d6a2afd33b Danger faces unsuspecting tourists in Las VegasColonel Nelson, who goes mad when he is accidentally electrocuted by the very super secret U.S. military tank he is testing, Iron Thunder. He now believes he is in the middle of an actual war and the city of glittering lights is his target. In a desperate attempt to stop him from using the state of the art offensive and defensive technology on board, the head of the Iron Thunder project sends out a Special Forces team, headed by woman who has to deal with a crew that has its own ulterior agendas. Following Nelson&#39;s trail of destruction across the desert, they face off in a spectacular battle and force Nelson out of his tank. The battle continues on foot into the ruined Ghost towns of times gone by. Nelson is in his element, matching wits and weapons with the less experienced soldiers. Iron Thunder is about military technology gone wild and the price humans must pay to survive in the 21st century. We get no pleasure out of saying this…for those new to this site, we&#39;re not those snarky internet guttersnipes that just nitpick movies (mainly because they&#39;re just nerds who don&#39;t know anything; we&#39;re just regular people)…but Iron Thunder is the worst movie we&#39;ve reviewed to date. All copies of this cinematic abortion should be eradicated from the earth.<br/><br/>The really sad part is, it never has to be this way. Like other potential renters, we presume, we thought &quot;Oh, Iron Thunder. That&#39;s a cool title, even though there&#39;s already a movie by that name starring Anthony &quot;Amp&quot; Elmore, and it stars Richard Hatch. It can&#39;t be all bad&quot;. Well, it IS all bad, because it has nothing viewers look for when they watch movies: likable characters, an interesting story, and an enjoyability factor that rises above zero.<br/><br/>Apparently Richard Hatch plays a guy with a plug in his head (not to be confused with &quot;Plughead&quot; from the Circuitry Man series) who goes rogue with a new experimental tank and a team of soldiers has to go find him and avoid being killed by him. The rock-bottom budget gives all the proceedings a junky look, from the horrible CD-ROM-style graphics to the toy tanks they usedlaughable miniatures. Other effects are just annoying and headache-inducing. This utter slog is sub-crud and there&#39;s a lot of talkiness you just don&#39;t care about and are not even close to being invested in. And the kicker is, this crime against movies goes on for a punishing, brutal, inexplicable, inexcusable 110 minutes! Why? What were they thinking? Try to imagine a STUPIDER Digital Man (1995) crossed with a MUCH stupider Bulletproof (1988), add a few more layers of worthlessness, draw it out for almost two full hours and then you might have some clueto how unbelievably bad this movie is. It truly gives low-budget and Direct-To-Video filmmaking a bad name and insults them besides. This movie is a traitor to the cause of awesome DTV action-packed fun.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t they teach warnings against this sort of thing in film school? Apparently this director wasn&#39;t paying attention, not that he&#39;s at all attuned to the wants and needs of others. It&#39;s funny how, somehow, people live up to their name, and the perpetrator of this movie is one Jay Woelfel and indeed everything about this THING is indeed woeful. How DARE he unleash this atrocity on the public? How come there&#39;s no repercussions for this? Amazingly, Iron Thunder was at our local library. Even at a rental cost of zero, it was not worth it. It actually takes a toll on you. Avoid this movie like the plague.<br/><br/>For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com A low-budget film, but packing lots of bang per buck. Hatch proves he can be more than the teenie-bop hero of Galatica era. The woman has a strong role; there&#39;s some lively dialog, some humor; and good hand-to-hand action – not just a tank blowing everything up, not just &quot;collateral damage.&quot; Somewhat like the Roy Scheider film with the helicopterto human-machine interface (as to the opening concept), but developed more along the lines of a Cronenberg/Philip K. Dick what-sort-of-mutants-are-we-making-of-ourselves? type message.
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