6.4 /10 1 Votes
94% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Cirio H. Santiago Music by Ed Gatchalian Production
companies HCI International Director Cirio H. Santiago Produced by Cirio H. Santiago Cast Steve Sandor | 4.3/10 IMDb 5.6/10 Letterboxd Screenplay by Howard R. Cohen Edited by Bas Santos Initial release 1983 Story by Cirio H. Santiago Cinematography Ricardo Remias | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Steve Sandor
Andrea Savio
William Ostrander Similar The New Barbarians, Ultra Warrior, Dead End Drive‑In, Steel Dawn, Bounty Killer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stryker trailer
Stryker is a 1983 Philippine action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. The film is set in the future where after a nuclear holocaust, survivors battle each other over the remaining water in the world.
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Plot
After nuclear war has defoliated the Earth, survivors lives in colonies in a quest for water. A young woman named Delha is on the run from the evil Kardis henchman. She is rescued by Stryker and his young companion Bandit. She later finds herself trapped again by Kardis and resists torture to reveal where the location of her colony.
Meanwhile, Stryker and Bandit ambush a Kardis water tanker and drive in his fortress and manages to escape with Delha. Delha reveals that she has been trying to contact Trun, Stryker's estranged brother to assist in the defence against Kardis. Trun has been captured and buried by Kardis' men, but is rescued by Stryker. Trun has his lieutenant Bazil to gather his army, but Bazil betrays them leading Kardis to attack the colony.
Stryker is then captured and tortured, but is rescued by a group of dwarves whom he had previously given water too. After a final climatic battle, Trun's battalion defeats Kardis' army with help of Stryker and the dwarves.
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin gave the film a negative review, describing the film as "Workaday, predictable, edited to the bone, Stryker is very much a New World yarn. It cruises on automatic pilot from the first frame to the last." Variety described the film as a "Grade-D imitation of "The Road Warrior." "Stryker" offers little for today's action audience." The review described the Cohen's script as Howard R. Cohen's script as "insane" and leading man Steve Sandor as "ugly", and a "combination imitation of Indiana Jones and Mad Max" and that director Santiago's shots "rarely match, making for sloppy editing and enervating tedium." In Phil Hardy's book Science Fiction (1984), a review compared to other Mad Max derivatives, noting it was "even more ridiculous than its Italian competitor I Nuovi Barbari (1983)." and lamented that director Santiago "used to turn out at least halfway decent movies for Roger Corman's New World from his Filipino base including Fly Me, Savage! (both 1973), TNT Jackson (1975) and the like."
