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3/10
True Lies rip-off
Leofwine_draca7 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
THE SECRET AGENT CLUB is nothing more than a complete rip-off of the James Cameron movie TRUE LIES, albeit one aimed at a much younger audience. Kids are the heroes this time around, getting into an adventure when it transpires that no less than their mild-mannered father, Hulk Hogan, is a spy on the run from some dangerous criminals. Scenes are ripped off wholesale from the Cameron flick, but this is very much bottom of the barrel viewing and a good example of how Hogan's Hollywood career crashed and burned in the 1990s. The humour is juvenile, the acting weak, the plot pure hokum. Watch out for minor parts for the likes of M.C. Gainey, James Hong, Barry Bostwick and Jack Nance.
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3/10
A spy with muscles
Prismark101 December 2015
The Secret Agent Club stars Hulk Hogan as a nerdy, balding toy seller. However he really is a bewigged highly skilled secret agent working for a secret organisation.

He is also a lone parent raising a young son who is embarrassed of his dad because he acts like a klutz. He is unaware that he works as a spy with gadgets and fight skills.

Hogan steals a powerful laser gun and pretends that it is a toy but gets in trouble when the bad guys find out and kidnaps him. His son realising that his father may be more than he is letting on rounds up his friends to rescue him.

Hulk Hogan who at the height of his popularity moved to movies in the late 1980s quickly started to make progressively cheesier, lower budget and more kid friendly films who also happened to be his more fervent fan base.

This really is a film you can enjoy only with younger children who might like some Home Alone lite escapades as once Hogan is captured the kids take centre stage with pantomime villains.
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Hulk Hogan Fans Will Love This Film
Big Movie Fan5 January 2003
If you are a fan of wrestling hero Hulk Hogan, then you'll enjoy this film. If not, then you'll still enjoy this film.

Hulk Hogan plays the owner of a toyshop who is really a heroic spy for an organisation called the SHADOW organisation. Him and his son Jeremy end up battling the evil Eve played by the beautiful Lesley-Anne Down and her evil army.

Fans of Hulk Hogan films know what to expect. You won't get complex plots, you won't get five star movies but you will get a charismatic wrestling star just having some fun playing the guy who overcomes the odds and defeats the dark forces of evil. The Secret Agent Club is one of those films which you can play on a Sunday afternoon and just sit back and enjoy. I thoroughly recommend this film.
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1/10
The worst film ever
samuelfoster12329 August 2005
To enjoy this film your mother and grandmother would have to be the same person. i found this film embarrassing to watch, If i had acted in this film i would have taken my own life by now. The story itself is moronic, the script is moronic and the acting is pathetic. The characters bring a whole new meaning to the term 2D, the main bad guys lines consist almost exclusively of "grr" "arrg" and "mwahahahah" and to make sure we know that he is evil he has a metal leg which is in fact just a boot painted silver. If you watch this film you will regret it for the rest of your life, you will never be able to get back the time you spend watching this film.
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1/10
Brother
BandSAboutMovies26 April 2020
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Ray Chase is pretty much cosplaying Harry Tasker, as he's an agent so secret even his son doesn't know. When he brings home a laser gun, Eve (Lesley Anne-Downe) and her henchmen kidnap him. Now, his son must rescue his dad and avoid deception from double agents.

James Wong (Lo Pan!) and Richard Moll (nearly every 80's movie) are in the way, along with many, many, many henchpeople.

So you know what you're getting into here, director John Murlowski was also in charge of Amityville: A New Generation, Santa With Muscles, Richie Rich's Christmas Wish and Killer Contractor. It was written by Rory Johnson, who wrote another of my favorite junk movies, Prey of the Jaguar.
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10/10
An excellent kids movie
dontyouwantaballoon9 February 2015
An Oscar winner this is not, clearly. However as a kids movie this has everything you could want, a kid friendly plot complete with espionage, weapons, martial arts and hammy villains. Hulk Hogan does a decent enough job as Ray and despite what anybody else says, the kids all do a good job with the script. The occasional cheesy bits and possibly unintentional comic moments (due to cheese or cliché) don't detract and if anything, add to the fun nature of the movie.

Family fun that should not be disregarded, it makes no apologies about what it is and that is a solid kids movie that is entertaining and exciting for all ages.

Enjoy!
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6/10
The only reason I gave a decent rating is
owenthomas-883511 October 2020
Because i loved it when I was a kid, if you have very young children this one should keep them entertained for 90 minutes
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Hulk makes me laugh!
Jonathan Horner27 May 2000
Ha ha ha!! Hulk Hogan has got to be one of the worst actors ever, he's so bad he makes me laugh so much!

