Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Christopher Forbes' ROCKET HUNTER (2022)

Truly unwatchable. World War Two movie. Seemed to be inspired by the 1930 movie Hell's Angels. That movie ended with two brothers flying a single captured German plane to blow up German munitions before an allied offensive in World War One. In Rocket Hunter, there's a flashback to the two brothers going to a WWI movie in 1930. They fly off in a B-17, just the two of them, to bomb a Nazi rocket factory. 

People on IMDb keep attacking it for using remote control model airplanes and a model railroad, but I liked those things. They had close-ups of guys playing the pilots obviously in front of a green screen, obviously not in anything resembling an airplane. 

It was the lack of plot and some random disconnected subplots that killed it.

It had a Jewish engineer forced to work for the Nazis so they won't murder his family, but then they made a Polish slave laborer the bad guy. 

I've been watching some of these terrible movies which I assume were shot in three or four days. There were some that were okay, that you could at least sit though, that had nothing in them that would have cost any money. Their biggest expense was renting an Airbnb for the weekend.

But then you have Christopher Forbes movies. I watched some his westerns that had horses, reasonably good costumes, prop guns and western movie sets. They put at least a little money into them as they did into this movie, but everything else about them was so terrible. Forbes has 40 directing credits on IMDb, so he's doing fine. He might think about having someone else write his scripts.

Someone compared it to the work of Ed Wood, but Plan 9 From Outer Space had a lot of plot. It had at least five subplots that all tied together in the end. Rocket Hunter was random, boring, meaningless scenes.

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