Rocket Hunter (2020) User Reviews

Crime Against Humanity

[enopola · 1/10 · 17 February 2020]

This movie would be considered cruel and unusual punishment if anyone was ever forced to watch it.

The actors are so bad I can only assumed they paid to be in the film. It was like a fourth grader reading cue cards, confused by the cameras. The story-line was incredibly basic yet at the same time so troubling to try in follow. Like a Make-a-Wish kid just wanted to see his cruel crayon drawing come to life. I believe all the special effects were also handled by this child.

Beyond everything else that stood out, the camera angles really sealed the deal. It was like they could only film one angle at a time, so they filled each actor at a time, then tried to splice the film back together. It has some of the most un-organic dialog to ever be featured in a movie.

The fact that they sell this movie for nearly ten dollars is unbelievable.

Awful

[bobsaero-1 · 1/10 · 10 February 2020]

As a War Film, it is painful to watch.A flying B-17 with the sound track of a Cessna? All flying scenes appear to be those of a first time RC operator. Major continuity problems when two man B-17 crew bail out and unexplainedly shows up in Britain. German Train Engineer has a radio and talks in English with B-17 Crew? A better Title might have been. "It Gets Worse". The Script is hard to follow until you accept the pointlessness of trying.

Dreadful film

[majones-93188 · 1/10 · 8 February 2020]

Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. The special effects department must have had a budget of around £2, and the acting is just awful. I've seen puppet shows with better acting.

Doesn't Even Deserve One Star

[davidplummer-77059 · 1/10 · 15 February 2020]

To be honest I don't know where to begin. My cocker spaniel could have produced and acted better. I love war films and the history of the v2, s. This film has mentally scarred me.

The special effects are to be honest worse than appalling. Radio control planes, low flying b17, s talking to a German train driver.

I got about 25 minutes in and that was enough. Why make it at all if its this bad? .

About as much artistic directing talent as a collection of colour blind hedgehogs in a bag.

25 minutes of my life I will never get back. Sounds good but don't bother.

The Village Amateur Dramatics Society rents a video camera, to make a movie.

[Bob_Harris_UK · 1/10 · 8 February 2020]

This has to be the worst 'movie' that I've ever seen, and if that's what the people who made this 'movie' were hoping to achieve, then they have succeeded beyond all expectations.

Where do I begin? From start to finish, the acting was less than the village amateur dramatic society would have reached on a bad day. The 'effects' were cringe worthy at best. The script was appalling. I could go on, but I've lost the will.

Let's look at a major aspect of the 'story' line: the aircraft. All aircraft in this 'movie' are radio-controlled models. No attempt was made to disguise this in any way whatsoever.

The 'German' train/locomotive is nothing less than an obviously American steam loco, and still shows it's American 481 insignia. Later in the movie, a child's toy train set is used to show the train crashing an exploding.

Amazingly, for WW2, the 'German' locomotive engineer/driver is able to make instant radio contact with an American Bomber aircraft, asking him not to bomb the train.

During a discussion, a German SS officer describes distance in Kilo's instead of Kilometres. So he actually describing weight instead of distance. Stupidly written dialogue. The same can be said of a German officer using the phrase, "Turn-on-a-dime", which no German would have ever used. All aircraft cockpit views are just a few badly riveted metal frames, and are no better than a cardboard box. A British pub/bar is nothing more than a few planks of wood, nailed together, as are some of the German Rocket Factory offices.

During an 'Air Raid", German guards can be seen rushing out and randomly shooting at absolutely nothing. In a London home, there's a telephone on the side that doesn't ring, but the 'British' guy picks up the phone anyway and answers it with "Hello"

The list could go on and on, but the bottom line is, this is one terrible movie, and probably doesn't even rate worthy of a Rotten Tomato Award.

What IS this?

[blee1940 · 1/10 · 18 February 2020]

A dreadful production. I've seen better work from middle school students.

