July 21-27 Eddie Griffin Week: This motherfucker is funny!

Blast is filled with people who seemingly should be doing better.

Like Vinnie Jones, who plays terrorist Michael Kittredge, who is posing as a protester of an oil rig to get his mercenaries onto it and detonate a dirty bomb.

Or Vivica A. Fox, who is FBI Agent Reed, who recruits our hero.

Or that hero, Eddie Griffin, who should be a much bigger star and not in Die Hard on an oil platform as a tugboat captain with an adopted white kid who sounds like a dubbed Italian child. Yes, all the ADR was done way after the movie and none of the actual people did no their voices.

Tiny Lister? You’re Zeus. You shouldn’t be in this.

Nor should Shaggy. It wasn’t me, Shaggy.

Maybe Breckin Meyer should be in this. No, come on, be nice. He deserves some kindness.

Shockingly, this was directed by Anthony Hickox, who had previously made Waxwork, and written by Steven E. de Souza and Horst Freund. Yes, the same de Souza who wrote…Die Hard.

Just like an Italian movie, this takes scenes from Top Gun for the jets, to the point that you can see Maverick’s name on the side of the vehicle. It also takes footage from Backdraft.

Thanks to Matty from the most magical site of all time, The Schlock Pit, I can report that this movie was a remake of the German TV movie Operation Noah. That’s where the Horst Freund credit is from.

You can watch this on Tubi.