Sci-Fighters

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Summary: Drago delivers in Sci-Fighters
Review: "Sci-Fighters" provides plenty of action with Billy Drago (The Untouchables) giving one of his best "creepy" performances. Co-star Roddy Piper (They Live) is at his best as a detective hunting down a virus-infected alien mutant (Drago). Though low-budget, it is fast moving, has a good storyline and good special effects. And Mr.Drago, giving his character an obsessive, psychotic-style behavior combined with an alien deformity, gives you the creeps. Jane Heitmeyer (Earth:Final Conflict) plays the doctor trying to stop the virus and end's up finding herself pursued by the alien. This is a must have for all fans of Mr. Drago and lovers of sci-fi.

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Summary: A Good Futuristic Film
Review: If anyone is swayed by the almost funny title of "Sci-Fighters," then they are wrong in not seeing this film. Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion "Rowdy" Roddy Piper plays a very good part in Cameron, a part not unlike his character in "They Live", another cult favorite of mine.

This film is for anyone who likes futuristic adventures like "Screamers", "Blade Runner," or "RoboCop". It has some of the best visual effects in a film with the backgrounds and the fight scenes. Although you can see where they dubbed some of the foul language in the establishing scenes, it is a good film for the cult film arcives.

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Summary: Roddy's all-time best movie.
Review: In this futuristic thriller, the earth is blanketed in the darkness of the "Eco Night" and really bad convicts are sent to prison on the moon. Roddy Piper plays Boston cop Cameron Grayson whose wife Katie was raped and murdered by his ex-partner Adrian Dunn. Adrian is, of course, serving time on the moon until he becomes infected with an alien virus that makes Ebola look like chicken pox. Dunn mutates into a REALLY gross bad dude and heads for earth, thinking in his demented alien state that Katie will be there waiting for him. He attacks and infects several women, attracting the attention of the Boston Center for Disease Control's lovely Dr. Kirbie Younger, who coincidentally looks a lot like Katie. Cameron and Kirbie work together to stop Dunn. I absolutely LOVE this movie. This is the first time we really see Roddy Piper as an actor, NOT as a wrestler who acts. He doesn't just punch his way through this film; there are no extensive fight scenes, he doesn't scoop slam anyone. Cameron is a multi-layered character. There is an especially good scene in which Cameron inadvertently calls up a photo of Katie's crime scene on his computer screen. Roddy's reaction to the picture is dead-on. This director obviously knew how to get a very credible performance out of Roddy.

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Summary: THE METHANE MENACE
Review: My friend and I like to browse the video rental stores for movies that we think would be excellent targets to poke fun at.

Sci Fighters.

What a stupid name for a movie! We just had to try this one out.

Unfortunately for us this movie wasn't all that bad. The beginning was very weird, though. Prisoners are placed on the moon in a Lunar prison. The movie shows two prisoners standing at a table with power tools--apparently prisoners do labor of some sort--when suddenly they start attacking each other with saws. Prisoner A--Adriann Dunn (why does he have a girl's name?) kills prisoner B and then tries to make it look like an accident. Then, for some stupid, unknown reason he takes a screwdriver and stabs himself in the arm. But oh, apparently prisoner B isn't dead yet and some weird tentacle thing springs out and attacks Dunn's arm.

Watch out for this scene where the detective is asking this nurse where someone is. The nurse says "BEHIND you." But then the detective turns to his RIGHT, because that's where the guy is.

And I can't believe that it takes the good guys forever to realize that all it takes is a Bic lighter to destroy the methane-breathing menace. There are so many ways that they could have made this movie funnier.

"Mommy, that man has a potty mouth." or they could have tried to thwart the methane menace with air freshener. So many possibilities.

But like I say, the movie's not that bad. Worth a rental, no more.

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Summary: Roddy on prozac.....
Review: This movie has some interesting technology in it (the little Pippin is probably the coolest) but the story line is pretty weak. You will be left with more questions than answers when the credits start rolling.

Instead of focusing on the virus, which is what this movie is really about, story development focuses on a sort of warped love triangle which the movie would have been much better with out.

Also, the performace by Roddy is very sedated and comes across as unnatural and stiff. He's not the best actor so at least when he's animated like in They Live or Jungleground he makes things interesting and entertaining.

The quality of the sound and video of this DVD is good.

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Summary: Sci-Fighters good vehicle for Drago
Review: Veteran character actor Billy Drago (Delta Force 2) gives one of his most frightening lead performances in "Sci-Fighters". He plays Adrian Dunn, a convict infected with an alien virus. His character has the usual psychotic behavior that Mr. Drago has perfected in past portrayals. But he also has a mutating virus that adds even more menace to his character. Roddy Piper (Jungleground) is good as the "regular guy" detective on Dunn's trail. Jane Heitmeyer (Face the Evil) plays the doctor trying to cure the virus and gets caught up in Dunn's sexual fantasies. The movie has a good storyline and acting, lots of action, special effects and wastes no time getting into the story. Though low-budget, it delivers more than most. This is a must have for Mr. Drago fans and those loving sci-fi.