FORMAT: DVD
Don “The Dragon” Wilson kicks ass in Ireland in what could’ve easily been called The Bloodfist of Inisherin. Okay, not really. All jokes aside, for my money, this is one of his best.
Anyway, Don goes all the way to the Emerald Isle to meet an internet date (Eileen McClosky). She sends him out for beer, and he walks out with a six-pack, and wouldn’t you know it? Some creep tries to kickbox him in the parking lot for it. Since this is The Dragon we’re talking about here, he wins handily. However, this guy’s boss REALLY wants the six-pack and guns down Don’s pen pals’ coworkers to get a line on Don’s location. Turns out, there’s some nuclear detonators hidden inside the beer (!) and everyone and their grandma wants to get their hands on them.
I swear, only Irishmen or high school seniors would go through this much trouble for a sixer.
Apparently, this is a remake of Bloodfist 4, but with a six-pack of beer as the McGuffin instead of a box of chocolates. It’s from the same writer/director, Paul Ziller, who got a lot of mileage out of the change of scenery. (Not to mention all the internet dating stuff.)
I have to say I liked this one a lot better than Bloodfist 4, if only for the scenic setting, the goofy tone, and loosey-goosey vibe. Sure, the plot chases its tail a bit, and there’s maybe one too many double-crosses during the third act, but the film is chockfull of scenes of Wilson kicking lots of people in the face, which is all that really matters in something like this. It also helps that Ziller is more than adept at staging all the Kung Fu fights and shootouts.
This was the final collaboration between Wilson and producer Roger Corman, and I say they went out with a bang.
I thought Bloodfist 4 was pretty fun in it's own right.
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