Ah, there's nothing like stock footage. Short clips from other movies or documentaries put into a movie to either make it longer, or to make it look more impressive. Explosions. Airplanes. Wild animals. Jungles.

    Then there are movies that make one wonder when the stock footage will end and the real movie begin. Like certain Italian cannibal movies.

    And then we have AGENT RED. The absolute masterpiece when it comes to stock footage.

    This actioner from 2000 starring Dolph Lundgren was written and directed by Damian Lee and delivered to the production company. They had a look at the 100 minute movie and realized it was an incomprehensible mess. They had spent a couple of million dollars on this? What the hell were they going to do?

    They cut forty (yes, 40) minutes out of the movie that had to be replaced. Then they gave B-movie legend Jim Wynorski orders to fix it. So, a new writer; Steve Latshaw, wrote new scenes with Dolph which Wynorski had to shoot in three days. What they also did, was adding huge, re-edited chunks of Anthony Hickox's Dolph Lundgren flick STORM CATCHER (1999) plus lots of action sequences from the Mario Van Peebles starrer SOLO (1996)!

    So, basically 40 minutes of AGENT RED consist of stock footage and new stuff by Wynorski!

    Click the link below for the AGENT RED trailer.