A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and left for dead. Now he wants his revenge...
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Thunder, a Navajo real American badass, returns to his hometown, and discovers an old Indian burial ground is now being commercially developed. This doesn't sit well with him. He takes it up with the police, and they kick him out of town. Well, what do you think happens next? A roughneck group of sadistic construction workers might draw FIRST BLOOD, but in the end, we all know Thunder is about to go JOHN RAMBO on anyone who gets in his way. Thunder stars the one and only Mark Gregory, and it features one of my main fellas, Bo Svenson, as the Sheriff in charge of the manhunt to bring Thunder to justice. Yes, it's Rambo, without Sly, bandanas, a Vietnam…
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After being pushed too far, just like Rambo, our hero Thunder goes all one man army on the local police force who are as inept as they are racist. Story wise it’s almost beat for beat like First Blood and the acting is pretty bad but this is an exploitation flick, so cheesy action is fine with me. We get car chases that lead to car crashes, bow and arrows, rocket launchers, and scalped white men. This is an Italian film and the dubbing is hilarious. If you love Italian films, Rambo knock-offs, Mark Gregory (1990 Bronx Warriors) and the American Southwest, then follow Thunder on his war path!
... Denn auf Blitz folgt Donner ...
Ich glaube mittlerweile hat man so meine Vorliebe für olle B-Action Kamellen aus den 80ern mitbekommen. Hier reiht sich naturlamente auch dieser FIRST BLOOD - Italo Rip Off relativ weit vorne mit ein. Der zum Zeitpunkt des Drehs knapp 17-18 Jahre alte Mark Gregory stakst wie schon in THE RIFFS das Jahr zuvor, ausgenommen hüftsteif und ungelenk daher. Die paar wenigen Einlagen in denen er physisch werden muss geraten dadurch in einen eher lachhaften Bereich, und man nimmt ihm das Schauspiel auch nicht so recht ab. In der Mitte des Filmes taucht er dann auch mal für fast 30 Minuten komplett unter, und das bei einem Film der gerade einmal 79 Minuten netto…
Charisma vacuum Mark Gregory is Thunder. Son of the son of Night Eagle (his grandpa then), he returns home to find his sacred Navajo land being built over and his people forced out. Facing persecution from the townsfolk and particularly the police, he goes on a one man mission to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Fabrizio De Angelis' riff on First Blood doesn't try to disguise its intentions, matching the original pretty much beat for beat. The only tweak being the Native American flavour added and the Arizona desert setting. This is good fun. I mean, you really don't have to switch on at all to engage with it. It zips along with plenty of incident and…
The people of Page, Arizona must have been bewildered when an Italian film crew dropped into their tiny little town in 1982 to shoot a First Blood rip-off. They might have recognized and even been excited to see Bo Svenson, but you wonder what they would have thought of Mark Gregory, the obviously gay Italian action hero who can't act to save his life but does a good job driving a bulldozer through half a dozen of the town's buildings. This is fairly typical Italian action of the era, but the American locations and the First Blood script make it a little more special. Not overly exciting but a fun watch.
Part 1 of an Italian Rambo knockoff double feature viewing. This flick stars Mark Gregory (1990: The Bronx Warriors/Escape from the Bronx) in the lead role, and he’s a 50/50 fusion of John Rambo and Billy Jack in an Arizona desert town. Bo Svenson inverts his role as Sheriff Buford Pusser in the Walking Tall sequels by standing in for Brian Dennehy from the original First Blood. Outside of that, the movie is content to follow the beats of plenty of “outlaw vs. lawmen” westerns, yet adds a 1970s protest-focused subject matter. The Red Power movement was huge from 1969-1978 and included multiple occupations, and outside of that, faith in police was dwindling as their role in systemic racism and…
A pure rip off picture that delivers a carbon copy of FIRST BLOOD, keeping its foot on the gas the entire time as a blow ‘em up stunt spectacular that’d make Hal Needham jealous. By the time our persecuted Native American protag is firing a bazooka at Bo Svenson and the rest of the racist Arizona cops on his tail, you’re fully cheering him on while wondering where the Hell all those explosive shells actually came from. Less than eighty minutes of uncut exploitation bliss.
Fantastic! This feature felt like it was made ten years before it actually was—which is more than obvious once you learn its proximity to Rambo: First Blood’s release (a year after.)
It really is just a reimagining of the same premise and archetypical characters—but I don’t care, it rules. Thunder lives and breathes “fuck around and find out” only to be met by his “do I look like I give a fuck” attitude.
This 👏 Dude 👏 Respects 👏 His 👏 Ancestors 👏
We could all learn a little something from the great grandson of the Night Eagle.
There is a sequel!! https://boxd.it/4HgS
I was going thru my uncle's old vhs-tapes, I love the cover art on those 80's flicks .. many of them really are works of art 😍 tho, more often than not, it doesn't depict an actual scene from the movie 😆
This one had a cover that just screamed my name .. and it actually was from the movie, kind of 🤭.
It's got one of my fav kinds of storylines .. a lone hero comes along and turns the table some cowardly bullies .. and then some .. after all, never confuse kindness with weakness!
These despicable racist, sexist and rapists were all deserving of the Thunderous beat-down and ultimate vengeance they were on the receiving end off,…
Gooo Thunder!! You just kill all these white people.. they had it coming!!
Sometimes when a movie has a large cast, it is difficult to figure out who you should be rooting for. That's not the case with Thunder though! Here you are either good or bad, with absolutely no in between whatsoever. The cops? Evil abusers of power (duh!) All those construction workers? Evil assholes! That lovely old lady walking down the street? Evil racist!
Thank you Fabrizio di Angelis for making it so easy for me. Sometimes I don't want to think too much you know!
Sure, Thunder is a cheap and over the top First Blood knockoff, but at least we get the satisfaction of our hero defeating all that trash.
First Blood with a Native American in place of a Vietnam Veteran.
And shit in place of plot and dialogue.
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A Rambosploitation movie
In First Blood Part II somebody mentions that Rambo is "of Indian-German descent". I was never sure if that meant "Native American" or "from India", but for Thunder there is no such ambiguity. Also, he started using a bow and arrow two years before Rambo did.
