****SPOILERS**** Totally forgettable especially by those who are in it 1970's anti establishment movie that has to do with a returning Vietnam veteran Joe Ryan, Tom Stern,who becomes a flower child as well as homeless street person and ends up becoming a Rambo, before anyone ever heard of him,in taking down a drug kingpin Henry Neilson, Robert Vaughn, and his gang single handily. It's Ryan who's being blackmailed by corrupt DEA hot shot Frank Redford, Telly Savalas,to impersonate Neilson in order to get him out in the open. Despite the film's super star power-it was a recession and the actors desperately needed work-it ended up bombing out in the theaters even before word of mouth, in how awful it was, did it in.
Ryan who survived getting blown to bits in Vietnam when he jumped on a live grenade with his body felt that it was his fate to save humanity by first trying to save the drug addicted youth in L.A despite himself being hooked on pot. It's when he was arrested for vagrancy as well as stealing and damaging a traffic cop's motorcycle,here he shows no respect for the law, he's confronted by DEA agent Redford to go undercover as a clay pigeon to get the goods on crime boss Neilson, whom no one knows what he looks like, by making believe that he's him? Reluctant at first Rayn goes along with the scheme only to end up losing all his hippie friends including 60 year old junk man Freedom Lovelace, obviously a made up name, played by a ridiculously made up looking-like a hippie-senior citizen Burgess Meredith in the process.
***SPOILERS*** In the end Ryan after being shot and left for dead, like he was back in Vietnam, wipes out the powerful and at the same time unknown, in no one ever seeing him in person or in a photo, Neilson's mob that consists of only two persons Simon & Jason played by Ivan Dixon & Mario Alcaide- who died before this turkey of a movie was ever released- before finishing off Neilson in the great water fountain in the Hollowood Bowl. The ending is a lot like the one in "Jacob's Ladder" some 20 years later that seemed to be telling us that this was all some kind of a dream or out of the body experience on Rayn's part! Who in fact never survived the Vietnam war that was still going on when the film was made.
Ryan who survived getting blown to bits in Vietnam when he jumped on a live grenade with his body felt that it was his fate to save humanity by first trying to save the drug addicted youth in L.A despite himself being hooked on pot. It's when he was arrested for vagrancy as well as stealing and damaging a traffic cop's motorcycle,here he shows no respect for the law, he's confronted by DEA agent Redford to go undercover as a clay pigeon to get the goods on crime boss Neilson, whom no one knows what he looks like, by making believe that he's him? Reluctant at first Rayn goes along with the scheme only to end up losing all his hippie friends including 60 year old junk man Freedom Lovelace, obviously a made up name, played by a ridiculously made up looking-like a hippie-senior citizen Burgess Meredith in the process.
***SPOILERS*** In the end Ryan after being shot and left for dead, like he was back in Vietnam, wipes out the powerful and at the same time unknown, in no one ever seeing him in person or in a photo, Neilson's mob that consists of only two persons Simon & Jason played by Ivan Dixon & Mario Alcaide- who died before this turkey of a movie was ever released- before finishing off Neilson in the great water fountain in the Hollowood Bowl. The ending is a lot like the one in "Jacob's Ladder" some 20 years later that seemed to be telling us that this was all some kind of a dream or out of the body experience on Rayn's part! Who in fact never survived the Vietnam war that was still going on when the film was made.