The Human Tornado

Having just seen Dolemite, I can easily attest that this one is purely funnier. I will watch Disco Godfather soon, which is argued by some to be better still, while many claim Tornado to be the best. The racist cop cliches - GOLD. Dolemite leaping off an ivy covered hill, actually stopping the film, reversing it twice w/ a voiceover to "prove" that he really did it - GOLD. All the hallmarks of a GOOD bad movie. Really over the top, ridiculous fun. My only complaint is one too many shots of Rudy Ray's ass. And Caveletti's main squeeze, who is gratuitously * more often than any other woman in the film, is a 40 plus white woman who is sagging in all the wrong places - couldn't a straight up pimp like Rudy Ray get something a little less 'local?' Oh, wait, he really isn't a pimp or for that matter, anything he claims to be in this movie. His interpretation of Kung Fu is hilarious.

Rudy does it again with this hot off the streets follow up to Dolemite. This entry is filled with the requisite Rudy Ray Moore raunch, humor and martial arts. Rudy eludes a crazy red-neck sheriff in this movie that also features an infamous scene where Rudy dives down a steep hill. See it for laughs and for a brain-blasting hit of Blaxploitation magic.

THE HUMAN TORNADO is a quickly-made follow-up to Rudy Ray Moore's DOLEMITE and a much cheaper and more excessive affair than the original. Moore settles into his role comfortably in a new story that sees him heading off to California to help out an old friend who is in the middle of a war with a sinister gangster. There's very little in the way of plot here, just endless chasing around and bad-mouthed profanity. The sex and nudity content has been ramped up considerably, with one endless bedroom encounter that's played for laughs going on for ten minutes or so. The fight scenes have all been sped up so look as ridiculous as they sound. Watch out for a young and youthful Ernie Hudson as a heavy.

I've not only seen this movie but I bought it! I like the fact that it has everything you'd expect to see in a 70's era movie: kung-fu, sex, crooked cops and all the funky clothes you ever wished to see. If you like low budget 70's movies, it doesn't get any better than this! Check it out.

Dolemite (a lively and engaging portrayal by Rudy Ray Moore) goes after a local mobster who has taken over Queen Bee's club. Meanwhile, a racist redneck sheriff (wildly overplayed by J.B. Baron) tracks Dolemite down to get revenge on him for doing the deed with his wife. Boy, does this incredibly wild'n'nutty flick certainly deliver the hugely enjoyable lowdown trashy and wacky goods: We've got Moore telling some hysterically raunchy jokes, goofy sped-up car chases, paint-peeling profanity, a generous serving of tasty gratuitous female nudity, a sidesplitting example of instant replay, an outrageous bed-shaking sex scene that brings the ceiling down, and, best of all, plenty of gloriously inept and inane over-the-top martial arts action during the stirring climax. A very young and bald Ernie Hudson helps Dolemite out. Arthur Wright's funky-grinding score hits the get-down groovy spot. An absolute hoot and a half.

Now who could criticize a Rudy Ray Moore film? Why would you want to? You can't have accidentally wandered into it. And if you did you could walk out in the first two minutes and just forget about it. Why go out of your way to squawk. Makes no sense. Rudy Ray is what he is. This is burlesque: low comedy and semi-* ladies. You don't wander into a burly-Q show and then squawk because it isn't Shakespeare or the King James, and if you do you're showing a real serious lack of intelligence. So, since I use a binary reviewing method, ie ON or OFF, I hereby give this appalling grindhouse classic a score of 10. Particularly comic is Rudy Ray's absurd vocalizations when he does his faux Kung Fu stuff, and the speeded up segments for the fight scenes. Everybody in the flick looks to be having fun. And why not?

Pronounced "tor-na-da" this is a parody of Blaxploitation. It shows blacks in a bad light and white people worse. Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) starts the film off with a comedy routine that was more crude than funny, even for its day and age. In Alabama, Dolemite gets caught with the sheriff's wife which results in a self defense killing. Dolemite heads back to California where he hides in the open, assisting in club turf wars when he is not being paid for sex. The nuts and bolts of the film are Ed wood bad. The sound didn't always match up to the scene (i.e. tires squeal after the car is stopped and guy is out the door) and the judo/karate/ninja moves would make "The Hillybilly Ninja (U-Tube sensation) cringe. The film is laughable on a number of levels and who doesn't like women kidnapped, stripped, and tortured. Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Glorya de lani, Barbara Gerl, + 2 others) Openly racist with racist terms such as "boy", N-word, and Imus N-word.