Stryker (1983 film)
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| Directed by | Cirio H. Santiago |
| Produced by | Cirio H. Santiago[1] |
| Screenplay by | Howard R. Cohen[2] |
| Story by | Leonard Hermes[1] |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Ed Gatchalian[2] |
| Cinematography | Ricardo Remias[2] |
| Edited by | Bas Santos[1] |
Production companies |
HCI International[1] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | Philippines[1] |
Stryker is a 1983 Philippine action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago.[3] The film is set in the future where after a nuclear holocaust, survivors battle each other over the remaining water in the world.
Plot
After nuclear war has defoliated the Earth, survivors lives in colonies in a quest for water. A young woman named Delha is on the run from the evil Kardis henchman. She is rescued by Stryker and his young companion Bandit. She later finds herself trapped again by Kardis and resists torture to reveal where the location of her colony.
Meanwhile, Stryker and Bandit ambush a Kardis water tanker and drive in his fortress and manages to escape with Delha. Delha reveals that she has been trying to contact Trun, Stryker's estranged brother to assist in the defence against Kardis. Trun has been captured and buried by Kardis' men, but is rescued by Stryker. Trun has his lieutenant Bazil to gather his army, but Bazil betrays them leading Kardis to attack the colony.
Stryker is then captured and tortured, but is rescued by a group of dwarves whom he had previously given water too. After a final climatic battle, Trun's battalion defeats Kardis' army with help of Stryker and the dwarves.
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin gave the film a negative review, describing the film as "Workaday, predictable, edited to the bone, Stryker is very much a New World yarn. It cruises on automatic pilot from the first frame to the last."[1] Variety described the film as a "Grade-D imitation of "The Road Warrior." "Stryker" offers little for today's action audience."[2][4] The review described the Cohen's script as Howard R. Cohen's script as "insane" and leading man Steve Sandor as "ugly", and a "combination imitation of Indiana Jones and Mad Max" and that director Santiago's shots "rarely match, making for sloppy editing and enervating tedium."[4] In Phil Hardy's book Science Fiction (1984), a review compared to other Mad Max derivatives, noting it was "even more ridiculous than its Italian competitor I Nuovi Barbari (1983)." and lamented that director Santiago "used to turn out at least halfway decent movies for Roger Corman's New World from his Filipino base including Fly Me, Savage! (both 1973), TNT Jackson (1975) and the like."[5]
See also
- List of action films of the 1980s
- List of Philippine films of the 1980s
- Mad Max series legacy and influence in popular culture
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pym, John (1984). "Stryker". Monthly Film Bulletin (London: British Film Institute) 51 (600): 88. ISSN 0027-0407.
- 1 2 3 4 Willis 1985, p. 433: "Review is of 84 minute version reviewed on September 2, 1983"
- ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Stryker (1983)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
- 1 2 Willis 1985, p. 434: "Review is of 84 minute version reviewed on September 2, 1983"
- ↑ Hardy 1984, p. 266.
References
External links
- Stryker at the Internet Movie Database