This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

An absolutely demented B-film, a US production filmed in the Philippines, which I found to be most enjoyable. It's poorly-made, don't get me wrong, and in a typical critic's mind it would rate as a bomb, with poor effects, no plot to speak of, and a lack of good acting and/or characterisation. But there's a ferocious pace and kinetic energy running through RAW FORCE that makes it hard to dislike the film. We've got the party of travellers in a foreign country, the gang of bad guys who keep naked women locked up, the crazy martial arts, and the same slow-motion zombies who come out of their graves as the ones in THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES, which seems to have been a big influence on this one. The similarities between these two films are impossible to ignore and I'm sure that they'd make a great double bill together.There's not really much more that I can say about this film other than WATCH IT! If you think it sounds like your kind of tacky, cheesy thing, then all I can say is YES! The acting is so wooden that the characters become interchangeable, the music inappropriate and far too jolly, and the gratuitous nudity comes FAR too often as a way of bolstering the plot (and to keep people watching - that's always a bad sign). The film's biggest star is Cameron Mitchell at a stage well past his prime, although to be fair Mitchell is very likable as the salty old sea dog, a captain who flirts with all the ladies. Eagle-eyed viewers may also spot I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE's Camille Keaton in a cameo as "girl in toilet", amid all the other muscular-but-dumb American actors and the pretty girls who invariably show up for no other reason than to take their clothes off.Every ten minutes the cheesy dialogue grinds to a halt in order to have another poorly-staged bout of martial arts action. I love the fighting in this film, it's absolutely hilarious and very violent. The best gory scene comes when someone decapitates a zombie with a sword and a single bit of blood squirts in the air. Actually the action is pretty good, very frenetically paced, with people flying about and rolling on the ground and hitting each other with supposedly dangerous props. There's even a guy who does a jump-kick through the passenger window of a moving van! There's just so much to like in this film, I don't know where to begin.What about the man who wants to be Bruce Lee SO much that it actually hurts? No idea who the actor was but you've gotta love his high-kicking skills. Or the hilarious sweaty 'tough guy' with permed hair in the film who cheesily winks at the camera at the end. Or the Chinese monks, who have dubbed laughter playing over them whenever they appear on screen. Or the offensive German (?) stereotype who dies in a welter of blood after getting munched by deadly piranha. Or the camp zombies themselves, who are painted blue and pose hardly any threat to the heroes because they're useless, and for some reason always have to move in slow motion to make them look more threatening than they really are. Kung fu, bad actors, copious nudity, zombies, gore, evil monks, cannibalism, women in cages, exotic locales, and Cameron Mitchell. What more could you possibly ask for in a B-movie? See this forgotten classic now!

"Raw Force" is like an ultra-sleazy and perverted version of Love Boat, with additional Kung Fu fights, demented cannibalistic monks, white slaves trade, energetic zombies and a whole lot of lousy acting performances. No wonder this movie was included in the recently released "Grindhouse Experience 20 movie box-set". It's got everything exploitation fanatics are looking for, blend in a totally incoherent and seemingly improvised script! The production values are extremely poor and the technical aspects are pathetic, but the amounts of gratuitous violence & sex can hardly be described. The film opens at a tropically sunny location called Warriors Island, where a troop of sneering monks raise the dead for no apparent reason other than to turn them into Kung Fu fighters. The monks also buy sexy slaves from a sleazy Hitler look-alike businessman, supposedly because the women's flesh supplies them with the required powers to increase their zombie army. Tourists on a passing cruise ship, among them three martial arts fighters, a female LA cop and a whole bunch of ravishing but dim-witted ladies, are attacked by the Hitler guy's goons because they were planning an excursion to Warriors Island. Their lifeboat washes ashore the island anyway, and the monks challenge the survivors to a fighting test with their zombies. Okay, how does that sound for a crazy midnight horror movie mess? It's not over yet, because "Raw Force" also has piranhas, wild boat orgies, Cameron Mitchell in yet another embarrassing lead role and 70's exploitation duchess Camille Keaton ("I spit on your Grave") in an utterly insignificant cameo appearance. There's loads of badly realized gore, including axe massacres and decapitations, hammy jokes and bad taste romance. The trash-value of this movie will literally leave you speechless. The evil monks' background remains, naturally, unexplained and they don't even become punished for their questionable hobbies. Maybe that's why the movie stops with "To Be Continued", instead of with "The End". The sequel never came, unless it's so obscure IMDb doesn't even list it.

Zombies, cannibalistic monks, kung fu, gore and tons of hilariously exploitative and entirely gratuitous nudity?! - Hell yes! - this has all the intrinsic ingredients to make it surely every blokes dream movie! And you know what? This heady mix of sleaze and action very almost lives up to the accolade to! Marvel at such scenes as one of our hero's performing a daring flying kick through a moving trucks window (and breaking his foot in the process!), a seeming army of zombie samurai and a couple of still very agile zombie ninja(!!!), some decidedly creepy monks who spend most of their time laughing like imbeciles(!!!), an hilarious bar fight, an evil white suit wearing Nazi (complete with Hitler style comb over and moustache!) and enough leering, lingering close up shots of female breasts to fill an average porno! Yes indeed, this is great fun from beginning to end although it does have to be said that the main action featuring our heroes vs zombies sadly doesn't kick in until the final third of the flick which is a bit of a shame.Nonetheless, if it's purely raw action and sleaze you're after then Raw Force certainly delivers!

This movie has everything a good exploitation movie should have: Zombies, cannibals, Nazis, naked chicks, blood, action, comedy, piranhas ...unfortunately this movie doesn't quite work as well as it should.This is the story of a cruise ship that promises some people a trip to exotic locales one of which is Warrior Island where disgraced martial artists go to die. Also on the Island are a band of cannibalistic monks. Through a chain of events too complicated to explain the Nazi pilot who is trading kidnapped women to the monks for jade sinks the cruise ship so it can't go to the island and ruin his deal. The survivors end up on the island anyway and the monks let loose the zombified remains of all of the dead martial artists on the survivors.At this point you're either intrigued or repelled by the nonsense you just read. If you're repelled move on to the next movie, if you're intrigued keep reading.Lets be honest this isn't a good movie by any conventional standards. Its got bad acting, bad special effects and a dumb plot. But then again its got the spirit to go for it anyway and it almost manages to be one of the all time classics.Unfortunately the film falls down in two key areas. First it doesn't know whether its serious or tongue in cheek. There are times when the cast seems to be playing it straight and times when they seem not. The unevenness of tone makes it hard to know how to take the movie so it ends up rubbing you the wrong way. The other problem is that the action sequences are filmed basically in a point and shoot style. There is no excitement generated from what we are seeing on screen because the camera man seems bored by it all. Its awful because this is often a really fun movie at times.If you are an exploitation movie fan, or a fan of movies that are just out on another planet I'd give this movie a shot, because even with all of the bad in it there is just an incredible collection of wild and way out things going on that you're very likely to find something to love.On the exploitation scale of 1 to 10- 6.5 rounded up to 7.