Rage (1995)

Director:

Joseph Merhi

Writers:

Joseph John Barmettler (writer)
Jacobsen Hart (writer)

Release Date:

3 November 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Plot:

A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army. |

Plot Keywords:

Superhuman | One Man Army | Fall From Helicopter | Serum | Impersonating A Police Officer

Cast

Gary Daniels	...	Alex Gainer
Kenneth Tigar	...	Harry
Fiona Hutchison	...	Mary
Jillian McWhirter	...	Bobby T
Peter Jason	...	Griggs
Mark Metcalf	...	Lt. Gov. Dalquist
Tim Colceri	...	Parrish
Dave Powledge	...	Kelly
Doren Fein	...	Kathy Kay
Judith-Marie Bergan	...	Gladys
Emilio Rivera	...	Javier
David Weininger	...	Turquette
Gary Imhoff	...	McKinna
Chuck Butto	...	Tenny
Ramon Sison	...	Koto

MPAA:

Rated R for non-stop action/violence, and for language.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | UK:18 | Germany:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

PM Entertainment Group

Trivia:

The lead character in the movie is identified as Alex Gayner, a name which he shares with the first assistant director, Alexander H. Gayner.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Ramp used to flip SUV sideways over exploding rig clearly visible.

PM Entertainment's and Gary Daniels finest hour

Well, if ever there was a definitive example of a 'mindless fun' action film then this must surely be it! The plot here is ludicrous, the acting even more so and the action scenes - well, let's just say that to call them OTT would be a dramatic understatement.......but by God - this is so damned ridiculously entertaining from start to glorious finish.

Daniels plays a primary school teacher(!) who's seemingly idyllic life is one day plunged into absolute turmoil when a desperate man brandishing a gun jumps into his car and demands Daniels to help him escape from a group of decidedly shady pursuing government agents. It turns out that said agents are conducting clandestine and immoral experiments with an experimental serum designed to create a super soldier. Well, it doesn't take a prophet to foresee that our hero ends up as the next unwilling participant in these trials. Unfortunately for his captors however, our man turns out to be a tad more unruly than the previous experimentees and promptly goes crazy and kills everyone in the secret facility(!) before hightailing it out in a bid to reclaim his freedom. Needless to say, the dastardly agents can't allow any evidence of their illicit experimentation to become public knowledge and subsequently set out to eradicate all traces of their antics i.e by killing off our man!

Well, there's the plot in a nutshell (what there is of it!) but really such a wafer thin notion is only present to serve as an excuse for the amazing non-stop action in this. Literally hardly a moment goes by without either a massive shoot out, Daniels displaying his awesome martial arts skills or else an insane car chase of some description.

Best scenes? There's simply so many to choose from but a number stick out including a hair raising freeway chase upon Daniels' escape from the lab, the lab massacre itself, an hilarious scene in which Daniels is attacked by a mad dominatrix and her 'servant'(!) a mall shoot out which shamelessly plugs other PM output via having part of the carnage take place in a video store(!) and best of all, a truly sidesplittingly stupid (but hilariously fun) sequence in which Daniels swings from the side of a building and lands (amazingly!) on a helicopter(!!!!!) Simply insane fun from start to wonderful end - you NEED to see this!!!