Bullet Points: Penitentiary III
Having never seen the 1979 original and not being a huge fan of Penitentiary II (with the exception of the potato salad scene), I really did not have high hopes going into the third installment of...
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Bullet Points: Assassination
In Hollywood, if Charles Bronson liked you there was a good chance you’d get to work with him on multiple occasions. That is why men like Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam and Robert F. Lyons were frequent...
Bullet Points: American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
By the time 1991 rolled around and American Ninja 4: The Annihilation was released, Cannon Group had seen better times. The glory days of releasing dozens of films each year with the hopes that a select...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Exterminator 2
1984’s Exterminator 2 is a movie that gets lost in the Cannon shuffle. The film was released on the same day as Ninja III: The Domination and just two months prior to the release of Missing...
Bullet Points: Missing in Action
When Menahem Golan first signed up Chuck Norris to a multi-picture deal with Cannon, I can’t imagine either man knew how monumental that would be. Chuck Norris became a cornerstone and huge draw for The Cannon...
Bullet Points: Crack House
1989’s Crack House is an example of a movie that while released by Cannon, was not produced by Cannon. And that is probably why we didn’t see Charles Bronson, Michael Dudikoff or Chuck Norris waging a...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Invasion U.S.A.
As an avid collector of physical media, especially collector’s editions of Cannon classics from the 1980’s, the Shout Factory release of Invasion U.S.A. is one I inexplicably slept on. I am happy to say that Shout...
Scene of the Week: Firewalker
Chuck Norris was born on March 10, 1940 in Ryan, Oklahoma. You might think based on his reputation and skill level that Chuck Norris was doing karate moves right out of the womb… but truth be...
No Surrender Cinema: Rappin’
As we near the end of Black History Month, I’d like to put the spotlight on a movie I’ve intended to sit down and review for a while now. This month’s No Surrender Cinema is going...
Cannon’s Honorable Mentions
Bulletproof Action celebrated its four year anniversary in grand fashion this year when we presented The Ultimate Cannon Countdown! The Top 10 list, generated by compiling the opinions of the Bulletproof Action staff and some friends...