Hulk stars as Raymond Chase, a secret agent who is trying to keep a special "laser gun" prototype hidden from a group of bad guys who want it for no reason. The gun soon ends up in the wrong hands so Hulk and his small gang of kids set out to find it.

This movie has some really cheesey acting and scenes in it but it is a children's movie after all. Hulk Hogan tries his best to act but always ends up looking uncomfortable and clumsy in his role. Hulk should quit Hollywood and stick to wrestling!

This movie made me laugh in parts and for a children's movie, some of the stunts impressed me.

I give it 6 out of 10.
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10/10
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen
reverendtom11 December 2006
From the moment you pop in the DVD, you will be amazed. Literally. This movie has the funniest menu screen I have ever seen, what with the still frame of Hulk hulkin out, the techno music loop and the footage of the kids hiding from spies. After such an amazing introduction, the movie does not dissappoint. This has got to be one of the stupidest, most hilarious children's movies ever made. I admit that I was drunk and in good company while watching it, but I was roaring with laughter. I mean, Richard Moll (I think that's how its spelled) as an evil spy with long hair, kids getting over their heads in international intrigue, Hulk Hogan, a magic lazer gun. This film really has it all. I think it is the most hilarious film that Hulk ever made.
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7/10
While follically challenged, Hogan remains unchallenged in the bellicose, B-movie arena of ham-fisted comedy!
Weirdling_Wolf16 November 2020
Hunky He-Man, Hulk Hogan's Herculean acting talents are heroically displayed in this Hulkingly hilarious spy comedy from 1996. Hogan's hysterically hellacious hi-jinks offer a laugh-laden treat for all Hulk-maniacs, old and new; 'The Secret Agent Club' being a terrifically silly, wonderfully woolly, kid-friendly spy parody, generously over-endowed with non-stop, slapstick comedy, and mirthful multitudes of triumphantly titter-inducing bon mots from this singularly sinewy, scenery-chewing, juiced-up slap-head! The wall-to-wall, tubular radness of Hogan's golden 'The Secret Agent Club' makes it nigh on essential for your continued emotional and spiritual well-being! In these dark and doomy days of dramatic despondency, the 'unconventionally' talented, Hogan sheds his wholesome comedy light into our increasingly shadow-steeped world! While follically challenged, our handsome, homespun hero, wild man, Hogan remains wholly unchallenged in the bellicose, B-movie arena of ham-fisted comedy!
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10/10
Hulk Hogan's wardrobe malfunction
sjh-2968922 February 2020
Some funny for everyone hulk Hogan have ripped of with his trousers out in the scene when he is dressed as the Russian and is about to jump off the cliff and the start of the film
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10/10
One of best Hogan's movies
benchrsen16 January 2023
Why this movie has such low ratings makes no sense. It is only lacking in screen time of Hulk Hogan, he would need to be on screen for at least 30min more. This movie started off very well and the directing was a lot better than most other movies Hulk played in. If he would have had this kind of quality throughout his career he could have made movies equivalent and rivaling and surpassing Schwarzeneggers movies, like True Lies, Commando, Predator, Total Recall etc. Hulk deserved better and this movie proves it. It's just a shame that Hulk's great abilities were never fully utilized by hollywood, they completely missed out on him, all indicators clearly marked Hulk as the one missing big cinema super hero like Rambo, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Segal. Hulk did mention in a early 90s or late 80s interview that he would like to do a movie with Schwarzenegger. Hulk is preferable to the lying cheating Arnold on any day, has a better and much bigger physique and should have starred in a bunch of box office hits. Thank God he did get to do THUNDER IN PARADISE tv series and movies.
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Low budget cheese!
jtakagi30 June 2000
This movie is made funny by its laughable special effects and plotline, but is saved by some of the acting. Danny McCue in particular does a great job as the resourceful and friendly Bart.
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8/10
If you like guns than your going to love this movie because it,s about a gun that can turn people invisible.
husnain_051 October 2005
I did not really like the beginning of the film but I thought the middle and ending were great.The Secret agent Club is a wicked movie and I thought everyones acting was great.If it could improve it would need to improve the beginning.The secret Agent club is one of my top 10 films.Hulk Hogan was fabulous and so was Matthew McCurley and Lesley-Anne Down and everyone else. I loved the secret club house and thought it is nice to have a secret place where friends meet each other and strangers don't know.Hulk Hogan is a funny actor and he does good acting as a mysterious and secretive person and Matthew McCurley suits the same acting.
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funniest film Hogans ever done
sinbad-95 September 1999
The Hulk o maniac has exceeded his comedic limits in this film, with the unveiling of his shiny bald head to the removal of his moustache, the special effects are the poorest things i have ever seen in a movie, i expected more from Terry. He has shattered my fragile dreams of one day becoming a world class Wrestler/ actor. :(
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