Review of Blind Fury

Blind Fury is too funny to be serious, which you would of expected to be. Instead, what you get is a film that doesn't take itself so seriously, a slapstick, of action film of continuity, as in action I mean. Our Rutger, great as always, loses his vision while fighting the wars in the humid jungles of Vietnam. Taken in by some villages, he's trained as a samurai swordsman, which is rewarding in the end, where he graduates as the ultimate sword master. Remember, he's blind, and when we see all the instruments of injury he dodges, and bad guys he takes out, we ask ourselves, how could of he become this good. Answer: It's only a movie. No blind guy could be capable of this, except Rutger, in this heavy action pic of continuity with shades of humor too. Rutgers's vet friend (The Stepfather's Terry O'Quinn) is in deep trouble in Vegas, as having to owe all this money, to these mob swindlers. Saving Quinn's son, from death, where the mother's taken out, Rutger and kid head to Vegas. He's aided by Quinn's girlfriend (Lisa Blount) and they set to take these guy's down. Far fetched as it (one scene has Rutger behind the wheel, speeding towards a wall, missing it by sheer centimeters, when braking), the action, and fighting which would of taken hours of training are well choreographed. This film is just a reason to kill 83 minutes of time at the movies, where we know by now as in almost every of his B grade, straight to video CRAP, the name Rutger means action. Even Sho Kosugi, turns up near the end, as a bad guy, would you believe. Blind Fury, which had a humble cinema running, followed by Salute Of The Jugger, sadly, was the start of an endless of chain of duds for our poor Rutger. The same went for the career of another 'Hitcher' star, C. Thomas Howell. How the hell Rutger caught that teensy toy alligator at the end, when thrown by the kid, on the bridge above, takes the cake of implausible moments in the film. This film too was fresh off the heals of Phillp Noyce's prior hit, Dead Calm.