White Ghost

A very mediocre attempt to mimic Rambo and Missing in action. It fails on all counts. Poor acting, weak premise and a totally unacceptable interpretation of how an elite team of special forces soldier would act in the field. They are shown to be undisciplined and sloppy-very insulting. I love action movies and they don't have to be masterpieces, but this is a real yawner. Only saving grace, I downloaded it for free.

A pretty perfunctory plot with a vet in Vietnam Steve Shepard being rescued by a special ops unit, which should be oops unit as the man chosen to lead the mission has a deadly hatred of Shepherd and wants to kill him! Cue lots of running around in the jungle, South Africa doubling convincingly for Vietnam. There is plenty of action and proper explosions which are the raison d'etre for the movie and it does that element quite well. The characters though are not memorable, apart from Reb Brown but he isn't in it much sadly. He would have been a better lead than William Katt who was not that believable as the titular White Ghost. All in all, I enjoyed it.

SPOILER WARNING this is a cheap and very violent film . I've only seen it once....and i actually own this on VHS.....and trust me, this won't be ever released on DVD......it's just awful. Imagine this as the worst Rambo imitation you'll ever see. the title character is supposed to contain the souls of all the dead u.s soldiers in the vietnam war(!)still want to know more about this??? the pentagon gives orders to kill him and all you see during the movie is blood and suffering, and that's it........ it's very unpleasant to watch this.........although i keep the copy in my video collection * out of 5

Well, Alexander, this movie has been released on DVD after all. But it is hard to understand why. It's very violent, but entertaining in some bizarre kind of way. The main character hardly says anything, but runs around in the jungle, like the white ghost he is, and kills people. On the whole there are a lot of running people in the movie: the "ghost", mercenaries, the vietnamese soldiers and it's hard sometimes to know who's who. No similarities in other respects, the movie ends with a scene quite similar to that scene in "Platoon" where Sgt. Elias gets killed and the guys sit in the helicopter watching and trying to help.

When you think about an ex-American soldier from the Vietnam war raging havoc in that country in the 1980s a la "Rambo", it is very unlikely that the first actor someone would picture in the role would be William Katt. Yet here he is in one of the biggest miscasting decisions I've seen in a movie for a long time. Seeing him act like Rambo does occasionally bring in some amusement, but that's about all the entertainment value "White Ghost" has. Although shot in Zimbabwe(!), the jungle locations are badly chosen, making the movie look like it was shot in the wilds of Florida. These locations and the actors are almost entirely shot with the cheap technique of having everything close to the camera. The action sequences are routine at best, and the story and characters we have seen in dozens of other movies before. If you come across a dusty copy in a thrift store, it's best to leave it alone and move to something else.