Blu-ray Review – Mercenary Fighters

International conflicts turned into B-movie spectacle was the Cannon Films way throughout the 1980s, with producers Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan trying to keep things exotic for the audience, and also score some cheap locations in the process. For 1988's "Mercenary Fighters," the production travels to South Africa to explore a story concerning tribal relations in the continent, detailing some political unrest that requires brute Americans to solve. There are no surprises in "Mercenary Fighters," which delivers the same old Cannon formula, this time involving star Peter Fonda, who tries to do something worth paying attention to in an otherwise generic actioner that's somehow under the impression it's offering a respectful understanding of war and all its cruelties. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com