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A mob enforcer with no legs who enacts his vengeance from a wheelchair with shotguns for armrests. He also kung-fu fights a dude.
Other than that there's a whole lot going on. Surfing a sea of great facial hair there's framed murders, drug running, slo-mo, underwater pool wrestling, and a racist barfight.
Highly recommend for fans of Andrew V. McLaglen's Mitchell, Jim Van Bebber's Deadbeat at Dawn, and Andrew Jordan's Things.
A marvelous trashterpiece.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/08/23
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This outrageous premise makes for a grindhouse cult classic. Clearly, Robert Rodriguez must have been inspired for Planet Terror. The audacity to have our main character be a hit man in a wheelchair without legs is one thing. To see him do Kung Fu in slow motion is nuts. A couple highlights include a man with a broad sword versus a corvette; and the epic car chase in the end, that has actually nothing to do with mr. no legs. It might seem like a pedestrian detective movie in parts but the ridiculous premise makes for a highly original late 70's movie.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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This film so needs a remake it would be awesome.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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The actor was a Vietnam Vet who became a black belt in martial arts. In this film he's a mob hitman. Not only does he have a black belt his wheelchair has weapons that would make James Bond smile.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/12/23
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Great title character, and some good fight scenes. I thought the car chase at the end was too long.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/19/23
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Ricou Browning created the TV series "Flipper," directed the obscure underwater Tony Randall film [i]Hello Down There[/i] and played the Creature from the Black Lagoon in all three of Universal's [i]Creature[/i] films of the '50s. It's an odd, interesting film career, and one that would be of note even if his sole non-liquid film credit didn't involve a double amputee black belt who works as a mobster and has shooting stars on the wheels of his wheelchair.
Yes, it's [i]The Amazing Mr. No Legs[/i], a legendarily odd piece of grindhouse drivel starring the legless Todd Vorlath, a former karate champ, as Lou, a mob enforcer with a heart of pure granite. One of Lou's henchmen accidentally kills his girlfriend and Lou is forced to play clean-up, offing the hench and hiding the bodies.
Unfortunately for Lou, the girl's brother Andy is a cop, and he and his partner Chuck (Richard Jaeckel!) are trying to track the killer after they figure out that she didn't die of a drug overdose. Cop procedural stuff, idiotic dialogue, unbelievably bad acting and hopelessly inane action sequences follow.
But what hopelessly inane action sequences they are! Besides the aforementioned shooting stars, Lou also has a pair of rifles and several blades on hand, and he's not afraid to use them. He even swims and, in the best sequence, does amputee kung-fu, kicking the good guys with his stumps! An insane bar fight is another highlight, involving a drag queen, a catfight straight out of a women-in-prison movie and bottles being smashed and used as threatening weapons.
There's plenty of highlights, but much of the film is stuck with the two partners, as they go through the menial tasks of tracking the mobsters through a typically grimy, crime-ridden '70s neighborhood. If you wait around long enough, however, you'll be rewarded for some great lowbrow thrills, [i]including[/i] a climactic car chase sequence that goes on for quite a bit--even after the title character has been killed!
The film seems to have been done on a budget of about ten bucks, but Browning has managed to get some good stuntpeople (I'm assuming these are the "Danger Angels" referenced in the credits) and a "name" cast, including John Agar as the police chief and Rance Howard as one of Andy's henchmen. (His son Ron had started directing by this point, so he probably did it as a favor.)
Sure, [i]Mr. No Legs[/i] has slow moments, but it's still a pretty great piece of cripplesploitation, and would make a nifty double feature with the similarly dingy mob flick [i]The Executioner[/i]. If you get a chance to see it, pop it in, kick back, grab a 40 oz. beer and pretend you're watching it at a 42nd Street Theater circa 1981. You might even want to invite friends over so they can mug and/or molest you, just to get the complete feel.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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