In the first Cine Excel Megapost, I looked at the in production, yet to be distributed, and recently released segments of Cine Excel’s film library. Part 2 will deal with the older Cine Excel film library, and the eventual part 3 will deal with the remnants of their oldest films (the ones we don’t get to here) After that, I have one or two more truely horrible production companies to highlight, and a few leads on others to go after. Until that day, we are stuck with Cine Excel!
American StreetFighter – I managed to get the DVD of this for $1, complete with cardboard case. Showing up on late night Cinemax or HBO from time to time. Hey, the star is Gary Daniels, who lives and breathes Cine Excel. Because he’s terrible, but maybe he is movie up in the world. He was in a DTV Steven Seagal film recently! Gerald Okamura also stars, much to our dismay.
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Jake battles Ogawa’s meanest street fighters with storming fists, thundering kicks and lightning swords of death!
The American Streetfighter… his street you don’t double-cross.
Wow, storming fists, thundering kicks, and lightning swords of death! Someone likes Rayden from Mortal Kombat!
Take a look at this picture, it encapsulates American StreetFighter. We got Gary Daniels, Gerald Okamura, and some guy with a cheesy eyepatch, gun, and cigar. My God!
Full Impact aka American StreetFighter 2: The Full Impact- I also managed to get the DVD of this for $1 with cardboard case. Both American StreetFighers for $2? Only in America! Gary Daniels???? I would have never expected him in a Cine Excel film… Especially a sequel to a crappy original. Gerald Okamura is also back, as Bald Fighter. However, the only convincing performance was by Carribou the Cat.
J.T. (Gary Daniels), former cop, is now a professional bounty hunter. Driven by his obsession with death, he enjoys not only the prize but the danger of the hunt.
Now he is called to search for a sadistic serial killer who slays with his bare hands. But when the killer learns he is being hunted, he must kill the only man that can stop him.
Now the hunter becomes the prey. When the two forces collide, there will be a full impact.
I guess J.T. is Jake, but now he like Dog the Bounty Hunter, except he sucks and there is probably no fighting in the streets.
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I guess this guy got StreetFighted, American style! Wait, Captain Picard??? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Future War – There is no more famous Cine Excel film than Future Wax – I mean War! Famous thanks to MST3K, which blew the lid off of bad filmmaking from the company. Accept no substitutes, as Cine Excel really outdid themselves with this story of a man who escapes from aliens to Earth, where he is chased by cyborgs and their pet dinosaurs. Please note that it is not the future and there is no war. But the dinosaurs do explode.
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MST3K link
Expert Weapon aka American Dragon
Mel Novak plus Joe Estavez!
Adam Collins made the biggest mistake a criminal could make… murdering a police officer.
Awaiting execution, Adam is recruited by a secret government organization. Under the watchful eye of the organization’s ruthless leader Janson, the training of martial arts expert Miller, the beautiful and seductive Lynn, and psychotic weapons master Magnet, Adam is transformed into the Expert Weapon.
When Adam decides he can kill no more, he falls for the blind wife of the man he murdered. But there’s no leaving the organization… and the Expert Weapon must kill again.
So this is just La Femme Nikita? Lame. They should of had some fun, like Le Dude Nikito or something like that.
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Too cool for school
Flare Fu!
Joe Estevez on a normal day
Capital Punishment
Gary Daniels once again “stars” in a movie. Mel Novak is also in this mess.
The fiery fight sequences blaze onto the screen as the greatest kung fu legends ever blur the line between good and evil. It is the ultimate battle of student versus master… and only one will escape…
Escape? You mean they don’t kill each other? How lame. Oh, I think they mean escape with their lives. I’m a bit confused as to why they dropped the fire imagry that they were using. Maybe spice it up some more: the greatest kung fu legends ever flame the line between spark and smoke. It is the ultimate four alarm fire in a gasoline-soaked warehouse… and only one will go out the fire escape…
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I will poke you with my long thumbnail!
Hyper Space aka The Black Forest
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Why the forest got to be black? RACIST! It even has Superfly himself, Ron O’Neal. Also has Subzero, aka Professor Toru Tanaka (seen here in Catch the Heat) and Big John Studd.
Six friends awake from “cryo-sleep” to find themselves marooned in space with only one way home – a single passenger shuttlecraft. The close friends are transformed into bitter rivals as the countdown to shuttle launch becomes a fight for life.
When truth turns to lies and trust becomes betrayal, who will be the sole survivor from Hyper Space?
When the Truth is found…to be lies, and all the joy…within you dies. Won’t you want somebody to love? Won’t you need somebody to love? You better find somebody to love!
Subzero!
Karate Wars aka Bloodfight 3
There are wars, and there are Karate Wars! Gerald Okamura loves Karate Wars, and thus is starring in this mess of a film. Starring Christopher Wolf, the kind of action hero that makes you go “Who?”
When the “Karate Wars” tournament announces a million dollar prize, the rival “Warriors” issue an all-or-nothing challenge. Oyama’s students train rigorously, and for the first time, Jason and his classmates learn the virtues of discipline.
But a greater battle is still ahead. When the “Karate Wars” is cancelled, another war begins. “Karate Wars” becomes a private tournament without fame or money. The prize: self-respect.
Self Respect, the greatest prize of all….NOT! The Karate Wars is like the Secret Wars, where Spiderman gets a black costume that becomes Venom. Here, Gerald Okamura gets a black costume that becomes an acting job in a decent movie.
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Sweep the leg, Johnny!
Pocket Ninjas aka Triple Dragon – I actually paid $4 for this DVD, which can also be found in the $1 bin now with the cardboard case. Pocket Ninjas was reviewed and bashed by Something Awful, then suddenly a year or two later they got a ranting legal threat from the proiducer over their bashing of the film. He was laughed at and nothing happened. In fact, he was more entertaining than Pocket Ninjas. Starring Robert Z’Dar for about three seconds, but mostly starring annoying kids and Gary Daniels, who as we all know stars in every Cine Excel film ever.
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Hey, it’s the Japanese version of those racist WW2 comic book covers!
Throw Mama from the Pocket Ninja!
Tao of Karate
Discover the art of Karate in an exciting, easy-to-follow exercise video aimed at children ages 6 and up.
I am waiting for the Tao of Cinema movie, maybe then Cine Excel can put out something decent.
Cine Excel owns several production libraries, probably because several of the founders are members of other, older, crappier production companies that folded. We’ll hit one now, and do the rest in Megapost 3
Bottom Line Studios:
Not much about them, except the Donahue family was big involved. Patrick G. Donahue is a constant star, and Sean P. Donahue stars and directs many of them. Most of these movies have little or no information about them anywhere, though some of that is probably due to their generic titles.
Ground Rules – Frank Stallone! Patrick G. Donahue! Sean P. Donahue!
Shattered Dreams – Erik Estrada! Frank Stallone! Patrick G. Donahue! Sean P. Donahue!
Kill Squad – 12 Hands… 12 Feet… 24 Reasons To Die! Sean P. Donahue!
Parole Violators – Sean P. Donahue! (playing character “Miles Long”) Thrill to the action of….Miles Long, who VIOLATES PAROLE! Never before has a character violated parole on the silver screen. Are you tough enough to witness….the PAROLE VIOLATORS!!!
Roughcut – Patrick G. Donahue! Sean P. Donahue!
