{"id":11671,"date":"2025-04-10T00:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2025-04-10T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:59:56","slug":"bloodfist-vi-ground-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/04\/10\/bloodfist-vi-ground-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero<\/strong> (1995)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Horizons\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 86 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, language, nudity, some sexuality)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Rick Jacobson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Brendan Brodick and Rob Kerchner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John R. Graham and J. Eric Schmidt\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Gallagher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 31, 1995 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Don \u201cThe Dragon\u201d Wilson, Cat Sassoon, Robin Curtis, Jonathan Fuller, Steve Garvey, Leonard O. Turner, Wynn Irwin, Bert Remsen, Marcus Aurelius, Alex Desir, Dennis Keifer, Howard Jackson, Carl McGee, Michael Blanks, Randy Idieshi, Raymond Storti, Kevin Knotts, Art Camacho, Jon Freedman, Vincent DePalma, Matthew Shoehan, Ed Crick, Rick Cox, Anthony Boyer, Milton Kahn, Patrick J. Statham, Dale E. Turner.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The hits (and kicks) just keep coming with Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero<\/strong>, yet another entry in a series of unrelated action flicks that have nothing but Don \u201cThe Dragon\u201d Wilson in common. This time, the star plays Nick Corrigan, an Army courier who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was a routine assignment. He was simply supposed to deliver some classified documents to the officer in charge at a nuclear launch site and get his signature. It should have been easy. LOL! Like, when is it ever easy? How about NEVER!<\/p>\n

\u00a0It may have been easy to enter the facility, but it won\u2019t be so easy trying to leave. Shortly before Nick\u2019s arrival, Islamic terrorists took over the site, killing most of the personnel save for Major Tillman (Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey) who has something the bad guys want. I\u2019ll come back to this in a moment. One of the bad guys tries to stop Nick from departing, but he\u2019s no match for his superior martial arts skills. Once Nick realizes what he\u2019s gotten himself into, he sticks around to take down the terrorists and stop them from launching a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It bears mentioning that Nick isn\u2019t just any courier. At one time, he was a Special Forces hotshot, a real American hero. Unfortunately, his act of heroism got him demoted because it made a powerful higher-up look bad. Now he\u2019s a glorified delivery boy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s talk about the terrorists now. Their leader is played by Bert Remsen (Code of Silence)…. at first. Let me explain. An old man in an RV- that would be Remsen- drives up to the front gate of the facility and tells the guard his wife requires medical attention. She\u2019s just lying in the back. The guard enters the RV to take a look and quickly gets gunned down by the old man. The rest of the terrorist gang is hiding back there. They drive onto the site and shoot everybody in sight. When they\u2019ve secured the place, the old man goes all Mission: Impossible, pulling off his Bert Remsen mask and revealing himself to be a known terrorist leader named Fawkes (Fuller, Skyscraper).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Fawkes and his cohorts have taken over the launch site with the intention of extorting money from the US government. In order to launch, they need two things: (1) a ten-digit numerical code and (2) two keys. The first item is being covered by Sabian (Aurelius, Full Contact), this movie\u2019s version of the Clarence Gilyard Jr. character from Die Hard. He created a program that will get the code, but it\u2019ll take time. The second is a little harder. Fawkes manages to get a hold of one key. Tillman knows where the other one is and he\u2019s not talking, not even when they threaten to kill his lover Tori (Sassoon, Bloodfist IV) who actually turns out to be in cahoots with the terrorists. The second key, in case you haven\u2019t already guessed, is in the hands of Nick. Tillman managed to slip it to him while signing for the documents. No spoiler here, Fawkes will eventually have everything he needs to launch an attack if his demands aren\u2019t met. That\u2019s what he says anyway. The truth is he plans to do it regardless, all in the name of Allah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero <\/strong>is a blatant Die Hard rip-off (with elements of Twilight\u2019s Last Gleaming) all the way from the one-man response team to the authority figure outside mucking things up. Here, it\u2019s General Carmichael (Irwin, Lotsa Luck!), a sexist bonehead who insists on playing it by the book even though it\u2019s clearly the wrong move. We even get an Al Powell character in the form of Major Marin (Curtis, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock). She communicates with Nick throughout offering up words of encouragement while he tries to prevent a catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Rick Jacobson (Full Contact), Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero<\/strong> is a decent actioner that has all the earmarks of a Roger Corman production. It\u2019s cheap and unoriginal. The fight choreography is unimaginative. The acting is just bad. Wilson gives the same performance in every movie. He has some good moves, but the acting range of driftwood. The late Sassoon, in her second Bloodfist film, is good at looking like a mean bitch. Fuller hams it up shamelessly as the main villain as do several of his co-stars, especially the Asian guy and the bald guy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The one original thing about Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero<\/strong> is that the cast doesn\u2019t include any professional martial artists other than Wilson. It\u2019s weird seeing the credits for one of these movies without any names being accompanied by titles held by the \u201cactor\u201d. However, it does have a baseball player so I guess that counts for something.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero<\/strong> is pretty decent for a DTV movie. Yes, it\u2019s flawed big time, but only if you\u2019re looking at it like a major studio production. For what it actually is, it\u2019s pretty good. It has a simple plot, plenty of action and lots of dopey dialogue. It never aspires to be more than that. It\u2019s a good choice for a Saturday night action movie.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (1995)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Horizons\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 86 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, language, nudity, some sexuality)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Rick Jacobson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Brendan Brodick and Rob Kerchner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John R. Graham and J. Eric Schmidt\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael Gallagher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 31, 1995 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Don \u201cThe Dragon\u201d Wilson, Cat Sassoon, Robin Curtis, Jonathan Fuller, Steve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies","category-kick-ass-actioners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bloodfist-VI-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}