Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

God was i bored throughout the hour and thirty minutes that was this video product. A sequel to Crackerjack 2 & 1. haven't seen them yet but i've watch reviews on youtube and this has NOTHING to do with those movies. beyond that it's pretty boring in general. don't bother.

I'd like to start by saying, I LOVE B-movies....seriously...I am a big fan of Lundgren,Van Damme,Norris,Snipes,Seagal and the rest & even find a lot of undemanding cerebral pleasure from Sci-Fi Channel Originals. But this is so unwatchable I've never watched it to the end, I always end up switching off at the Garden gnome in the factory scene, Because I Just think to myself...what I doing watching this garbage...I think judging by the soundtrack (of what I've seen) this is meant to be very tongue in cheek...what with the jaunty Country Music during the fishing scene and whatnot....but this is just terrible, the actors are sleepwalking, The Director couldn't care less and the production budget while not THAT low is used badly...very badly..Soooo many people on IMDb refer to various Movies being worse than ED Wood's, I very much doubt many of them have actually seen his Films, they just use his name as a reference.... Well I have seen some of his movies... and can tell you that this is far worse!!! at least Wood's films were Watchable in a so bad it's good way, This stuff just rapes your Brain and makes you thicker every time you watch it.... after 4 attempts now of trying and failing to making it past the mentioned scene, the DVD is now in the Trash Can.I can't believe my eyes when I See More people have given this unwatchable garbage a rating of 10 than anything else......My god!!! people actually rate this - up there with Casablanca....Well you guys should surely be dragged away from your houses from guys in white coats anytime now.No stars out of ***** (If I see another film that's worse, I'd be very Surprised)

When I stumbled across a home video release of Crackerjack 3, I bought it for a couple of reasons. First, I thought it was a "sequel" to a 1994 movie called Crackerjack, with Thomas Ian Griffith as a cop and Christopher Plummer as a neo-Nazi, clashing at a mountain resort over a complicated plan to steal millions in mob diamonds and to cover it up. That movie had lame writing and acting, but still managed to be a fairly entertaining low-budget knockoff of movies in the Die Hard mold. Second, I bought the movie because of Bo Svenson, who I had liked years earlier in "Walking Tall."As Crackerjack 3 played, I could barely believe my eyes. The supposed "action" movie does not even try to be serious. It is sheer farce. The "Crackerjack" name is a misleading gimmick. There is no continuity with anything from before. The music, tone, pacing, acting, and characters are all suited for a bad comedy, not a drama. Everything in the film, including the rag-tag assortment of elderly ex-spies, assembled by Svenson to combat his corrupt successor as head of a covert spy agency, seem to be played for an unfunny joke. The story is so thin, disorganized, slow-moving, aimless, and boring that the only thoughts it provokes are of the clock and the fast-forward button. The prior review gives a fuller description, with which I agree, except for its belabored, undue partiality for the actor playing the villain; he floundered as ineffectively as everybody else in the film.I can honestly think of nothing good to say. This movie is as close to a pointless, worthless waste of time and money as any I have ever seen.

I haven't seen Crackerjack 1 or 2, and on the basis of this film, i really don't want to...Basically the premise is that aging Head of Covert Operations and ex-Navy Seal Jack Wild has reached retiring age, and is looking forward to a future filled with fishing and no worries... but the replacement for his job - Clay - has plans to use his position of power for nefarious purposes..... I could go into more detail, but its really too boring...What really bugged me about this film was how little action there was! For a plot involving gun battles, nuclear devices, explosions and fights, i was pretty close to falling asleep on several occasions, mostly, i think, down to the fact that our hero Jack and his little army of cohorts, are all about 70 years of age! This wouldn't be a problem if the old guys kicked loads of ass, but instead they just stand around and TALK, TALK, TALK!! They potter about, talking (in foreign accents that, a lot of the time, i didn't even understand - but its OK, because i didn't care either...), and being generally quite awful old men, while our hero Jack fishes a lot and spends half the film looking through a manual for a cell-phone he doesn't know how to work! Edge of the seat stuff! Although Crackerjack 3 does have its good points (Jacks assistant Amy Weber is lovely! And the great Olivier Gruner plays the evil Clay... he's totally wasted in the thankless role, but his presence was why i bought this film!) the script is lazy, boring and filled with plot-holes... I watched this with my little sister and even she spotted some! There really were too many silly things in this film, literally dozens! Some that spring to mind are...1) Jack spends a lot of the film fishing (thrilling stuff) but he clearly hasn't got a clue.. heres a hint, Jack - put some bait on the end of the line.2) One of Jacks awful old buddies has a side-business in the cut-throat world of garden gnomes (???!!!!) and employs a group of children to paint them! (WHY????) And, not only that, but in the same room as the kids, he has a table full of loaded guns! With a cloth over them, so the kids wont look under that, will they??!? 3) The bad guy Clay locks Jack in a room and boasts how the keypad lock has over 20 million combinations - and then proceeds to type in the code in full view of Jack. Even more stupid, Jack doesn't even notice...4) In this film, instead of vans full of escaping commandos going straight through a flimsy wooden gate, they go slowly AROUND it... and proceed to get blown sky-high from ONE BULLET from an ordinary hand-gun.There's too many other stupid things in this film to count them all. The only fun you can garner from this film is spotting them all, so i wont spoil things too much.Something i cant help you with though, is how amazingly boring the whole thing is... You soon start to wonder how somebody as useless and stupid as Jack Wild could ever become Head of Covert Operations...All in all, don't waste your time with this film unless you're a die-hard Olivier Gruner fan - its stupid, boring, badly-written, and has as its 'heroes' a group of old men so mean-spirited, irritating and unfunny that its hard to care whether they live or die.