The Secret Force

The only two countries that seem to have the ability to disguise their movies as American are Canada and Italy. This South African-lensed thriller tries to do so, but it constantly shows its true origin - license plates, courtrooms, accents, and other local peculiarities keep popping up, sometimes so blatantly that I'm shocked nobody noticed. Certainly the same people were blind to microphones bobbing into the frame, shadows and reflections of cameramen, and chunks of dirt and crud sticking onto the camera lens! Then the story... ai yi yi! The villains and their various schemes are so overdone and unbelievable that you would swear it was a bad parody of "government conspiracy" movies. It's no wonder no U.S. distributor picked this up when it was first released... though now that it has slipped into the public domain, you can find it at any large warehouse store with a DVD bargain bin.