The Bad Pack (1997)
A band of mercenaries are hired to combat a militia terrorizing a group of Mexican immigrants in a Texas border town.
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Really Surprised!
good back-story, and good acting
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Well, whilst I hesitate to say anything good about this film, I think it may just slip into the 'so bad it's good' category. Without a doubt the worst film I have ever watched in my life, I can still remember where I was when I watched it, and whom I watched it with, well over a decade on. This is a film that skips effortlessly up the K2 of bad film-making, blissfully unaware of quite what a difficult achievement it is to combine wooden characters and lines, amateur effects, clichés and anticlimax, all the time without tripping up and straying into parody. Amazing.
OK, let me start with the best (if not the only good) thing in this movie: Shawn Huff. I don't know if the word "WOW" is enough to describe her. Her portrayal of an expert markswoman / assassin is picture-perfect, and she delivers with conviction such lines as (after shooting two guys point-blank) "Hell yeah I think you're afraid of me!". I think she is Brent Huff's wife, but she's so good in her role that I don't care if she got it only because of that. The rest of the film, however, is one disappointment after another: Roddy Piper is an ex-wrestler. Does he fight in the movie? No. A big German guy is shown at first as an underground fighter. Does he have any more fights? No. The villains (a para-military group) are shown training during the opening credits. Do they get to put their training to use? No. And so on. The action (what little there is of it) is of generally poor quality, apart from a few decent motorcycle stunts. Ultimately, "The Bad Pack" is the poor man's "The Magnificent Seven" (*)
Hmmmm, a small town of peaceful farmers is taken over by bandits who force them to do what they want, and give them all of their food and supplies.No, I am not talking about Seven Samuri, nor the western remake The Magnificent Seven. I am not even talking about the Disney remake A Bug's Life.Except instead of 7, there are only 5 or 6 heros in this movie. And instead of Yul Brynner we get Roddie Piper. He does an OK job of acting, but the tired worn out script was so bad, nobody could have saved it.I can only say that I bought the DVD for $3 on sale, and the movie was worth the $3. But I would not pay anything more for this thing.
Albeit not a horrible film, it wasn't a good film either. A plethora of stereotypes (The cool leader, the insane guy, the ice-cold assassin chick, the happy-go-lucky guy, the introspective muscleman, the computer geek) are paraded out and put through a typical A-Team adventure involving some really badly acted white supremist survivalists who are terrorizing a Tex-Mex boarder town. This is the type of screenplay one knocks out during a slow television night.