Review of MegaForce (1982) by Stefan H — 11 Jun 2017

I was 12 years old when Megaforce came out and my friends and I spent that day commenting on the acting and deeper meaning of the film. Actually, no we didn't we saw motorcycles with machine guns and rockets on them and though they were the coolest thing going. The film was cheesy as hell but would couldn't have cared less, not did we really notice. We spent the summer pretending our BMX bike were the machine from Megaforce and actually used PVC pipe to rig bottle rockets to our handlebars (you know the dumb stuff kids used to do all the time without people having a fit). Also, the film was one for the first actioners I had ever seen where the black character was portrayed as intelligent, yes they used the cheap device of having him quote Shakespeare as he listens to Vivaldi, but compared to the majority of portals of black men in the 70s and 80s it is hard to articulate how huge that was. Sometimes the cheesiest movies are way ahead of the curve when it comes to representation.

Those factors alone allow me to watch this film to this day with a fondness I am sure few understand and I'm OK with that, often one person's trash is another's guilty pleasure.