Not even bad enough to laugh at

[helldesk666 · 1/10 · 21 February 2020]

Some movies are so bad that you actually enjoy them, laughing at the silliness, preferably with some alcohol involved, and friends.

This isn't one of them.

It's more of an insult. The wooden dialogues, the cardboard settings (did I actually see some of the 'actors' glancing sideways to read their lines??).

The "special effects", well let's not go there.

If my 12 year old cousin (I don't have one, but bear with me) would present me with this film, I would be very impressed. And I would wish him well in his future as a potential director/screen writer.

But this actually got made and released, and that's quite an insult to the year 2020. And to movie viewers.

What is going on?

[seanbarnard-28778 · 1/10 · 2 March 2020]

If you're into remote control planes and model railways then you'll love the action scenes. If it was correctly labelled as a comedy I would have given it 2/10

Terrible movie both inside and out.

[JagdtigerIV · 1/10 · 1 March 2020]

Found this movie at Walmart for cheap and decided to give it a chance. Bad idea. First, the box cover; the image on the back of the DVD case is a Bf-108, a period-accurate trainer, though clearly not an Bf-109 fighter. Not only that, the image of Bf-108 has tracer fire emerging from underneath the fuselage from weapons that don't exist in the image. The biggest laugh came with two of the other aircraft in the same image, one is an American AT-6 trainer dressed as a Japanese Zero fighter. The other aircraft is clearly a Japanese B5N 'Kate' torpedo-bomber with a torpedo slung underneath. Keep in mind, this is suppose to be January 1945, Germany we're in!

The movie itself;

I could only watch ten minutes of it before turning it off. The production value is poor. The aircraft on screen are radio-controlled aircraft kept at a distance. The acting is stilted. Line deliveries are poor with no real attempt at accents. What frustrated me was the set design. It was clearly done on the cheap. The 'cockpit of the B-17' is just a black cutout. If you look behind the pilots, you can see where the facade ends.

From what I understand of the story, the Germans are moving a train loaded with materiel for their rocket-powered Komet and jet-powered Me-262 facilities. Intel has intercepted where the train is going to be at a point in time and want the train destroyed with precision bombing. So they send a lumbering B-17 bomber with just two crew-members, only one is an actual pilot, a fighter pilot in a P-38 squadron. The other is his brother, a trail gunner in another bomber squadron. And both decide to go on this mission together because-reasons. Why not send P-38s or other fighter-bombers to go after this target? Well, the squadron is out on another mission.

Then ask another fighter-squadron if they can do it! Why send a single B-17 into Germany with no fighter support and only two crew members? This may be January 1945, but Germany is still putting up fierce resistance.

That's where I ended it. I couldn't go any further. If they're not going to put forth the effort, why should I?

My first and probably last review

[boitanko · 7 February 2020]

Never have done a review but after watching this I had to. THIS IS NOT A MOVIE THIS IS A JOKE!

Why was this film ever made? Simply awful in every way

[gabrielaschlott · 1/10 · 6 March 2020]

This was a painful film to watch, but not in a good way. From the very begining, it was a cringe-athon. The cringe meter was locked on high througout. I think that my 7 year old son could have written a better and more believable script, and then gone on to film it with some of his class mates.

This is the only film that I have watched, where I can honestly say absolutely nothing positive about it.

Frankly, the film is an insult to the war veterans on both sides of the conflic.

Beat Movie Ever Made About the Greatest Generation

[aeroriddle · 9/10 · 17 May 2020]

Best Movie Ever Made!

This is a compelling drama of a man, who works for FedEx, and is the sole survivor of a cargo flight crash in the South Pacific. With his only friend, Wilson, a volleyball salvaged from the debris, our hero fights to survive both physically and mentally.

Oops... sorry.

Two best friends growing up poor in the wrong part of Boston, dream of different futures. One of these friends is purely brilliant, but reluctant and ashamed for his blue color friends to know. Working as a janitor in, what we assume is MIT, he solves unsolvable equations. Leaving the answers on the blackboards and not sticking around to own up to his accomplishments, he continues to seek what he doesn't know he wants.

