It's good to see a good old fashioned revenge flick nesting nicely in the 1987 vaults of outrageous, especially when that one features a giant monster truck running down Ned Beatty with a pompadour. Rolling Vengeance is just that special flick that many have been waiting for even if they didn't know it. The basic revenge scheme is typical for the genre, though at no point did had the hero gone and built something as ridiculous as this 'armored barn on wheels' before this. And boy howdy -- when this gigantic sucker starts-a-rollin' to the sweet '80s guitar licking soundtrack, that's when the movie's motor gets-a-movin'. Actually, the whole thing is quite tasty in a perfect cheese ball fashion, thanks to a heap load of hick dialogue, most of which is spat out by none other than Beatty himself. Looking like a grown up greaser reject, Beatty's bad guy is a hoot from beginning till end. And what would Rolling Vengeance be without those musical montages, best of which has got to be the homoerotic "Coming Up On You This Time" song that accompanies lead actor Don Michael Paul's laborious creation of his rolling death machine. Simply fantastic as a relic of ridiculous cinema that could have only been made in the decade that it was released unto, Rolling Vengeance is just what the cornball cinephiles of the world ordered.
