Apatros Review Ep-0004: Memorial Day [1998]

AR-0004: Royal Oaks was a company headed by Andrew Stevens & Ashok Amritraj that issued a bunch of military-themed B-grade action films directly to video in the 1990s, providing a second wind to people like Michael Dudikoff & Michael Madsen & which was something of a minor fixture in video stores back in the mid-to-late 1990s. In this particular flick, one of their very worst films, a shadowy group in the CIA use a top-secret laser satellite to commit terrorism just so they can expand their paycheques, although their plan comes unstuck when they make the [wise for us] decision to use a decompressed soldier stuck in an asylum to perform an assassination mission on an important target, only for the Shakespeare-loving assassin to remember his past & his duty. Jeff Speakman handles himself well with his Kenpo moves, but the plot of this film will put off a great many people due to how flippantly it treats the hot-button issue of terrorism, something that wasn't a major issue back then [film came out three years before 9/11]...

My Grade: D- [Atrocious]

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