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2013-05-21 13:03:44

THE COVER IS THE BEST THING

If there is one Shannon Tweed movie to watch, this isn't it. Mark Hardin (Reb Brown) aids a Central American government against the rebel forces. He questions their brutality and in an awkward plot point he is immediately suspected and tortured for being a rebel sympathizer and so is Shannon Tweed who just happens to know him. They join the rebel side.This is a horribly acted and produced film, not even good Filipino exploitation. It is the one to be missing from any Shannon Tweed collection.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, implied rape. Camera angle prevents nude scenes.

2013-05-20 21:22:24

The audio and video quality is terrible

The picture and audio quality are the worst I have ever seen on DVD except for another movie by this same company.Save your receipt; you'll want your money back.I have never seen a commerical movie this bad and that includes VHS tapes.

Nik-14 2013-05-16 14:00:57

Eaghhh

See this film if you are into lousy movies. The acting is terrible.Wheredid this guy Reb Brown come from. The action choreography is lousy. Insome instances you could hear people scream before they is actually shot.Saw XXX the day after I saw this film. Took a point away from Firing Lineand gave it to XXX.

AssProphet 2013-05-15 19:07:19

So bad it's good

Audio:Seriously I've never seen a movie with worse audio. There are sceneswhere people are walking through the grass, and you can hardly hearthem over their footsteps. They must be miking their feet. You know how in some movies they forget a line, so they have to dub itin on a shot of the back of someone's head. Here the editors were notthat clever. There is actually a scene where Shannon Tweed's charactersays her line without moving her lips at all!I'm pretty sure for their background sound they played effects loopslive while shooting, because in a lot of scenes the sound effects willeither be different or be absent whenever the camera changes angles.I could write a lot more on how bad the audio is in this movie.Other Nuggets:In this movie they probably consider the opening credits to be specialeffects because they seemed so challenging to produce. The main titleand the first few names in the opening credits are in white text over awhite sky, and they wobble as if they were carefully hand painted oneach frame.The reuse of extras in this movie is incredible. There are about 15rebels in the cast, and yet in any given battle thirty or more of themwill be killed. If only the film were high enough quality todistinguish which ones were dying over and over.It's also interesting to note that the rebels are usually killed byexplosions that are always between 30 and 200 feet away. There is onescene one scene when some of the rebels are running out of their hutsin the rebel base, and one huts shakes as the rebel exits the door. Itmakes you wonder if the hut will last long enough to encounter theinevitable explosion.There is a blue helicopter that looks as menacing as a pair of runningshorts, but somehow is equipped with an infinite supply of missiles.When they show the missiles being shot out of the helicopter's missilebays, the often shoot of in unpredictable directions very closelyresembling large bottle rockets. They still manage to hit their targetswith ease, which as noted above is always a very safe distance awayfrom the rebels they kill. Note the recycled footage of the pilotpressing the LIVE button to fire the missiles (because it's printedvertically, the first few times we saw it, we read it as the "EVIL"button).Notice how the grenade launcher they use, produces identical explosionsto those that are created by the helicopter missiles. It's also fun inmany scenes how the actor in the foreground is shooting in a completelydifferent direction than the group of enemy soldiers that he iskilling. And frequently, characters shoot a disproportionate number ofbullets to the soldiers who are killed (like when a short burst firekills a large group of enemies).Yes this movie is very very very bad. The plot was thought out almostas well as a 5 year old's soccer game, and the editing is the worstI've ever seen. But honestly, sometimes it's fun spend 90 minuteslaughing at a group of adults who sincerely took part in such aterrible movie.

2013-05-06 10:51:47

Like The A-Team, Only Without The Talent Or Production Values

"The Firing Line" is one of the worst films to be made in the recent past. Essentially it involves Reb Brown ("Space Mutiny") as an American military advisor on a mission to some fictitious South American country with a rebel problem. Made five years after the Iran-Contra affair, and at a time when the "Rambo" series was extremely popular and profitable, the film may have seemed reasonably topical (though still wretched) at the time: it is now merely another overacted action film. The film starts by showing Reb Brown picking up Shannon Tweed in a bar. It turns out she's there on business selling "sports equipment" to hotels. (Ponder.) The two of them hit it off, but before long Brown is in trouble, and Tweed gets kidnapped in an attempt to find out information about Brown. The next 80 or so minutes are filled with implausible escapes, lots of gunfire, helicopters, explosions, and Reb Brown yelling "Move!" in the same manner he perfected in the infinitely better (though more comical) "Space Mutiny." Shannon Tweed's assets are largely squandered here, although she does turn in the best performance, and has plenty of time for a relatively immodest swim in the middle of a combat zone. Saying she gives the best performance here should not be confused with an endorsement, however: the scene where she stares slack-jawed at a dead body for several minutes in horror is overwrought enough with pathos to make any reasonable viewer's eyes roll back in their head. For sheer discomfort, watch carefully for the scene in which smarmy Reb and disinterested Shannon run off on a romantic interlude under a waterfall during hostilities. The film has terrible production values, and makes the most of the limited footage they had of helicopters, things blowing up, and people falling down dead. Despite this, the film manages to be abjectly boring. Making it worse is the fact that the soundtrack sounds awful, there are large audio dropouts, and the sound effects frequently don't match the onscreen action. The music is equally annoying, consisting as it does of nearly constant trumpet and drum military fanfare refrains of low quality. After all the running, all the fighting, all the endlessly repeated helicopter footage, the obligatory stuntman on fire for some reason, and Reb Brown yelling "Move!" more times than I want to think about, the movie comes to an abrupt, unfulfilling train-wreck of an ending, which, while welcome, seemed like the filmmakers had simply run out of ideas and money."The Firing Line" is in every way a terrible movie. It has no redeeming qualities: it is too awful to be entertaining, and too boring to be funny. Just say no.

