Deadly Reactor

USA • 1989 • 88m •

• Directed by: David Heavener. • Starring: Stuart Whitman, David Heavener, Darwyn Swalve, Alyson Davis, Barbara Kerek, Arvid Holmberg, Ray Spinka, David Leach, Philip Hillery, Norman Bernard, Ace Cruz, Cyndra Williams, Dan Zukovic. • Music by: Brian Scott Bennett.

In a post-apocalypse world inhabited by the Amish, a roving gang led by the corpulent Hog is making life miserable for the peaceful townspeople. Only one lone gunfighter dares to stand in their way. He never draws first - he's the reactor!

Review:

This was David Heaveners' laughable homage to copy of the westerns of Clint Eastwood, combining as it does elements of the Dollar films, Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world purely as a cost-cutting measure. A Western would have required horses and costumes and you wouldn't be able to hire bikers to play the heavies for a couple of barrels of beer.

The other reviewers have amply covered the ludicrous aspects of this movie that make it so stupid, so funny and so entertaining. But the highspot to me came when the townsfolk were waiting for the biker gang to attack them. Our hero shows them how to use guns, but then, just before the gang are due to arrive, he leaves the town and the townsfolk to their own devices. WHY? He liked the townsfolk. He loved one of the women. He wanted revenge on the bikers. Why ride away and leave the townsfolk to certain death etc? And it suddenly struck me. That is what Eastwood did in High Plains Drifter......

Review by Spudling2 from the Internet Movie Database.

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