¨Hunter of the apocalypse¨ or ¨Héros d'apocalypse¨or ¨Cacciatore 2¨is set during the Vietnam war, an American soldier, Captain Henry Morris (David Warbeck) , gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of buddies (Bobby Rhodes , Tony King , who are accompanied by a reporter : Tisa Farrow) sets out to rescue him . Later on , the group arrives in a headquarter commanded by a stranger commandant , Major William Cash (John Steiner) . After that , captain Henry is trapped in Vietnam jungle , tortured , beaten, and still he fights. The Brutal Story of One Man's Fight for Survival Behind Enemy Lines. You're living a nightmare... in a hell hole they call Nam! The Most Horrific War Movie Ever Made!The screen explodes in a blazing spectacle of war, there was no escape for... THE LAST HUNTER
This moving film packs frantic thrills , perilous adventures , relentless feats , buck-loads of explosive action and violent events . This one isn't a film against the Vietnam War , but an entertaning and amusing movie full of noisy action , gore and violence . Medium budget European war film that lost continuity with US cuts . The noisy action is uniformly well-made , especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes in which the motley group is really besieged by the Vietcong , including some spectacular shootouts and blowing up . Anthony M Dawson or Margheritti as expert in special optical effects and model-making , that's why he provides a lot of explosion , crossfire , gory images , guts and mayhem . David Warbeck is the leader in this thrilling Vietnam wartime movie about a commando getting to carry out a deadly assignment . During the 1970s Warbeck became a popular European star of low-budget genre pictures made in Italy, the U.S. and England. His notable films include Antonio Margheriti's Teasure island of the outer space (1987) , Tiger Joe , Black cat , The Ark of the Sun God , Rat man , Formula for a murder and Luci Fulci's Beyond (1981) . Warbeck made his final film appearance in Jake West's Razor Blade Smile (1998) . He early died of cancer in 1997 , London , aged just 55 years-old . He is well supported by a fine plethora of B-actors and regular in Italian sub-genres such as Bobby Rhodes , Tony King , Massimo Vanni , John Steiner , Luciano Pigozzi as Alan Collins who's nicknamed the Italian Peter Lorre playing a Bartender.
Atmospheric cinematography by cameraman Riccardo Pallottini who unfortunately died in a plane crash during location filming in the Philippines, in fact the movie is dedicated to him . Being shot on location exteriors were filmed in the Philippines and the interiors scenes shot in Rome. The motion picture was professionally directed by terror/action/adventure expert Antonio Margheritti, though it displays some failures and flaws . Anthonio was assisted by his son : Edoardo Margheriti who served as second unit filmmaker . Antonio often used pseudonym Anthony M Dawson, he was born in Italy 1930 and passed away in 2002 . Italian writer director of horror and exploitation films, a former university engineering student who began shooting in 1956 . Antonio directs with ordinary aplomb and being especially known for films as Yor, Virus and Horror castle. He was specialist in model-making, optical effects , FX, miniature as floods, scale models and explosions . He directed all kinds of genres such as wartime : The last hunter, Tornado, Codename Wild geese, Der Commander, Command Leopard . SCIFi :War of planets , Planet of the prowl, Criminal of the galaxy, Yor the hunter from the future, Treasure planet . Spaghetti Western as Joko, Dynamite Joe, The stranger and the gunfighter, Take a hard ride, Ghosts go west, Joe implacable, God said to Cain . Terror as Virgin of Nuremberg, Cannibal Apocalypse, Alien from deep, Flesh for Frankenstein. Action : Operation Goldman, Indio, The squeeze, Cyberflic. Rating :5.5/10. Acceptable and passable.
