Incredibly p*****d off that my local VUE is not showing Hail Caesar. We are getting the new Divergent film and they are keeping on Dad's Army and Grimsby which tells you all you need to know about the viewing habits in Barrow-in-Furness.
River of death
Ending up in my cannon films pile in error, its actually a Harry allan Towers production, this is an adaptation of an Alistair Maclean novel. Robert Vaughn is a brutal Nazi doctor in the Josef Mengele mould who escapes at the end of WWII screwing over a fellow Nazi, played by Donald Plesance. Some years later Michael Dudikoff is an adventurer who botches an expedition into the rainforests with a doctor and his daughter investigating a mystery illness. Abandoning them to the natives he's racked with guilt and decides to mount a rescue operation. He finds funding for the trip from Plesance who has since become a major businessman in south America. Accompanied by a number of interested parties, including two mossad agents, they make their way into the wilderness to locate the Nazi doctor.
Mixing up 80's adventure pictures with Heart of Darkness, River of death is a fun film. A little silly, with some major plot holes (including why no one has noticed a major south American business mogul with a penchant for German musical theatre is a spitting image of a prominent Nazi who ran a death camp). Dudikoff gets to actually act again and isn't bad. The whole film isn't as much fun as avenging force but is still worth checking out.