Overrated

disgusting, overrated, pointless

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Colonel Hogan rents his mercenaries out to anyone with the right price, and for training, he orders his troops to kidnap innocent people, take them to the forest and hunt them down, and kill them.But this time, they picked Mike Danton, a Vietnam veteran, with a perfect mullet.Taken to the forest, the mercenaries hunt Danton, but are meticulously picked off one by one, so Hogan, sends a task force with his best man, Lieutenant Thornton.But Jack Cooper is also part of the team. Cooper and Danton realise who each other are while trying to kill each other. Cooper has not seen Danton since he took a bullet for him. With his new-found friend, Danton continues to Norris the mercenaries, and get back to his wife........It's First Blood meets Hard Target, and just when you want to turn the film off in fear of your IQ lowering beyond that of a fire damaged Brazil Nut, it goes beyond stupidity and manages to entertain you for all the wrong reasons.And the fact that Danton spends almost 90% of the film greased up and in tighty denim shorts, just adds to the awe inspiring awfulness of it all.Fireworks are passed for grenades, when someone is shot, they fall down in the most ridiculous ways possible, and it all seems to be set in a big car park covered in sand.It's aged poorly, and unlike a bona-fide cult movie like Samurai Cop, it doesn't have that instantaneous cult charm feel to it.It takes a while to appreciate the audaciousness of it all, and it fear that many will turn it off after a few minutes believing to be just a cheap rip off of Commando.Which it is, but in a good-ish way.....

Are you a man? Do you have frosted hair? Do you sleep in very short, denim cutoffs? Yes? Then this is the film for you. Because Ted Prior does. Ted Prior posed nude in Playgirl and that worked for him because he didn't speak, didn't have any lines. Here? We are tortured by not only his bad acting but the bad acting of the rest of the cast. That's not the worst of it though. We're also subjected to bad sound, bad editing, horrible dialog and a tedious, relentless 88 minutes of men chasing other men and pretending to be blown up by low budget grenades and gun fire. But the acting isn't just bad, it's PAINFUL! Please don't waste your time on this. Your time is valuable. We're here for such a short time. You can't waste 88 minutes on something like this. Just watch Predator if you need something like this. You can watch it in short denim cutoffs.

This film is one of the greatest pieces of trash cinema out there. The latest trend of "its so bad its good" films have been popping up for awhile now and this masterpiece is most definitely in the top ten of that category. The opening scene has our main hero posing on top of a hill, epically I might add, and you know you are in for a real treat. Basically our muscle bound hero gets kidnapped by a group of mercenaries who need live hunting practice. So the rest of the movie is basically killing scene after killing scene. Some are epic, some are just good, but the final ten minutes makes this film legend. What the director was trying to do is to have a mixture of The Most Dangerous Game and Rambo, what turn out is a nonsensical epic bloodbath that is so bad there is no way you are not laughing. Bad acting, bad script, bad editing, bad directing, highly entertaining, this is the perfect combination of creating a "So Bad its Good" masterpiece. Just the fact of you reading this review makes you supercool in more ways then one. So have a couple of beers, invite some friends over and enjoy the awesomeness of Deadly Prey. For more reviews check out my Youtube channel Logan Toxic and my blog logantoxic.blogspot

This film was, when i was about fifteen years old, without a shadow of a doubt the best film ever made in the whole of time. And it still is.Mike Danton is an ex-commando hardman who is retired to a quiet suburban life. His day starts off quite normally, putting out the bins for his wife. But to be kidnapped by a gang of armed men, bundled into the back of a van, and released into the woods to be hunted down as a human target for a gang of wannabe mercenaries? Whilst putting out the bins? Nobody expects that.Thankfully, our Mike hasn't forgotten his years of training to be a B-list Rambo, and proves to be quite a Hard Target for his enemies. He's no meek quarry: he is DEADLY PREY!!! Amongst such hilarious shenanigans as achieving invisibility by hiding up a tree draped in a couple of leaves, and slicing of a guy's arm with a machete and beating him with said sliced appendage (with the wet end), Danton tracks down the evil Colonel responsible for his ordeal, a Colonel who by the caprice of fate is the very man who trained him with these superb abilities to survive.Another twist has Mike's father-in-law (played by sleaze veteran Cameron Mitchell), an ex-cop, try to track down Mike and the guys who snatched him.Don't think about the plot too much, just pull on some cut-off denims, smear your face with muck like a commando as we did when young, and howl at the sky just like Mike Danton in the poster. We all have an inner Danton. Let him loose. I know mine. I trained him.See also: Commando, Hard Target (but this is miles better than either)