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Leggenda del rubino malese, La (1985)
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Starts great but drops downhill, 3 August 2006
Author: HaemovoreRex from United Kingdom
I've got to say that the first 20 minutes of this film are admittedly excellent and show director Margheriti on top form. In a nut shell, Christopher Connelly plays the strangely named Captain Yankie who is running an amusing scam in the tropics for those with more money than sense. The good captain is leading mock expeditions into the jungle to recover 'lost artifacts' from 'savage natives' (in reality the friendly indigenous population who happen to be good friends with the captain) Accompanying our hero is also a worldly wise, jovial (and very drunken) Scottish guide (Margheriti regular Luciano Pigozzi) who is even 'killed' by the 'savages' early on in the shown scam for maximum effect!
News of these scams (or 'dreams' as our hero likes to call them) however gets out to an inspector (Lee Van Cleef) who, using them against our heroes, coerces i.e. blackmails them into undertaking a very real mission to retrieve a priceless artifact known as the Ruby Of Doom (a most unsettling name...) Needless to say, such a task proves to be anything but easy with our heroes having to fend off vicious Burmese pirates, avoiding various lethal traps and being betrayed from within their own ranks. Mix in some of Margheriti's always cool miniature work and a trademark explosive finale and you have on paper what should have been a great flick.
Unfortunately, after such a great introduction though, things go downhill with most of the action sequences being handled in a somewhat confused manner. Even the aforementioned finale whilst certainly pleasant to look at is handled with very little flair for Margheriti.
The good news is that the leads are tremendously fun to watch and the comedy present throughout is very welcome. One of the best bits is a scene in which the natives hear that Captain Yankie has arrived unexpectedly and thus perform a mad rush to hide all their westernised attire and accoutrement's to play the part of 'savages' as they have done previously for the captain so many times. They even put out some fake human skulls for good measure!!!
Overall: Not a bad film by any means but for fans of the genre I would recommend Margheriti's The Ark Of The Sun God as a much better watch.
Well, call me crazy, but..., 7 March 2006
Author: panamajaq from Santa Cruz, CA
I found an old VHS copy of this in a used book store. One look at the case and I knew I had to buy it. The cover was basically an illustration of some guy, shirt unbuttoned, standing in the middle of the jungle holding a tommy gun with a curvaceous woman clinging to his arm. I thought "Good Lord, this looks awful." You know you've got a terrible B-movie when you see a picture like that on the cover (i.e. you know the actual movie isn't going to look ANYTHING like the picture). Oh, and the best part: the title, "Jungle Raiders," was in the exact same font as the title of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I'm not exaggerating, it was EXACTLY the same. I thought "Wow, it must be even worse than I thought if they were trying to get people to mistake it for an Indiana Jones movie!" So, lover of horrid B-movies that I am, I bought it.
Upon inserting the video into a friend's VCR, I realized something. This wasn't merely a campy, low-budget, 80s action flick. No, it was a campy, low-budget, 80s action flick FROM ITALY! I was delighted. The Italians are crazy, of course, so I knew I was in for something wacky. I was right. I was watching it with my friend and neither of us could stop laughing until until it was over, and even after that we were still chuckling about it. This was seriously the most fun I'd had watching a movie in a long time.
I don't know where to start talking about it! Okay, first of all, it is NOT a rip-off of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," as some other IMDb reviewers have said. Though the people who packaged it obviously wanted to make it look like "Raiders of the Lost Ark," in reality it bears very little resemblance to the Jones series with regard to plot, characters, or anything else.
"Jungle Raiders" is in fact a roller-coaster ride of random action sequences, crappy special effects, and horrendous dubbing. The plot is rapid fire; one darn idiotic thing after another; everything but the kitchen sink. Only a crazy Italian could have written the script for this movie. It has everything! It has a boy who sends his pet cobra out to do errands for him! It has flame-throwers! It has pirates! It has a buck-toothed villain who wears a turban with a jewel in the middle of it! It has a Scottish sidekick who wears a plaid pancake hat! It has a fire-breathing mummy! It has Lee Van Cleef! The ridiculous booby traps that our heroes encounter in caves and tombs are enough to send you into fits of laughter, and if that doesn't happen the hilariously bad film score will probably do the trick. Speaking of music, during the ending credits (if you haven't died laughing by then) you will hear the worst song ever written. Once again, I'm not exaggerating. It really is the worst song ever.
If you're a seasoned veteran of bad movies and you get an opportunity to watch "Jungle Raiders," then you should watch it. Note: you must watch it with some friends. What more can I say? I don't understand how anyone could not love this movie.
Well ... 'It's Only A Movie', 9 August 2005
Author: skallisjr from Tampa, FL United States
I saw this years ago, and was astonished when I first saw it. It is a bad film, with a hunt for some gem called The Ruby of Gloom. Why anyone would look for something with a name that dubious escapes me, but okay.
The outstanding thing in this film, the thing that stayed with me, was the pet of a boy who was a member of Captain Yankee's party. It was a hooded cobra. This snake was very bright: he could put Lassie to shame, even conducting a scouting mission for the boy. He was so bright, he spotted a lady snake and slithered out of the film before the action concluded.
Not bad. Just silly.
Enjoyable B Movie!, 22 October 2001
Author: Mazzarini
I like this film, apart from being directed by the great Antonio Margheriti, it also features a great cast of B Movie stalwarts - Christopher Connelly, Lee Van Cleef, Luciano Pigozzi and Mike Monty - all with tongues firmly stuck in cheeks. The model effects may not be convincing, but I will take them over CGI any day. Margheriti directs with pure gutso and the cast look to be enjoying themselves. If I had to make a choice between Indiana Jones or Captain Yankee, Captain Yankee would win hands down.
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Jungle Raiders - Please Kill me Now, 27 July 2001
Author: andymras from San Pedro, CA
Golan-Globus were shameless ripoff artists of the 80s who could take a formula from a successful film then turn it into atrocious cinema. How anyone outside of the third world could have been suckered into seeing Jungles Raiders, instead of Raiders of the Lost Atk, from which most the whole concept comes, is beyond me.
Bela Lugosi was to Ed Wood, what Lee Van Cleef is to this film – the only recognizable actor, past his prime but clearly content to collect a paycheck for the grandkids. For the most part the rest of the actors were Italian hacks whose dubbing is almost (but not quite) laughably bad. My favorite feature of the looping is what would appear to be a rule: all actors that are onscreen at any given moment must be talking or at least making utterances. Never mind that their mouths may now be closed, or that there is no reason for them to be talking – they are gonna make some noise and there's nothing you can do about it.
It's like bad porn, where the girl is moaning with her mouth shut (or occupied). Furthermore, these Italians must go to the School of Gusto Laughs where all male actors are taught to end all dialog lines with a hearty pirate's laugh. Just watch – it could make a good drinking game.
In a nutshell, however, this movie is bad – with a capital A. Not bad enough to be good, as I had hoped, but just plain bad. No story (and the story elements there are are taken directly from Raiders of the Lost Ark), no acting – lots of action with no motivation or reward in the last 20 minutes of the film.
Although some companies take great pains to maintain the quality of their film stock archives, noone should shed a tear if the entire Golan-Globus stock were to go up in flames tomorrow. The shelfspace is worth more.
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