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4. The Chop Shop Massacre (The Joshua Tree)

Dolph Lundgren again, this time starring as a trucker framed for murder who goes on the run to clear his name. Now, The Joshua Tree (or Army of One as it's known in some places) is by all known standards of measurement a bad movie. Bad acting, dialogue and long stretches of boring exposition result in a film that will have you checking your watch frequently. But the ace up its sleeve is that it's directed by legendary stuntman Vic Armstrong, who knows how to stage an action scene. And when Dolph arrives at a chop shop to retrieve some money he's owed by the guy running it, the insanity gets dialled all the way up to 11. In this scene Dolph has to go up against what must be the most well staffed - and well armed - chop shop operation in history, and he does so with great gusto. Clearly influenced by John Woo, Armstrong stages a wide variety of carnage as our hero plows through wave after wave of bloodthirsty mechanics (is there any other kind?). During the course of the scene Dolph slides around the floor on a cart, blazing away with a gun in each hand in slow motion. One guy he sets on fire, who he then kicks into a box full of flammable material to cause an explosion. He even finds time to have a fistfight in the middle of all this, which is handily resolved with a piece of jagged metal. The Joshua Tree is by no means a classic, but this giddy festival of mindless violence goes some way to helping justify its existence.