10 VHS Tapes That Totally Lied To You
7. Heatseeker (1995)
“MEET THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR IN CYBER-TECHNOLOGY.”
Coming at a
time when martial arts action movies had lost their momentum, people weren’t as excited to see the likes of Cynthia Rothrock or Don ‘the Dragon’
Wilson as they used to be, with ‘Street Fighter’ and
‘Mortal Kombat’ being a kind of last hurrah for the genre; at least
for a while. So, Albert Pyun (director of ‘Cyborg’, ‘Kickboxer
2’ and the 1990 ‘Captain America’) had an idea. He would take the tournament
format that had worked for ‘Enter the Dragon’ and ‘Bloodsport’ and add cyborgs.
'Heatseeker' seems to have a lot going for it, starring Keith Cooke and featuring Gary Daniels, two recognisable names in the martials arts movie world, and also Thom "Tommy Jarvis" Matthews. There is some cool cyborg imagery and it looks like a lot of fun, until you watch it. The cyborgs Cooke fights are just people with robot-looking material stuck to their skin. The whole thing feels like it was just thrown together, hardly surprising as, according to IMDb, it was filmed in just 11 days.
In Hungary, ‘Heatseeker’ is called ‘Kickbox Robotok’.