silly movie but she (paula vargas a.k.a. alex meneses) looks fine as hell. for Alex fans only, this will become a collectors item as it is a rare and average flick. The fight scenes are good but kely mcclung is much better at martial arts than acting. if you like Alex Meneses for any reason or for any of her previous work on TV or film this is good from the standpoint that she actually is the secondary actor and not a bit player as she has been in many other films, blink and you will miss her in Selena. blink and you will miss her in Autofocus, why she is not a much bigger female lead is a mystery to me, but hollyweird has its own little clique that makes no damn sense to the average movie patron.
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I would rather chew razor blades than watch this film.
roh322011 May 2005
This film is so bad, it's not even funny. In fact, it's unwatchable, not to mention completely worthless. I've seen porno film's, with better production value's than this embarrassing movie. The film's lead actor is a pudgy man with a laughable 80's hairstyle, and each scene is set up, just so he can beat up some 'bad guys'. The fight scenes are preposterous and the dialogue is insupportable. The acting in this movie is so bad it's offensive and the film's plot could have been written by a 5th grader. In fact some scenes and dialogue make absolutely no sense. Bad guys sent to kill a woman by their boss, but instead they trash her apartment and then run away when she comes home!!!. Then, when they return to their boss and ask for a second chance, he shoots one of them. I admit that I stopped watching this film after 20 minutes, because it's too atrocious to tolerate. I've seen many film's in my life, but 'Stickfighter' is at the top of my list for unendurable grade Z garbage, and that's putting it nicely.
An underground classic!
tarbosh2200012 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
John Lambert (McClung) is a Himbo cop with an attitude. After his beloved partner is killed during a drug raid, Lambert turns in his badge and gun and walks away from the force. He turns to his now-deceased partner's sister, Luella (Meneses) and old buddy Mule (Mitchum), to help him fight the baddies in his own way. It turns out that a drug lord named Dirk Riley (Johnson) has put a contract out on Lambert and Luella, so they're constantly on the run together even as Lambert uses his awesome Martial Arts moves on many, many goons. During all this, the LAPD is trailing Lambert's comings and goings. Naturally, it all ends in the time-honored Final Warehouse Fight. Also everybody calls Lambert "Stickman" because he's good at fighting with sticks, apparently.
Kely McClung - not to be confused with Edie McClurg - is our new personal hero. This is because Stickfighter is a certified classic of that silly/stupid/dumb/awesome/funny/classic-90's type of movie that is hilarious, totally entertaining, and cliché-ridden in the best possible way. It has that great semi-pro feel complete with awkward staging, dialogue, and editing. Most of the actors appear to be non-actors, including our hero. He tries hard to be the classic wisecracking 90's cop we all love and enjoy but he doesn't have the timing to pull it off. Hilarity ensues.
In the grand tradition of L.A. Wars (1994), Geteven (1993), Parole Violators (1994), The Crime Killer (1985), and even Night of the Kickfighters (1988), Stickfighter can proudly claim its rightful place in the pantheon of wonderfully weird one-offs that are brain-damaged brothers of their more well-known action contemporaries. In other words, the Alamo Drafthouse needs to find a print of this post-haste. The audiences will eat it up.
There is, more or less, non-stop action, and the pretexts for said action scenes are almost as great as the action scenes themselves. Guitar wails on the soundtrack accompany most of what we see. Many of McClung's ingenious fighting moves have to be seen to be believed. Somewhere in the midst of all this absurdity appears Jim Mitchum, who boasts a series of fascinating shirts. He plays a Vietnam vet/strip club bartender who is buddies with Lambert. He was probably happy to be there.
Interestingly, the first company logo we see before the movie begins is not PM or AIP, or something else, but none other than Pan Am Airlines. Of all the potential projects that Pan Am could have put its corporate muscle behind, why did they choose Stickfighter? And couldn't they have given it a bigger budget? But the ultimate question remains: Did Stickfighter ever play as the in-flight movie on any Pan Am flights? Of course, Pan Am doesn't exist anymore. Sure, you could blame Stickfighter, but I'd rather have Stickfighter.
Featuring quick cameos from Nils Allen Stewart and Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad, we believe Stickfighter is nothing less than an underground classic. If you want to laugh and have a great time while suspended in a state of stupendousness, for the love of all that is good we're begging you to watch STICKFIGHTER!
Kely McClung - not to be confused with Edie McClurg - is our new personal hero. This is because Stickfighter is a certified classic of that silly/stupid/dumb/awesome/funny/classic-90's type of movie that is hilarious, totally entertaining, and cliché-ridden in the best possible way. It has that great semi-pro feel complete with awkward staging, dialogue, and editing. Most of the actors appear to be non-actors, including our hero. He tries hard to be the classic wisecracking 90's cop we all love and enjoy but he doesn't have the timing to pull it off. Hilarity ensues.
In the grand tradition of L.A. Wars (1994), Geteven (1993), Parole Violators (1994), The Crime Killer (1985), and even Night of the Kickfighters (1988), Stickfighter can proudly claim its rightful place in the pantheon of wonderfully weird one-offs that are brain-damaged brothers of their more well-known action contemporaries. In other words, the Alamo Drafthouse needs to find a print of this post-haste. The audiences will eat it up.
There is, more or less, non-stop action, and the pretexts for said action scenes are almost as great as the action scenes themselves. Guitar wails on the soundtrack accompany most of what we see. Many of McClung's ingenious fighting moves have to be seen to be believed. Somewhere in the midst of all this absurdity appears Jim Mitchum, who boasts a series of fascinating shirts. He plays a Vietnam vet/strip club bartender who is buddies with Lambert. He was probably happy to be there.
Interestingly, the first company logo we see before the movie begins is not PM or AIP, or something else, but none other than Pan Am Airlines. Of all the potential projects that Pan Am could have put its corporate muscle behind, why did they choose Stickfighter? And couldn't they have given it a bigger budget? But the ultimate question remains: Did Stickfighter ever play as the in-flight movie on any Pan Am flights? Of course, Pan Am doesn't exist anymore. Sure, you could blame Stickfighter, but I'd rather have Stickfighter.
Featuring quick cameos from Nils Allen Stewart and Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad, we believe Stickfighter is nothing less than an underground classic. If you want to laugh and have a great time while suspended in a state of stupendousness, for the love of all that is good we're begging you to watch STICKFIGHTER!
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