When Eagles Strike

Here's a so-bad-it's-good flick that never seems to be brought up. When Eagles Strike is a low-budget actioner about a team of American and Filipino commandos who have to rescue a U.S. Senator from Islamist rebels in the Philippines ("ground zero of the War on Terror" as the film states). It's not as good/bad as, say, Death Wish 3 or 4: The Crackdown, Revenge of the Ninja, Marked for Death, etc., but it's still worth owning for fans of kitschy action movies.

Anyway, this is the Plan 9 from Outer Space of war movies. The Filipino Islamist jihadists look like a bunch of Arab sheiks, Chinese triad mobsters, Mexican drug-runners, etc. and the sound effects are laugh-inducing (the missile/rocket launchers sound like a laser gun from a '50s b-movie,the assault rifles make this "botbotbotbot" noise, a machete coming out of its sheath sounds like, well, I don't know what it sounds like). An embarrassed Stacy Keach shows up, looking like he's mentally listing all the things he'd rather be doing than being in this flick and Christian Boeving appears as the arch-douche-bag leader of the commando team. The action scenes are cheesy, but well-handled, though.

If you like this kind of stuff, check it out.