars" and dropping them into a lightweight story which is an excuse for almost constant action sounds like good fun to me and the movie doesn't disappoint. My only complaint is that, as this is a television movie, there is no blood to be found anywhere in the film. Lots of people die, sure, but with no blood. Even a few broken bones but no blood to be seen anywhere which helps to destroy the little realism this movie had in the first place.The film opens with a "mini-mission" lasting half an hour which is kind of like a short film in itself. The team members (wittily calling themselves "S.O.S.") launch a stealth mission on a mountain in Austria to rescue a girl kidnapped by her own father. Lots of shoot-outs with guards and gun battles ensue, as well as a few cheap stunts. After this the plot begins afresh, quite incredibly, with good ol' Hulk tracking down a villain from his past and invading his mountain-top fortress too. The plot element is that Hulk has been injected in his neck with a poison that will kill him within 72 hours if he doesn't get the antidote. Cue lots of strenuous acting from Hulk and desperate races against time for the others.The movie is packed with lots of explosions, funny moments like a guy firing a rocket launcher at a fully-size rocket coming out of the ground, about a zillion bad guys getting gunned down at the finale and more over-the-top antics than you can shake a stick at. It's all great fun if not exactly brilliant film-making in action. My favourite scene is the COMMANDO rip-off when Hogan travels to some Far Eastern desert place and wastes a small army with a couple of Gatling guns. Speaking of Hulk, the wrestler-turned-actor isn't that bad in a serious role, and just as good as the Van Dammes and Lundgrens of today's straight-to-video flicks.The supporting cast is made up of Carl Weathers who enjoys himself as a tough mercenary-type warrior, climbing up vertical slopes and sweating frequently as he attempts to destroy deadly poison. Amusingly he doesn't seem to have aged in the decade since his earlier action antics. Shannon Tweed (a star of countless "late night" erotic films) is the female member of the team and Cassar takes ample opportunity to let his camera gaze at her body at every turn, and it's also amazing that she never seems to age much either. The supporting cast are about as good as to be expected for a film of this type, although Gerard Plunkett is a little too subdued as the evil bad guy. He definitely needs to be more villainous. Apart from that minor flaw, this is all you could want from a fun, cheesy B-movie.

Hulk saves the world, yet again. Like all of Hulk Hogans movies this is in the so bad it's good category. Naturally I wouldn't say that to his face. The one thing that stops this movie from excelling in that category though is that it has quite a few really revolting bits in it. For example, the fact that every single baddie of the two unconnected plots is a foreigner and every one of the morally good people is American.There's little point in pointing out odd behaviour by the characters or plot inconsistencies in a movie like this, but I will anyway. In the first plot, which really is just a filler because they didn't manage to pad out the 2nd plot to last for more than an hour, the good guys need to rescue a little girl who's been kidnapped by her Austrian dad from his American wife. The Austrian turns out to be majorly wealthy, but a foreigner so he deserves all that he gets, like having about 15 of his life guards shot while Hulk and the team rescue the little girl. A bit over the top or what? This plot also serves the film makers with an excellent opportunity to show as much cleavage as possible. This is achieved by having Shannon Tweed, disguised as a guest, sneak into the exclusive party the little girl's dad is holding at his estate. She gets to wear a necklace with a camera hidden inside so her necklace and of course her cleavage are shown in close up's a number of times. Pure genius.A common trait for really bad movies like this is the way Mister Evil's henchmen are disposed off. Naturally they're positioned all over the building but one single punch ALWAYS knocks them out cold, never to return to action for the rest of the movie. Unless of course there's a fight scene needed, then the baddies get hit over and over again before they finally get knocked out. Similarly, the baddies can fire machine gun rounds after rounds at the good guys without a single hit while the good guys need one single shot to dispose of entire armies. Unless the baddie has had a bit of screen time, then he'll be much harder to kill. Also, like in all bad action movies, either the number one or number two baddie will be totally cruel and evil when he's got the good guy tied up but will become a shivering coward once the roles are reversed.I don't know, I'm probably not who this movie is marketed at (I shudder to think of the target audience) but I'd find it much more interesting if the baddies actually had a reason to be evil. They're always evil for no reason which makes them cartoon characters. But then, every single character in this movie is a cartoon character.So, in conclusion. Good for a chuckle but not really a truly good, bad film.

I wasn't sure what to exspect from this movie, but I like Navy SEALs. Hogan impressed me with this role. All this movie needed was a little tweeking to make it a kick ass flick. Some of the scenes were a little much. Example: Hogan attacking a terrorist camp alone with a gun in each hand. They needed to get Richard Marcinko the "Rogue Warrior" to be tech adviser. Hogan's character seems to want to be like Marcinko but just can't make it. However I did like this flick and would like to find the first movie to compare them. It was a worth while rental.

This is the movie that's out as "Shadow Warriors" on video (Blockbuster carries it as: "Shadow Warriors - 1997 - Hulk Hogan"). Apparently this is the second adventure with this group.A former adversary who tried to kill Hogan and his men with biological warfare isn't dead, and has re-surfaced. Hogan goes out alone to fight him, and get injected with a deadly virus that gives him only 72 hours to live. The team goes into action to hunt the madman down, stop his evil plan, and save the Hulkster's life.Not a bad movie, except with Hogan "dying", he isn't his usual kick-butt self. He still takes 'em down, just not as energetically. Tweed and Weathers help keep the action going, and Kove is a trip. It's not award winning material, just good old action fun. Enjoy.