Equalizer 2000 Reviews

Like their Italian counterparts, Filipino science-fiction action/adventures almost defy criticism. Both shamelessly imitate superior American, British, or Australian films, reworking stock plots that were old when sound came to the movies, but adding more sex and violence and car crashes. This MAD MAX rip-off is set in Alaska "after the Nuclear Winter," which means that the 49th state has become a desert. Oil, the most prized commodity, is lorded over by The Ownership, a kind of mini-military-industrial complex. Naturally there's a rebel movement, not to mention an Indian-like group--the mountain people. Norton is an officer for the Ownership who deserts when his father is betrayed during a rebel ambush. He is captured by the rebels, but escapes, and soon meets Wahl, a voluptuous babe who is being chased by a gang of white-trash lowlifes. After a series of car crashes, she takes him back to her home. There he plots to overthrow the Ownership. Apart from car chases, there's little here of interest. The film was apparently largely filmed within a quarry, and audiences will begin to feel as if they've seen certain streches of rock-wall background before. Norton doesn't do much beyond flexing his pectorals and looking rugged, while Wahl, a former Penthouse magazine pet of the year and wife of actor Ken Wahl, looks nice but has a silly voice.