Here's an Indonesian rip-off of the RAMBO films, hilarious because it is so incompetently made. Nobody makes films like they do in Indonesia and this is just as crazy in some ways as the horror and fantasy films made in that country. The plot involves an individual named Rambu (yep, he even wears a red bandanna for the finale - how obvious can you get?) who is hired by a shady organisation to fight crime. The big surprise is that his boss is as crooked as the enemy they are fighting, so Rambu basically kills all of the bad guys in the movie at the end of the film in an anti-climatic and poorly-staged action sequence, full of cars exploding for no reason and people dying unconvincing deaths. The film is packed with action throughout, with loud sound effects dubbed in. Most of it is routine hand-to-hand stuff but with some amusing exceptions detailed below.
The dubbing is along the lines of "Let's kill that Intruder now!" and "I'm going to kill you!", cheesily overemphasised and the words quite ridiculous. At a model show, one of the girls is ordered to "show him your chest!" by her cruel captor. There are continuity errors galore and the acting is about as laboured as you might expect. The only non-Asian in the cast is the lean and muscular lead Peter O'Brian, who wears a single expression throughout the movie and overacts all the time with much hilarity all round. The film depicts an unpleasant sadistic attitude towards women, with girls being raped and horrifically mutilated and murdered (at least that's the impression I get, as the British print has been heavily cut). To make matters worse the revenge taken on the bad guys who perpetrated the crimes is nowhere near as bad as the violence they commit, instead they die in quick explosive deaths.
THE INTRUDER is worth watching for bad movie lovers for the crazy scenes scattered throughout. One is at the beginning when the Intruder gets in a fight with a couple of thugs and uses a BALL to repel them, repeatedly bouncing the rubber missile off their heads and knocking weapons from their hands! The same ball turns up later in the movie to knock off another couple of baddies. The highlight of the film for me comes when the Intruder goes to rescue a captured girl, arriving in a covered tricycle. Soon after his friends, all in identical matching tricycles, turn up and battle the bad guys who ride mopeds. What follows is one of the silliest battles you'll ever see which ends with a man falling onto the front of two bikes and being propelled through a brick wall! There is also plenty of violence with people being machine-gunned by shoddy effects work and a fair amount of sex, which has been recorded over by a prude on the video I saw, with clips of hairdressing and NEIGHBOURS! Which is the more offensive?! Although the unpleasant misogyny leaves a bad taste in the mouth, THE INTRUDER is so poorly made and silly that it's impossible to take seriously, instead watch it for a good laugh!
The dubbing is along the lines of "Let's kill that Intruder now!" and "I'm going to kill you!", cheesily overemphasised and the words quite ridiculous. At a model show, one of the girls is ordered to "show him your chest!" by her cruel captor. There are continuity errors galore and the acting is about as laboured as you might expect. The only non-Asian in the cast is the lean and muscular lead Peter O'Brian, who wears a single expression throughout the movie and overacts all the time with much hilarity all round. The film depicts an unpleasant sadistic attitude towards women, with girls being raped and horrifically mutilated and murdered (at least that's the impression I get, as the British print has been heavily cut). To make matters worse the revenge taken on the bad guys who perpetrated the crimes is nowhere near as bad as the violence they commit, instead they die in quick explosive deaths.
THE INTRUDER is worth watching for bad movie lovers for the crazy scenes scattered throughout. One is at the beginning when the Intruder gets in a fight with a couple of thugs and uses a BALL to repel them, repeatedly bouncing the rubber missile off their heads and knocking weapons from their hands! The same ball turns up later in the movie to knock off another couple of baddies. The highlight of the film for me comes when the Intruder goes to rescue a captured girl, arriving in a covered tricycle. Soon after his friends, all in identical matching tricycles, turn up and battle the bad guys who ride mopeds. What follows is one of the silliest battles you'll ever see which ends with a man falling onto the front of two bikes and being propelled through a brick wall! There is also plenty of violence with people being machine-gunned by shoddy effects work and a fair amount of sex, which has been recorded over by a prude on the video I saw, with clips of hairdressing and NEIGHBOURS! Which is the more offensive?! Although the unpleasant misogyny leaves a bad taste in the mouth, THE INTRUDER is so poorly made and silly that it's impossible to take seriously, instead watch it for a good laugh!