Review of Sloane

Sloane (1985)
5/10
I want him dead!
22 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Outrages and laughable action adventure movie filmed in the Philippines in the waining days of the Ferdinand Marcos Regime. Where there was far more action behind then before the cameras. We have tall blond and handsome Philip Sloane, Robert Resnick, who's given a blank check, just put in whoever amount you want, to rescue L.A businessman Albert Tracy, Arthue Sacks, daughter Janice, Ann Milhench. It was Janice, Sloane's former flame, who was kidnapped by this terrorist religious cult whom her husband Richard, George E. Mahlberg, had embezzled almost its entire treasury! Sloane gets to work right away as he recruits his good friend Pete Saimi, Raul Aragon, to find Janice who's husband Richard was beaten to death by one of the thugs Crowbar, Turko Cervantes, who kidnapped her!

Together with Pete Sloane get another ex-girlfriend of his Cynthia Thursbay-Richard's sister?-played by Debra Blee from the film "Hamburger the Movie" to also help him find Janice who at first doesn't want anything to do with him. Sloane getting no help from the local Manila police is on his own in trying to track down and find Janice that leads to a number shooting stabbing and explosions until he finally finds her hidden in the cave outside, about 40 miles, Manila. That's where he's confronted not only by her kidnapper religious cult leader Chan Se, Joonee Gamboa, and his men but a number of man eating or cannibal midgets who unexpectedly, by devouring some of Cha Se's men, come to his aid!

***SPOILERS*** Worth watching just for Robert Resnick's-as Philip Sloane- bizarre actions like biting off a deadly cobra's head, and then flinging it's body at his attackers, that gives you the impression that he's either nuts of suffering from drug withdrawal. There's also the fact of Sloane getting shot at least twice and then within minutes he totally recovered from his wounds without any medical attention! Just when you thought that the movie was finally over were entertained with Crowbar for what seems like no reason at all, but just following the script he was handed, latches on to a helicopter piloted by Sloane only to lose his grip and fall some 1,0000 feet to his death! There's also the big final in the movie with Sloane again piloting what looks like a one man or seat helicopter wipe out the entire Chab Se religious cult with a payload of bombs and explosives that even a B29 or B52 super-bomber couldn't have enough room to carry!
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