From my favorite movies..

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Ruggero 'we need more animal deaths and rape here' Deodato manages to almost make a decent film without all the disturbing crap, just like he did with Atnaaanalanais Interceptors, only this time he does seem to be reminding the world that he was the director of Cannibal Holocaust (Emmerdale version) and Last Cannibal World of Emmerdale. This time some guys are killing coke dealers world wide and stealing their stuff, prompting a mong journalist to try and track down Richard Lynch, who seems to be tied in with all the stuff that's going on, plus his slim line bald murder guy. Michael Barrymore. Michael's fresh from drowning folk in his swimming pool and has graduated to killing everyone involvoed in the coke trade and my god polish beer is strong. Volvo? The jouranlist and her camera dude head out to the jungle to meet John Stiener (the best thing about this film) and see first hand the work of crazy cult leader Richard lynch. Blah blah blood, blah blah gore, blah blah boobs, blah bkah oucjhc#####There's pubes too. Ruggero did us a great film in Atalntis Raiders, and Body Count was good too. Other than that this is your usual Italian mid eighties set in Miami and Philiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipines type stuff.

So, this is it: the finally of Ruggero Deodattos „Amazonia"- (better known as „Cannibal")-trilogy. Almost needless to say that "Cut and Run" in no way lives up to the standards of the infamous "Cannibal Holocaust" but then again, I dare say that no other movie has achieved that to date.Apart from some very gory scenes of carnage and mayhem (decapitations, gutting and a man being ripped into half), the location, Deodattos misogyny and condescending attitude towards the indigenous crew, "Cut and Run" and "Cannibal Holocaust" haven't got much in common. The later is a hardcore horror-film, containing what some have termed "animal snuff", yet actually had a deeper meaning, that criticized the 1970's Mondo-genre (exploitive and often partially faked pseudo-documentaries) and the Medias attitude toward what they considered primitive cultures."Cut and Run" is a more straight action-thriller about a surviving Jonestown leader Colonel Horn (Richard Lynch) who, with the help of an Indio tribe, rips off American cocaine smugglers in the Amazon and a couple of journalists (Lisa Blount and Leonard Mann) out to interview Horn and rescue the missing son of their producer (Willie Ames).What speaks for the film (apart from the rather heavy violence and gore, presuming this is your thing and the reason to come across "Cut and Run" in the first place) is a very hostile, depressing, even misanthropic atmosphere. This is another thing that "Cut and Run" and "Cannibal Holocaust" have in common. Lynch, as a mix between insane Reverend Jones and drug-peddling General Kurtz, plays the role he has been born to play; same goes for Michael Berryman, who plays a psychopathic killer-Indio; albeit, both only have a few minutes of screen-time. John Steiner is a sadistic, sneering drug-runner, nothing we didn't come to expect from Steiner there. The rest of the are bit-players who go through the motions, trying hard not to embarrass themselves or, like in the case of Karen Black, aren't given much to work with.If at all possible, Deodatto managed to make the local Indios look even more ape-like than in "Cannibal Holocaust". The grimace, rape and hop from tree to tree, one is instinctively reminded of the sub-humans in Ralph Bakshi pre-stone-age cartoon "Fire and Ice". Like a participant in "Cannibal Holocaust" said: "Deodatto killed apes, turtles and iguanas, but he treated the animals with more respect than he did the natives." Five points from ten – that's one for Lynch, one for Berryman, one for the atmosphere and two for the gore-content and special-effects.And, on a ps-note, watch out for a very young Eric La Salle ("Coming to America", here playing a jive-talking', purple fedora-wearing pimp which, we had presumed, had died out with 1970's blaxploitation film) and try not to watch out for Hugo Weaving in an extra-role – he's nowhere to be found in "Cut and Run"; his participation is an urban legend.

Five years after he shocked the world with his controversial gut-muncher Cannibal Holocaust, director Ruggero Deodato returned to the jungle to deliver another dose of nastiness in the form of brutal adventure Cut and Run.In this entertaining slice of gory, exploitative action, Lisa Blount plays Fran, a TV reporter who, along with her cameraman Mark (Leonard Mann), travels to the Amazon where she hopes to interview Colonel Brian Horne (Richard Lynch), the supposedly dead right-hand-man of infamous cult leader Jim Jones, whilst also attempting to locate her boss's missing son Tommy (Willy Aames), who is being held in the jungle against his will by evil drug traffickers.Despite once again dealing with the themes of reportage and the media, Deodato stays clear of any attempts at a Cannibal Holocaust-style social commentary, preferring instead to concentrate on giving viewers a bloody good time (and I mean bloody!). Large amounts of graphic violence (which includes numerous decapitations and impalements, a disembowelment, and a guy being completely torn in half); frequent scenes of rape and female nudity (including welcome nekkidness from the gorgeous Valentina Forte); and a whole lot of nonsense involving a tribe of bloodthirsty natives (led by bald genre favourite Michael Berryman): all of this takes precedence over narrative cohesion, but it matters not a jot, 'cos you'll be having way too much fun to care.In addition to all the gory mayhem, we are also treated to a dreadful cameo performance from Karen Black, a nifty turn from ER's Eriq La Salle as a fedora wearing informant, an effective synth score from Goblin's Claudio Simonetti, lush cinematography by Alberto Spagnoli, and, perhaps best of all, a chance to see Willy Aames display his complete lack of emotional range in some unintentionally hilarious dramatic scenes.Nowhere near as horrific as Holocaust, nor quite as gruelling as Deodato's Jungle Holocaust, Cut and Run is still a worthwhile example of the jungle adventure/survival horror sub genre—just make sure that you watch the uncut version for full effect!

CUT AND RUN has one thing going for it: it moves. This movie may be a lot of things, but boring isn't one of them. It held my attention from beginning to end, end even shocked me a couple of times.A drug king (Richard Lynch) in South America and his partners have recruited a tribe of cannibals to aid them in their business, which is stealing other drug dealers' product and shipping it throughout the world as their own. A rich executive's son (Willie Aames) has fallen in with these people, and a female reporter (Lisa Blount) and her cameraman travel to the Amazon to investigate Lynch's business and hopefully locate Aames. Their transmissions are sent back for TV executive Karen Black to approve for network airing. Eric Lasalle (of ER) has a small part as a pimp who points Blount in the right direction.You'd think with a (somewhat) higher-scale cast than director Ruggero Deodatto had ever worked with before, he'd have managed to gain some level of respectability with this movie. However, with the exception of Lynch (who's great) and Lasalle, the performances are pretty terrible. Aames's performance is so hilariously awful, it's a miracle that he ever had any kind of career in show business. However, the great Michael Berryman plays a psychotic mute henchman with great enthusiasm.There's no on screen cannibalism to speak of, but there are a few moments of violence at which even jaded viewers may be taken aback. In one scene, a pair of women are raped, but first have their legs spread and nailed to the floor! In another, a man is caught in a trap, where his legs are pulled apart until he is ripped in half from the groin up. It's pretty disgusting.Overall, CUT AND RUN is a passable time-waster. It's more of an action movie than horror, but has its share of horrific moments. Other than the above mentioned scenes of violence, it's one of Deodatto's tamer movies. The fact that it started out as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST II is hard to believe.