Aka Arctic Heat in Australia,which I will refer to in this review, this is a refreshing and indeed, engaging thriller made by a guy, who was to become a bigger name in action movies, later on, and I really admire him for making this impresssive film, which like Hostel, doesn't prepare for the nastiness which follows. We have a likeable and cliched trio, of young horny, all American sorts. One, a wild rebellious sort, and you'll see later on, where hos metal defiance gets him, another, good hearted, and the other, more, a bookish, intellectual, nerdish sort. Looking for adventure, exciting and the thrill of risking their freedom, doing a very stupid thing, you so much don't want to em' to, I love the real grim aspect of this film, and really respecting it's ending as a very caution and take note ending.. We also have a sort of Midnitght Express scene going on. You might of expect worse violence, a shock scene involving a goat being slaughted in it's starting, sets of the violent air, this well made will have. It's scenario, is interesting as our three, inadvertently get caught up in, mistaken for three American spies, so you know what's to ensaue, Mike Norris, Chuck's son, as the high strung party, the glue that keeps the trio together, puts in a likeable perfrormance, and I really didn't like his character. There's some quite affecting and emotional moments, and the film has some quite realistic, suspenseful moments and themes, while there are many other ones, which aren't. I love Artcic Heat cause of it's freshness of story, and is one of those 80's one, which stands alone, and more sadly, sits on the video shelf, more than it should. Exciting action thriller. Banned in 3 countries. Now that's gotta hurt.
Review of Born American
