George Erschbamer's Snake Eater features one of the most unintentionally incompetent action heroes that I have every encountered. I say that he is "unintentionally" incompetent because the film plays his exploits entirely straight. If you are having trouble understanding what I mean, let me relate to you a scene near the end that perfectly illustrates my point. After an intense 80s "suiting up for battle" montage, Jack "Soldier" Kelly, an ex-member of the Marine Special Forces "Snake Eater" team, assaults the home of a group of hillbillies who murdered his parents and kidnapped his sister. As he approaches the shed where one of the hillbillies is about to slit his sister's throat, he steps on a bear-trap. He is immediately incapacitated by pain and falls to the ground, alerting his presence to the hillbillies. His trapped sister then springs into action, freeing herself and killing the hillbilly while Kelly stupidly looks on. Now, keep in mind, this isn't a comedic scene. The film still treats Kelly like a bad-ass action hero. This isn't a one-time fluke, either. Before that, he was defeated in a fist-fight by unarmed yokels, fell victim to a "log trap" on a river, and was repeatedly outsmarted and/or captured by the hillbillies. The bear-trap scene wasn't even the first time in the film that Kelly had been saved from certain death by an inexperienced female character who had managed to free herself from the same predicament that he was in before he could. I hear that this film has two sequels. I must seek these films out and see if Kelly manages to maintain his crown as the most inept action hero in history.
5/10
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