Other commenters here have compared this to "Rambo," and it did come out early in the cycle of cheap Rambo imitations. But it's at least as much like "Walking Tall," in that the upstanding ornery cop (or ex-cop in this case) moves to a small hick town and immediately runs afoul of the good-old-boy louts running amuck there. His long-lost daughter shows up uninvited, and when the bullies kill one of her friends, they spend the rest of the movie's second more "Rambo"-like half stalking father and daughter through the surrounding wilderness in order to eliminate the remaining witnesses.This is fairly well-paced but not as much fun as you might hope. The dubbed dialogue is sort of funny-it's the usual bad Italian approximation of what Americans sound like, read by actors sporting very hokey "redneck" accents-but the film is an adequate, earnest "B" rather than luridly ridiculous and entertaining in the mode of many later "Rambo" knockoffs or 80s Italian exploitation films in general. Nor is the action or violence very memorable. My favorite exploitation actor George Eastman aka Luigi Montefiori turns up playing the main villain's sympathetic older brother, a much more low-key role than usual for him and not a very interesting one. Michael Sopkiw, the U.S. actor who was never able to parlay his stardom in these early-80s Italian movies into an American career, is handsome (here with a big Marlboro Man 'stache) and agreeable-enough as usual. Anyway, it's an OK time-killer but nothing special. Lamberto Bava does a decent job, but his 80s giallos and "Demon" movies are more memorable. Fans of the period will enjoy the disco-synthy score, though the fact that the film actually was shot in the U.S. (Georgia) makes it less obviously a European imitation of an American movie than most similar Italian enterprises around the same time. By the way, the irrelevant title was originally intended for a science-fiction movie that the funding fell through for. I guess some marketing materials had already been prepared, so to save costs they kept the title when the entire project was changed into this less-expensive rural action thriller.

How many movies were inspired by the horror classic "the most dangerous game" ?Even such recent works as Gibson's "Apocalypto" were . This one is not worse than the others ,and if the two leads had shown more emotion ,had they "played" ,it could have been even endearing.As an action movie ,it's moderately entertaining ,with a hackneyed screenplay -just one thing "happens" which would not generally happen in this kind of superman flick-And it's after "it " happens that the movie has nothing more in store for the viewer.Well filmed in nice landscapes which recall " Deliverance" another movie "blastfighter" borrows from.And the same horrible cliché that claims that country people are savage uneducated brutes.

Lamberto Bava; a director often passed off as merely the trash-making son of one of cinema's finest directors, and Michael Sopkiw; a memorable actor that makes a big impression every time he's on screen; even though he unfortunately wasn't on screen all that often. The pairing of these two might have been considered a match made in heaven if only they didn't make the awful Devil Fish together earlier in the same year. Instead of ripping off Jaws, this time they've decided to rip off action films; particularly, it would seem, Rambo, and the result is better; albeit it still not without problems. The plot focuses on a former cop named Jake 'Tiger' Sharp (I can only hope that isn't a tribute to the Bava/Sopkiw Jaws rip-off), a former cop who went down for murdering his wife's murderer. He gets back into town and quickly strikes up a war with a dumb bunch of deer hunters whose hunting more closely resembles slaughter. It's not long before the relationship between the ex-cop and the hunters take a turn for the worse when a man is killed.As is the case with the other three movies starring Michael Sopkiw; he is the best thing about the film. He stars alongside George Eastman and the two provide good examples of rugged action men. The problem with Sopkiw is, however, that it's really very hard to take him seriously; and that does impact on the movie more than just a little bit. As is often the case with cheap action movies; the dialogue here often verges on ridiculous, and while that suits the lead actor very well; it doesn't suit everyone in the film and sometimes it's downright cringe-worthy. The title is more than a little bit misleading too; from the title, I was expecting something more along the lines of futuristic shooting movie; so beware if that's what you're going in looking for! I can't say that the plot or any of the characters hold much weight and really I didn't care much about most of what goes on in the film; but the macho posturing and general fighting is at least entertaining and that's really all you can ask for in a movie like this. Overall, considering how rare this film is; I wouldn't say it's worth going out of your way for it, but it is at least worth a look.

The always fun to watch Michael Sopkiw stars in this highly enjoyable action yarn. In it he plays an ex police officer who having just been released from an eight year prison sentence, now seeks the solitude of the great outdoors. However, with a film title such as Blastfighter, you can bet your bum that solitude is a luxury that our hero won't be attaining.Sure enough he finds himself in a heated dispute with some local rednecks who repeatedly antagonise him after he attempts to interfere with their cruel deer poaching activities. This initial antagonising eventually escalates to attempted murder and later on, the actual murder of one of our hero's friends plus our hero's estranged daughter's boyfriend (whoa, that was quite a mouthful!)Matters reach a dramatic peek when the daughter herself is also killed thus finally sending our hero over the edge..... It is at this point that in true Rambo style he takes drastic action and basically kills every one of the scumbags! To aid him with this joyous task our man utilises a rather nifty shotgun that fires multiple projectiles such as explosives, smoke grenades, darts etc. (COOL!!!)The climax of the picture has our hero up against the legendary George Eastman who plays the BIG brother of the head redneck.What can I say, this is a really satisfying movie with some stunning location shooting and in addition, plenty of shooting of the ammunition kind! Sopkiw gives probably his best performance and makes for a very sympathetic hero. It's such a shame that he retired as an actor after only four films. If there is one criticism I would level at the film however, then it is that although the special weapon our hero carries is supposedly the main draw of this film (as regards the advertising at least) it is only actually used proper in the final 15 or so minutes of the running time. In addition, despite a fair number of cool explosions, these final scenes are not handled as spectacularly as perhaps one might have hoped for (although the scene where our hero blows off a mans arm at point blank range is pretty awesome!)Still, as a whole, as I previously said, this is solidly entertaining stuff and I wholeheartedly recommend it to all serious action fans.....Now where can I get one of those guns from?