videorama-759-859391 You can't say this is a bad movie, cause it isn't. I've probably viewed it more times than I've had breakfasts's. It has cool, New Zealander, David Warbeck, a Jack Nicholson type of looking guy, a favourite of these type of cheesy overviolent exploitation flicks. And like many other of these type films, and this, the violence is over the top, just one of the assets to this Vietnam yarn, as well as great priceless tongue and cheek dialogue that always stays with me. It's timeless. It's start is curiously impressive, taking place in a bar/bordello, where one cocky vet pays the price for being too much of an arsehole, and rattling off his mouth, too much, which results in his shocking murder, where the steamed up shooter/vet, then blows his brains out. The bar soon becomes a fireball by attacking rockets. This sequence I must say, is beautifully filmed. This early section of story I found was the best. Some of the violence in this, as like many other of these exploitative flicks, I warn you, is not for the faint of heart. One example has a guy riding in a helicopter, when under attack. He cops it in the eye, where we're horribly subjected to an extreme close up, where the eyeball has totally gone, blood just filtering out of it's niche. The plot has Warbeck, as Captain Harry E Morris, who earns the movie's title by the end of the film. He's sent on a mission to blow up a radio transmitter, where he rendezvous with a collection of wild vets, and too, the last thing he needs, but gets, is a foreign correspondent reporter (Tisa Farrow from Fingers and the sister of the more widely known Mia Farrow). They encounter a lot of combat, where the number of the squad steadily decreases. Poor Farrow also encounter a group of horny vets from another squad. We're not expecting a Vietnam masterpiece, here, but this is the next best thing, if you want to throw realism out the window. There's also a scene familiar to The Deer Hunter in this, this one much more intense, where Harry literally has to keep to swatting off the rats with his shirt, where the other victim kept in the underground cage has surrendered. And here's a film you should surrender to. Cheesy exploitative cinema at it's best, a one man war in the lush jungles of Vietnams, with an added surprise near the end, you won't see in a million years, coming. I liked too the songs, themed or sung. The great Steiner has a guest role as the foul mouthed head of that other group of horny vets, a great performance I liked, and who Warbeck accidentally kill while operating a flame thrower in this madness of war.

mazec666 Antonio Margheriti's (CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE) first Macaroni Combat film, a genre that would become his final mainstay, is an outrageously, over-the-top thrill ride with no political agenda whatsoever.After witnessing the grim suicide of his shell-shocked buddy, a burned-out Army captain (David Warbeck, THE BEYOND) agrees to take on a final suicide mission with the help of two black soldier dudes (Tony King and Bobby Rhodes) and a fine-looking photojournalist (Tisa Farrow, ZOMBIE).As the first Macaroni Combat film about Vietnam, THE LAST HUNTER certainly delivers the exploitation goodness with just a hint of brief nudity. Although the script from Dardano Sacchetti is filled with unintentionally hilarious dialog, mainstream audiences may be turned off by the lack of historical context. Warbeck gives a good performance that is a literal reminiscent of Martin Sheen's Willard from APOCALYPSE NOW.And speaking of that Coppola epic, the Philippine locations in which the film was shot are in fact leftover sets. It comes to show that no matter how blatant the filmmakers are, THE LAST HUNTER is certainly a pleasure to look at just for the settings. Despite not being a good actress as her sister, Tisa does give some enthusiasm into the character and it works rather well.Turn off your brains and enjoy the mindless Italian action.

The_Void The Last Hunter is Italian director Antonio Margheriti's take on the Vietnam flick - and as you would expect, it goes straight for the jugular and removes all the soul searching stuff found in films like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and the result is...entertaining, but underwhelming. Any depth is replaced by an array of violence and bloodshed, and that means that the film entertains on the surface but doesn't do much more than that...although I can't condemn it too much since I'm not the biggest fan of the 'great' Vietnam movies anyway. The plot is just as flimsy as you would expect and we focus on an American soldier. He's been given a mission to go deep behind enemy lines and destroy a radio transmitter that is sending out demoralising messages to the American soldiers, telling them words to the effect of 'go home and give up fighting someone else's war'. He picks up some allies along the way and of course gets involved in more than his fair share of fighting.The film stars David Warbeck who does well as the grizzled American soldier at the centre of the film. It's clear that he wasn't the most important thing as far as Antonio Margheriti was concerned, however, as he's far more interested in packing as much violence as possible into the film, and he does a good job with that; as shown by the many fight scenes. Every fight scene in the film is full on and very bloody; and the special effects are fairly realistic also, which adds to the credibility of the film. However, it all comes down to the fact that the film doesn't have much of a point. Of course sitting through the action is entertaining but there's no reason to really care for it and the film drags on numerous occasions as a result. It all boils down to an ill-advised and really rather silly twist at the end...but hey, I can't say I was expecting anything clever. Overall, The Last Hunter might be of interest to anyone who enjoys low Italian rip offs and/or war movies, but anyone hoping for a great Vietnam flick is in for a disappointment.

alexander.stroeck Although I'm a fan of the war movie genre I hardly could get through this. This movie has 20 minutes of good, believable and tense scenes - the rest is really cheap and not even entertaining. I trusted some of the reviews here and bought the DVD unfortunately. Do not waste your money on this one - see the real A.N.Redux instead. ... not to mention the STRANGE soundtrack (No - you will NOT love it)!