Who do you call when your 737 is hijacked by terrorists on its way to Germany? Well, you could call the police. That'd be an idea. But, really, anybody can do that and all the police have on their side are guns. No, no I think that for any god fearing soul out there it would be much better to call the Pope. And the Pope? He calls Lasko ...
Heh ... while posting about German martial arts flick Guerilla's Blood earlier today I got to wondering about German martial artist Mathis Landwehr and what he's up to these days. The young fighter and stunt man was the first to put German martial arts on the map thanks to his indie feature Kampfansage and he has since gone on to work as a key stunt double on both V For Vendetta and Speed Racer but he hasn't been seen that much on screens of late, not in any recognizable form. But that's about to change. Back in 2006 Landwehr starred in a made for TV movie titled Im Auftrag des Vatikans in which he played a young, kung fu trained monk sent - apparently at the behest of the Pope himself - to intercede when a train is taken over by a terrorist group. The film is available on DVD on these shores as Death Train and features Landwehr's Lasko character duking it out with The Mummy's Arnold Vosloo on the roof of a speeding train, a train that at some point also gets shot with a rocket launcher and ends up in a head on collision with a helicopter. It's big, stupid stuff, basically, and it's proven popular enough that Landwehr's character has been given his own ongoing television series titled Lasko: The Fist Of God.
According to a sales flyer from the just-completed MIP TV the pilot - featuring the aforementioned 737 story - and an additional six episodes are already in the can. The moral, I suppose, being: Pray Hard, And If That Doesn't Work Then Just Punch The Other Guy In The Face.
You can find three ads for the original movie below the break!
Germans do pull off the crash scenes but rest is not that skillfully done.