The Human Tornado (1976)

the audience applauded

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

A must for any film buff of any era. How can you ignore Ernie Hudson's motion picture debut. Rudy Ray Moore, did so much, with so little. Some studio needs to put him to work again.The film is great, Jimmy Lynch is amazing. Lady Reed is wonderful. Rudy is at his best. Bring in Howard Jackson was a great move to see real, authentic martial arts.Far ahead of its time.

Here we have another movie by the (depending on your opinion) genius or deleriously incompetent tour de force who is Rudy Ray Moore, more well-known for his unsubtly titled riebald "party records" such as "Eat out more often" and "The Cockpit".Here, Rudy Ray Moore goes well beyond the call of duty as he ineffectively attempts to weave a plot based around the loss of Queen Bee's nightclub. But forget plot, did you _really_ rent this expecting something cerebral? It's full of everything you want in a movie.The first 10 minutes of this movie is sheer genius. Absurd "special effects", uproarously bad dialogue, Moore's trademark "kung-fu", and carnivalesque blacksploitation stereotypes set the tone. Yet, the entire film, as far as pure camp goes, is a comedic goldmine as well. In true style, Moore is actually serious about his movies, despite the overacting, bad special effects, and a confusing script. All of this leads to some jaw-droppingly ridiculous scenes which are cliche as they are hilarious.If I have to voice one complaint, it would be: Why is it that Rudy insists on inserting these prolonged spoken word pieces in every one of his movies? This is the only place in the movie where I was tempted to reach for my remote... We can only assume that the reason why he is torturing us is that he was attempting to extend his street cred (he often claims to have invented rap, as well as raucous comedy LPs, among other things)."The Human Tornado" emerges as a much better film somehow than "Monkey Hustle" (which, dissapointingly, featured no monkies) and the almost incomprehensible "Petey Wheatstraw". Personally I like it much better than even the original Dolomite, although at times "Avenging Disco Godfather" does give it a run for its money for raw psychedalic effects (the ending sequence of his aunt looking like she's straight out of an evil dead movie). Features a young Ernie Hudson, however no other big names such as antonio fargas or pam grier pop up.Essentially, Rudy Ray Moore thinks he's all that. You'll either agree, or be so amazed that he exists that you can't stop laughing. Or both.

I've seen Dolemite and Disco Godfather as well as Human Tornado...I'm something of a Rudy fan. I must say, however, that Human Tornado is the most competant Rudy Ray Moore movie I have seen (admittedly I have not seen Petey Wheatstraw or Monkey Hustle). The direction, camera work, and acting, while still substandard is no where near as atrocious as in Dolemite or Godfather. The story is simple and routine, but the dialogue and rapping is high-larious. My favorite scene for all out ridiculousness was when Rudy and "Miss Wonderful" get naked and....excercise in bed. Literally. I must say, however, if you're looking for the highlarious incompetency of Godfather, it won't be found here.