Product Details

• Actors: Bobby Bass, Michael Beck, Barry Bostwick, Michael Carman, Robert Fuller
• Directors: Hal Needham
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: August 30, 1990
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300247538
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,582 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This film should be on DVD!, November 1, 2004

By	Hizon "Jerry" (Makati Philippines) - See all my reviews

Spread the cheese!!!! Someone should release this classic 80s action flick! As one reviewer pointed out, MegaForce mirrors US' post 9/11 strategy, it might be DubYah's favorite movie.

What I remember about this movie when I saw it as a kid, was the cool rocket-firing motorcycles (which later appeared in the PC game Command & Conquer), the dune buggies (which became real in the US Army's Fast Attack Vehicle) and other fantastic military hardware. Also, no bullet nor projectile can't touch Barry Bostwick despite in a motorcycle without any armor! And as far as I remember, they were facing a Mexican dictator! How's that for fostering good relations with your neighbors?

My memory of this movie is rather sketchy, but I knew I loved it so please I want to relive my more innocent days and please release this on DVD!!!! Get Megaforce and watch it back to back with GI Joe the movie!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, classic, classic...., October 13, 2002

By	Ace Hunter (Utica, New York United States) - See all my reviews

When I first saw this film, I believe it was about 1986 or '87, and I was quite young at the time (ala 5). I remember enjoying it quite a bit back then, and throughout my years I always remembered this little cool film called Megaforce.

Finally, through the advent of digital cable, I saw this film on one of a hundred movie stations available to me, about a month ago. I quickly grabbed a tape to record it, and since recording it, have watched about a hundred times. While indeed quite campy, corny, and the effects are appalling (but not like a ton of effects were really working well back then anyways), it was just as cool as I remember it. Ridiculous technology, cheesy lines, and some bad acting here and there, make it for movie that you know not many people have seen, and thus makes it emulatable. It also stars Persis Khambatta (her only other role that I've ever seen her in besides my personal favorite film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), Henry Silva (the ultra-cool Kain from Buck Rogers), and Edward Mulhare (one of the greatest actors in history, particularly for Knight Rider and the fantastic Knight Rider 2000, and he is sorely missed).

Though some may hurl at this true action-comedy that is funny because it doesn't really do it well, the movie elite will recognize it as a gem out of 1983, and probably the second most quotable film to date (the first being Demolition Man).

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put on a blue silk bandana.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Screen Debut!, July 31, 2005

By	Maria G. Fitzpatrick "bookwoman" (Ipan, Guam USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was fortunate enough to have been flying C-130 Hercules from Dyess Air Force Base when this film was made. A call went out for volunteers to go to Las Vegas for an unknown "film project". Most of the guys in the squadron demurred, thinking it would be an "Air Force Now" recruiting propaganda film, and a general hassle. I, on the other hand, would have crawled through shredded glass on hands and knees for ANY excuse to escape West Texas for awhile.

When we contacted McCarran Int'l (Vegas) Airport, we were vectored South and given a radio frequency to contact a Forward Air Control team. They brought us in to land on a dry lake bed. No sweat, this is what the Herc was born to do.

The first clue that something very unusual was up came when a modern, fully air conditioned bus picked us up at the airplane. This was NOT standard USAF procedure! We drove around a sand dune and saw . . . well, I can only describe it as being very much like a circus tent. We were escorted in, and found it was a huge kitchen, serving steaks, lobsters, salads, and everything in between.

We were filled in that we were to fly in a "Major Hollywood Motion Picture" by Hal Needham. It was made clear from the outset that it was intended to be campy, cheesy, ridiculous, and fun. And so it was.

From the tent we were taken to a hotel on the strip, where we each got private rooms (again, not USAF standard), free meal passes, and best of all, invitations to screen the nightly "rushes" or raw footage. There was a buffet and open bar (Yay!) each evening, and we ate and drank liberally while howling at the truly loony dialogue and effects each night.

Meantime, we were flying some extreme tactical operations (which unfortunately do not look as hairy on camera as they felt from the cockpit. At one point in the rushes you could see the bird flying so low that it was kicking up dust devils from the propeller vortices. Unfortunately, our command didn't want that bit on film where the taxpayers and the Brass could see it, and it was cut).

I've been looking for a copy to show my kids and, having found it here, MUST have it!

It was a great, great week or so in the desert, and I shall be ever grateful for the experience. In fact, I still occasionally wear my old "Megaforce Official" windbreaker and belt buckle, which were given to each of us on departure.

Kelly "Not that they aren't a tad tighter these days" Fitzpatrick