An enjoyable and decent B picture about a soldier who fights for his life behind enemy lines during the Vietnam war . Sgt. Salvatore Maggio (Giancarlo Pietre as Timothy Brent) rebels against his heinous commanding officer, whilst they are cut off by the enemy in the jungle . The army sergeant flees being relentlessly chased by the tyrant Captain Harlow (Antonio Marsina) . Things get worse for all of them when sergeant Maggio is trapped in Vietnam jungle , tortured , beaten, and still he fights . Meanwhile a war journalist , Freeman (Allan Collins) , is investigating the dark deeds . All the action of RAMBO - Set in the steamy jungles of Vietnam. The Brutal Story of One Man's Fight for Survival Behind Enemy Lines. You're living a nightmare... in a hell hole they call Nam! The Most Horrific War Movie Ever Made!. The screen explodes in a blazing spectacle of war, there was no escape for... Tornado.
This moving film packs thrills , chills , perilous adventures , relentless feats , buck-loads of explosive action and violent events . This one isn't a film against the Vietnam War , but an entertaning and amusing movie full of noisy action , gore and violence . Medium budget European war film that lost continuity with US cuts . The noisy action is uniformly well-made , especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes in which the tough Sergeant is really besieged by the Vietcong , including some spectacular shootouts and explosions. Anthony M. Dawson or Margheritti as expert in special optical effects and model-making , that's why he provides a lot of explosion , crossfire , gory images , guts and mayhem . This one belongs to Anthony M. Dawson trilogy formed by ¨Tiger Joe¨ and the best : ¨Hunter of the apocalypse¨ or ¨Héros d'apocalypse¨or ¨Cacciatore 2¨ . It's definitely worth revisiting : a gory, explosive war film with plenty of gung-ho heroics , frenetic action , and unfettered by pretensions, political commentary or moralising , Margheriti's movie is pure amusement . It has its potent moments, particularly towards the final when the Sergeant is imprisoned , tortured and attacked by river rats at a sinister well , similar to ¨Deer hunter¨by Michael Cimino and ¨The last Hunter¨by Anthony Dawson himself . Its action scenes are certainly first rate - there're lots of gunfire , helicopters gunned down , full of blowing up , and some pretty enjoyable fights . Timothy Brent is the hero who kicks ass in this thrilling Vietnam wartime movie . Brent is pretty well , he starred some nice films as Warriors of the wasteland , The Assisi Underground, Anonymous Avenger , Mesalina , The Three Musketeers of the West , The last shark , Escape from Bronx , Snow Job , Force G , among others . Unfortunately , he early died of cancer , aged just 55 years-old . He is well supported by a fine plethora of B-actors and regular in Italian sub-genres such as Antonio Marsina , Romano Kristoff , Mike Monty and special mention for Luciano Pigozzi as Alan Collins , who's nicknamed the Italian Peter Lorre, playing a war reporter .
Atmospheric cinematography by cameraman Sandro Mancori . Shot on location , as exteriors were filmed in the Philippines and the interiors scenes shot in Rome. On-location shooting in the Philippines also adds a substantial amount of atmosphere, even though "Tornado" mostly takes place in the daytime . As well as thrilling and evocative musical score by Aldo Tamborelli. The motion picture was professionally directed by terror/action/adventure expert Antonio Margheritti, though it displays some failures and flaws . Anthonio was assisted by his son : Edoardo Margheriti who usually served as second unit filmmaker . Antonio often used pseudonym Anthony M Dawson, he was born in Italy 1930 and passed away in 2002 . Italian writer director of horror and exploitation films, a former university engineering student who began shooting in 1956 . Antonio directs with ordinary aplomb and being especially known for films as Yor, Virus and Horror castle. He was specialist in model-making, optical effects , FX, miniature as floods, scale models and explosions . He directed all kinds of genres such as wartime : The last hunter, Tornado, Codename Wild geese, Der Commander, Command Leopard . SCIFi :War of planets , Planet of the prowl, Criminal of the galaxy, Yor the hunter from the future, Treasure planet . Spaghetti Western as Joko, Dynamite Joe, The stranger and the gunfighter, Take a hard ride, Ghosts go west, Joe implacable, God said to Cain . Terror as Virgin of Nuremberg, Cannibal Apocalypse, Alien from deep, Flesh for Frankenstein. Action : Operation Goldman, Indio, The squeeze, Cyberflic. Rating : 6/10. Acceptable and passable.
