PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological*
Though there's a lot of junk-film that yields insights even through their ineptitude. some flicks are just a black hole of worthlessness.
One opening that occurred to me was to spotlight the good looks of leading lady Athena Massey, as I have done above, and claim that this was the only half-decent aspect of the film.
An alternative was to mention that the name of the protagonist, Dylan Pope, was the best thing about the movie. But then I realized the writer probably used some app to toss together dozens of "cool hero names," so I can't even give TERMINATION MAN that much credit.
In the final analysis, this is just a "deal" movie, in which American crap-maker Roger Corman agreed to produce a movie as long as it was shot on the cheap in Central Europe. The movie needed an equally cheap American actor with a merchandisable "name," so the filmmakers got Steve Railsback, still barely known for anything but his perf in a TV-movie about Charles Manson. They added an actress willing to do some brief nudity, Athena Massey. Finally, they cobbled together a stupid plot about a bionically enhanced secret agent, Dylan Pope, and gave him some BS mission about preventing a Serbian terrorist from unleashing a deadly gas on Europe.
The utter cheapness of the movie is most damaging in the fact that this supposed Sixty-Dollar Man can't really do much of anything but run fast and heal his wounds quickly. To me this means that either the filmmakers weren't willing to spring for fight coordinators or that Railsback didn't want to do any fights. I could easily believe the latter, because the actor gives one of the most lackadaisical performances I've ever seen in an alleged action movie.
And that's all I have to say about this cinematic turd.
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