Also known as The Blood Heroes A Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal futuristic game resembling football. Rutger Hauer plays a disgraced former star leading a rag tag group of ""Juggers"" to one of the remaining Nine Cities for glory and redemption.
Over 20 years on, I still find the hugely underrated 'Salute of the Jugger' highly enjoyable and a lot of fun to watch. Gritty and low budget but not at all low quality, the plot is not predictable and the well-shot action sequences make for tense viewing. The many deliberately unexplained things going on in the background in the post-apocalyptic world of Jugger make this movie worth watching more than once.
Rutger Hauer is perfectly cast as the veteran jugger, and Joan Chen does a solid job as the ambitious yet inexperienced Qwik who wants a better life by joining the League. I like the understated dialogue - words aren't wasted in this story.
And the soundtrack is brilliant (get the CD!).
For years I had to put up with the "cut" version of the movie on DVD, with the inexcusably abrupt and unsatisfactory ending. Now, with Optimum Home Entertainment's 99-minute version the original ending has been restored, just as in the theatrical release and VHS video. At long last!
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A post-WW3 movie starring Rutger Hauer. A group of warriors roam the desert challenging the local gladiators to a violent sports contest, using a dog's head for a ball. Gruesome at times.
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