What? Wrong movie? What do you mean? I thought we were doing Good Wil... no?

Sorry: Rocket Man... errrr Hunter. A village idiot from the glorious nation of Kazakhstan is given a Panasonic VHS camcorder and $11 to make a war movie. This is his story.

Don't Waste Your Time

[Resourcewiz1 · 1/10 · 3 February 2020]

Very poor production. The acting, story, special effects and every other aspect of this movie looks like it was made by a kindergarten class. The actors read their lines with no emotion. If you like a movie with robot-like actors reading their lines with the emotional capacity of a corpse, then this is the movie for you.

Don't be fool by trailers or poster ad

[zeusjuice-12894 · 1/10 · 21 February 2020]

I'm sorry but it's probably the worse film ever. From ridiculous special effects to horrible acting. Poor script and cinematography. Everything is so wrong.. Don't waste your time.. Not worth even 1 star.

$83

[veryangrychair · 1/10 · 16 August 2020]

The $83 budget according to the specifics must be true.

If you thought Disaster Movie was bad, then brace yourself for Rocket Hunter. It will amaze you in all the bad ways.

Arrrrgggooooa it makes my face hurt.

[uhtiman · 1/10 · 23 May 2020]

When I was in college we were given group assignments to give presentations on major historical events during reconstruction. For some reason, one group thought it would be a great idea to do a skit which they wrote the script for right outside the classroom in front of God and everybody on the day it was due. As bad as that was, it was Oscar material compared to this giant bag farts.

Worst film ever

[micloudnetza · 1/10 · 7 May 2020]

I stopped 15 minute into the movie to check what people were saying about it... i have never ever reviewed a movie but I went through the registration process just to be able to review this one, what a waste.

This is outstanding

[spinalremains80 · 1/10 · 12 August 2020]

I bet somebody's nan is really proud of this masterpiece! I was trapped in one of those timeshare demos for free breakfast and it was more exciting...

My WW2 Vet Grandfather Cringed

[chefcrammsey · 1/10 · 6 April 2020]

The title says it all. Honestly one of the worst WW2 films ever made. My grandfather constantly was commenting on not just the acting, but the "factual" side of things with the accuracy of the film.

Yes, it stinks on ice. Watch it anyway to see what went soooo wrong.

[tfc · 2/10 · 13 September 2020]

I will not go into how bad and amateurish Rocket Hunter (RH) is because others have covered that sufficiently. The only redeeming values out of RH is the smattering of history used and being a poster child for the need for film schools. I watch a lot of films and RH made me think over and over, "what did they just do wrong and why?" There are so many good films that we watch and because there are no potholes, we do not notice what they done right. RH shows their are standards we take for granted until they are missing. Kind of like watching a third grade concert sawing violins in half and you are a musician. I would use RH as an example in a film class or as a punishment for captive audiences.

The worst film I've ever seen

[paulperkin · 3 May 2020]

Wooden actors look like they are reading the script for the first time. Special effects looked like a 1st generation Nintendo game. The props were terrible. And who was driving the train? It was an American 19th century train in wartime Europe, no fireman & just the driver with a radio! Come on it was so bad, you had to watch more to see if any of it was any good.

I watch the movie for 3 minutes and decide to give up

[leesslee · 10/10 · 2 July 2020]

I watch the movie for 3 minutes and decide to give up I give it a rating of 10 star for its eloquence in forwarning the audience off wasting any more time.

Lest We Forget...

[pozharnik-47514 · 1/10 · 19 June 2021]

Never in the field of cinematic conflict have so many been nauseated by so few.

Mehdi alirezaei

[mehdialirezaei-02648 · 1/10 · 29 August 2020]

Bad film this so bad and bad actores and bad director bad whirter

pants

[jamie-68078 · 1/10 · 8 March 2020]

Worst film ever its a joke i mean seriously this film was made on someones iphone.