Stumbling across a movie you've never heard of can be a bit of a crapshoot. Sometimes the movie's good, sometimes bad. Today I found 2017's Instant Death, and it is 84 minutes of Grade-A schlock.
Another in a long line of 'old guy gets revenge' films, the plot of this movie is just one cliché after another; John Bradley (played by Lou Ferrigno) is a Special Forces veteran who is trying to reconnect with what family he has left. Then one day, after witnessing a gang-related murder, he finds himself in the crosshairs of a drug lord named Razor. When the gang goes looking for John and learn that he's not in town they attack his family to draw him back. Once he finds out that his daughter was raped and beaten and his granddaughter killed, John becomes a one-man wrecking crew hell-bent on vengeance.
As an actual action movie, it's pretty terrible. As an unintentional comedy it's fantastic. The fight scenes in this movie are bad to the point of being hilarious, and Ferrigno's 'tough-guy' threats are cheesy as a can be. As a result, I'm kind of torn on this one. Quality wise, the movie deserves a 1 out of 5. However, I got so many laughs out of it that I do actually recommend it as a "so bad it's good" movie.
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