2013-05-05 21:03:43

Lots of HOT sex!!

Wow! I cannot believe how much HOT sex is in this movie. I also cant believe I'm just now stumbling across this masterpiece. A definite must buy if your a fan of SHANNON TWEED or just beautiful NAKED women. Oh yea, be sure to check for the HOT lesbian love-scene near the end!

William 2013-05-01 23:59:58

Another bottom of the line action film

Reb Brown plays a military adviser who changes side and helps out therebelwhen the rebel leader was killed without trial. Now he is on run with aninnocent lady (Shannon Tweed) and teams up with the rebels to fight neverending (boring) battles in this standard action film. Brown has a geekymustache in this film and Tweed looks bored. Not recommended.

gridoon 2013-05-01 08:52:56

Boring, cheesy, low-grade action film

In yet another case of misleading marketing, this film is included in a10-movie DVD set called "Women Who Kick Butt", but even in its originalcover it seems to promise Shannon Tweed in an action role. Actually,during most of the movie Tweed plays the typical whiny and prissyfemale character who has to be rescued by the male lead, and even whenshe's trained in jungle warfare she still has to be dragged around byhim! There is one female rebel who is a stronger character, but she'smostly kept in the margins of the movie. The male lead is Reb Brown,and he does have some (unintentionally, I think) funny moments (likewhen he gets electrocuted). The action scenes are badly directed andpoorly acted: some of the stuntmen needed a few lessons on "how to getshot and die convincingly". I suppose if you're in the right mood youcan find some things in "Firing Line" to laugh at (at one point, we canhear Tweed speaking but her lips are not moving!), but mostly I wasjust bored. (*)

2013-04-20 22:02:15

Like The A-Team, Only Without The Talent Or Production Values

"Firing Line" is one of the worst films to be made in the recent past. Essentially it involves Reb Brown ("Space Mutiny") as an American military advisor on a mission to some fictitious South American country with a rebel problem. Made five years after the Iran-Contra affair, and at a time when the "Rambo" series was extremely popular and profitable, the film may have seemed reasonably topical (though still wretched) at the time: it is now merely another overacted action film. The film starts by showing Reb Brown picking up Shannon Tweed in a bar. It turns out she's there on business selling "sports equipment" to hotels. (Ponder.) The two of them hit it off, but before long Brown is in trouble, and Tweed gets kidnapped in an attempt to find out information about Brown. The next 80 or so minutes are filled with implausible escapes, lots of gunfire, helicopters, explosions, and Reb Brown yelling "Move!" in the same manner he perfected in the infinitely better (though more comical) "Space Mutiny." Shannon Tweed's assets are largely squandered here, although she does turn in the best performance, and has plenty of time for a relatively immodest swim in the middle of a combat zone. Saying she gives the best performance here should not be confused with an endorsement, however: the scene where she stares slack-jawed at a dead body for several minutes in horror is overwrought enough with pathos to make any reasonable viewer's eyes roll back in their head. For sheer discomfort, watch carefully for the scene in which smarmy Reb and disinterested Shannon run off on a romantic interlude under a waterfall during hostilities. The film has terrible production values, and makes the most of the limited footage they had of helicopters, things blowing up, and people falling down dead. Despite this, the film manages to be abjectly boring. Making it worse is the fact that the soundtrack sounds awful, there are large audio dropouts, and the sound effects frequently don't match the onscreen action. The music is equally annoying, consisting as it does of nearly constant trumpet and drum military fanfare refrains of low quality. After all the running, all the fighting, all the endlessly repeated helicopter footage, the obligatory stuntman on fire for some reason, and Reb Brown yelling "Move!" more times than I want to think about, the movie comes to an abrupt, unfulfilling train-wreck of an ending, which, while welcome, seemed like the filmmakers had simply run out of ideas and money. "Firing Line" is in every way a terrible movie. It has no redeeming qualities: it is too awful to be entertaining, and too boring to be funny. Just say no.

2013-04-20 07:34:14

Not worth it at all. Boring.

This review is from: The Firing Line (DVD) This movie was boring and not worth spending a penny on it. The plot was stupid. I wanted to see more of Shannon Tweed, but it just wasn't there. Don't waste your money on this movie. I threw it away after watching it.