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Raven Hawk [VHS]

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Rachel Mclish is totally AWESOME!!! Rachel reminds me of a Greek Goddess. She packs a punch in this movie. Although, her lines are few theirs lots of action. She doesn't really need to say much. The movie is not only avenging her murdered parents, but about government corruption, special interest, collusion, and a toxic waste site on Indian Land.

Rachel, sophisticated,cool,calm,& collect, gets the job done as she eliminates the competition, or should I say SCUM. Payback, is much deserved. Way to go, Rachel!!!

I normally do not enjoy movies that are full of conflict and at first I chose not to see Ravenhawk. But I kept coming back to the movie and reading the back of the box for the plot and decided to take a chance that this might have a moral message. I was extremely impressed with the plot and the way that the individual characters were portrayed. You could relate to the feelings of the lead character and understand her pain and depth of her feelings. It was very well acted and the actions scenes where realistic and all neccessary to the over all plot. There was no wasted action or emotion and all the elements of the movie came together, I thought, to give it a well rounded look at all sides of the issues. Even if you do not enjoy action movies with fighting you might still enjoy this movie. Especially if you enjoy native american drama that has a strong spiritual and family base message.

This movie was great! The storyline was excellent and very true-to-world. Rachel McLish, was superb! She didn't say much, however... she didn't need to. Actions speak louder than words.

Raven Hawk was a bit of a disappointment, considering the makeup of the cast: John de Lancie (Star Trek's Q) and Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner from the X-Files) among others. The film brings to the screen the story of an Indian girl whose parents were murdered by agents of a large coorperation, which wanted to build a nuclear waste disposal plant inside an Indian reservation. If that wasn't enough they framed the girl and had her convicted of her parents' deaths.
In short, the acting is about average, the dialogues are below average, while the plot is above average and quite interesting; the common denominator being "average."
Some of the reviewers were expecting nudity and were let down resulting in quite a few low review scores. To that, one has to add the poor dialogues and the bad choice of lines that many of the actors were given: "She remained primitively tied to her Indian culture." No comment is required on the use (or misuse) of the word "primitive" here.
As for the rating, it's not really R-Rated material as it is PG-13; no sex, not too much violence, very little blood.
In a nutshell, Raven Hawk is a low budget film and it clearly shows. It's an okay movie, and that's about it; No masterpiece here...

Rachel Mclish is totally AWESOME! Rachel reminds me of a Greek Goddess. She packs a punch in this movie. Although, her lines are few theirs lots of action. She doesn't really need to say much. The movie is not only avenging her murdered parents, but about government corruption, special interest, collusion, and a toxic waste site on Indian Land.

Rachel, sophisticated,cool,calm,& collect, gets the job done as she eliminates the competition, or should I say SCUM. Payback, is much deserved. Way to go, Rachel!

Bought this movie for someone else, but I have seen it and liked it. It has a good story line, plenty of action

this is one of my favs, and it is hard to find, it reminds you of how the indians had it and how they were treated and how they suffered. it is often time forgotten how it was for indians, this one and thunderheart are very good stories on the indians. you have to cheer her on to get revenge for her parents death, this is a nice little gem, a typical 80 flick.

Well, I think just about everyone agrees Rachel McLish had a much better bodybuilding career than an acting one. In this Class B action film, she's the female equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first action movie, "Conan The Barbarian."

Of course, Arnold made an incredible career out of his acting and has gone on to bigger and better things. This was it for Rachel, acting-wise. Oh, well, at least she was a two-time Ms. Olympia winner.

To McLish's credit, she looked good in the film which was made when she was about 40 years of age. How many 40-year-olds do you know are in the shape this woman was here? And, in her defense, the person who wrote the dialog for this film didn't help her out much. The screenplay is really lame. Not many actresses would look good with dialog this dumb.

Basically, what we have here is another simple revenge tale, and not one that is well-done. Not recommended.

The directing in this movie sucks. The kids and I were like the little robots on MST3K during the whole movie. The directing was so bad we couldn't stop commenting on it and watch the darn movie. If Rob Taipert or Joss Wheadon directed it with the exact same cast it would have been one of the hottest female action films around. This director didn't capitalize on Rachel's striking beauty and her physical ability to do the stunts. Her character is very Xena and Buffy like with a dash of Linda Hamilton. The story was OK and entertaining. I don't blame her and the other actors for the "average" acting and schizophrenic photography. It was the director's fault. It's almost as if he had ADD or something. Amatuer. And where's the really cool outfit Rachel was wearing on the cover of the video box? I think all the cries for nudity would be quelled if they just put her in that outfit with scenes where you could really take in her looks and expressions. CAN WE PLEASE DO THIS MOVIE OVER AGAIN WITH A REAL DIRECTOR?!

I am an admirer of buff and muscular women, which is why I bought this movie. Ravenhawk did not deliver the goods for me. Besides being a bad movie, there is nothing that capitalizes on Ravenhawk's beautiful muscles and wonderful build.

There is only one scene where you get to see the very beautiful and muscular hero flex her ripped back, and it's brief. In addition, it's from the back and during the night, as she stands near a fire.

This movie would be better if it featured her beating up much smaller and weaker men with her bare hands. It could also be improved if there was nudity, and scenes that concentrated on her flexing and working out.

This movie isn't revealing at all. I recommend Skin Deep (staring John Ridder) for a scene involving a very ripped female bodybuilder.

Sorry fellow lovers of ripped and buff babes.