Review of The Last Mercenary

A pointless effort starring Ray Danton better remembered as the serial rapist in The Beat Generation (1959) or the gangster Jack Diamond in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960). The Spanish-Italian-West-German collaboration was shot in South America, and Ray is looking well-groomed and the acting is wooden. An interesting scene is where Mister Anderson (Ray) arrives at a village cottage carrying a similar back bag to that in The First Blood! What if Rambo had also, instead of having been harrassed by the local sheriff, seen the eye-catching carousel... The score is, in the beginning, promising, but tends to turn into tediousness. The action takes place at 1 hours 22 secs and last for a few minutes. Other than that it is all-too-prudish and long dialog going on... and the mercs can't even smoke their cigars properly. Do avoid this pile of turd, and turn, instead, to another Last Mercenary title: Rolf aka Last Mercenary (1983) directed by the iconoclastic Mario Siciliano.