![]() ![]() Other cast members are familiar if you're weird enough to have watched many Filipino exploitation movies. The film's sole well-known person is Robert Patrick, aka the Liquid Metal Man from TERMINATOR 2 man, what a break that must have been after appearing in obscure Filipino action films like this! Sadly Patrick doesn't get a chance to make an impression in the film, as other than a couple of angry outbursts, his screen time is limited to running around shooting and being tied up. Brett Clark stars as the one-dimensional hero, and while he knows how to fire a gun, he doesn't appear to have grasped the essentials of acting – sometimes his dialogue is so mumbled that I'm surprised Santiago didn't ask for another take. There's absolutely nobody in the film to care about, as the heroes are all selfish meat heads and the sole female an annoyingly brassy photographer who thinks nothing of putting others in danger. ![]() Never has it been more obvious that Santiago was just shooting this to make a quick buck – he doesn't appear to be interested at all in the plot, characters or dialogue, so all three are by-the-numbers. About halfway through, a plot struggles to appear – involving a jungle camp of renegades and murders – and following this the movie limps along to a lacklustre conclusion. The film begins in the middle of a gun battle, introduces our trio of heroes at a later stage – when it can be bothered – and then has lots of running around as they fight off the Vietcong. Watching this, you'll have no desire to track any of the director's other films down, as it stands as one of his dullest and most routine flicks – despite the plethora of over-the-top explosions and gun battles that populate the film's running time. EYE OF THE EAGLE is just one of the innumerable no-budget war flicks shot in the Philippines by director Cirio H. ![]()
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