I just caught this and I have to say, it was on spot with the Marvel comics. David Hasselhoff did a great job as Nick Fury, the only problem was not enough gray hair for a "retired" Fury. This was done when comic book movies were not take very seriously. The movie was made almost 20 years ago.The henchmen looked like they dropped out of a clone vat. There was basically two flavors; a bald man with dark glasses in a business suit or the masked soldier, with a red HYDRA arm band. The henchmen seemed a little too cartoonish.One flaw I blame on the writers is the scene where Viper poisons Nick is just too obvious a trap. It was overt and needed to be more subtle than how they did it.The special effects was much better than I expected for a late 90's made for TV show. The "Hellcarrier" design was appropriate for the time. The props and sets were well thought out. Overall a great TV show for its time.

WE RECALL FINDING this little tidbit of Marveldom accidentally. It was probably on its maiden voyage on the Open Seas of Networkdom at the time. We were and are comics people, who were brought up on the likes of Superman, Batman, Justice League, Fantastic Four, Spider-man,Dennis the Menace, Little Lulu, en ad infinitum. The Nick Fury character was quite familiar.STARTING OUT ITS 4 colour life as a World War II army strip, SGT. FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS.* It was a action above all strip that was populated by a group of non-conformist regular GIs. Their relationship reminded us very much of that which we had become familiar with in such Marvel Comics mainstays as FANTASTIC FOUR and X MEN. Not so surprisingly, SGT. FURY was the brainchild of the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby team.** BEING EVER THE opportunist, Stan Lee took the character from the U.S. Army of WWII and projected him into the world of intelligence and international intrigue. This was 1968, and the end of the great war was a mere two decades & a little change removed from then contemporary times.ALSO, JAMES BOND had firmly entrenched its franchise in our collective conciseness; along with a healthy number of pretenders to the Spy King throne. Marvel's adaptation of Nick Fury from Soldier to Super Spy was more a case of "but of course"; rather than "wow, how original!"REGARDING THE FILM with Mr. David Hasselhoff as Fury, we found it to be a pleasant surprise. It did a fine job in bringing the imagery and storyline of the comics page to the small screen. The sets were impressive, the costuming most modern and storyline satisfying. It's possible that this was meant as a sort of Pilot Film for a TV Series much like the Marvel adaptation, DR. STRANGE TV Movie. Neither one made the cut.NOW WITH THE miracle of fast forwarding through time, we find that today's Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Samuel L. Jackson)is not only Master Spy, but also the catalyst of bringing the Marvel Super Hero team of THE AVENGERS together.AS FOR THIS movie, Schultz liked it, I liked it and so did our buddies at Chicago Police HQ, Missing Persons on that premiere night.NOTE: * Quite possibly,this HOWLING COMMANDOS title was Marvel's answer to DC Comics' highly successful SGT. ROCK & Easy Company in OUR ARMY AT WAR (comic book's title).NOTE** We've long held that SGT FURY & HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS was a direct ancestor of TV's A TEAM.

I watched this today and it was a cool flick. I saw it on Encore commercial free. It was not too tongue in cheek and had some death in it, so it wasn't A-Team excrement. To me a decent balance, it probably didn't get picked up because it had hot chicks in it and some death so they couldn't target it as family fare, and as you see here on IMDb.com, fan-boys despise this movie for some reason. I think that all comes about from a few posting things to look "cool", and a mass following so they are "cool" also. I mean, commenting on a comic book movie is never going to be cool, so I don't need to worry about that. Maybe its the newer gen of younger Marvel fans, they don't know what us middle aged fans went through and why I came up with a good rating for this film. Ever grow up watching the 60's animated Marvel shows, and that was all you could see, not something you picked up on youtube for nostalgia kicks? Ever watch the Spiderman or Captain America live action stuff that Marvel put out in the 70's, again because that's all you had? This movie is LIGHT YEARS from those POS examples. The thing that kept it all going were the comic books, I would get like 20 titles a month, it was ridiculous. A lot of it was smeg like two in ones but then there was Kirby and later Miller who I picked up as stuff from the badly used bin or was lucky enough to have been a subscriber when they made their impacts. OK so anyway, it must be cool to immediately hate Hoff but then why was there so much interest in redoing Knight Rider? Hoff was good, the FX was good, the chicks were hot, people died, Hoff got some action (implied) at the end. Compared to SCi Fi superhero series that got the green light like Robocop and Black Scorpion this one would have been really cool to watch. Too bad you fan boys spoiled it. 7 of 10, good job.

**SOME SPOILERS** Having been put out to pasture in the wilds of the Yukon wilderness by S.H.I.E.L.D, an ultra super secret US espionage agency, after the fall of the Soviet Union former top agent unshaven cigar chomping and all around slob Nick Fury, David Hesselhoff, gets a surprise visit from two members of that agency Alexander Goodwin Pierce, Neil Roberts, and his former girlfriend Valentina De Contessa, now that's a mouthful, better known as Val played by Lisa Rinna.A former Nazi bigwig Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, Campbell Lane, who had almost killed Nick, causing Nick to lose his left eye, some time ago is being brought back from the dead by his two evil kids the villainous and crafty Andera Von Strucker code name Viper and her somewhat dimwitted younger brother Werner, Scott Heindl. Nick a guy who doesn't take any bull from anyone and who's motto is "Either my way or the highway" gets back into action when he finds out that Viper was responsible for the death of his close friend agent Clay Quantermain, Adrian Hughes. Nick and both Pierce and S.H.I.E.L.D mind-reading agent Kate Naville, Tracy Waterhouse, go to Berlin to get in touch with Interpol agent Gayle Runsador and get to a secret safe-house for a very important meeting. The agency's, S.H.I.E.L.D, head man Director General Pincer, Tom McBeath, want's to have Kate read the mind of former Nazi scientist Dr. Zolar's, Peter Hayworth, a top honcho of the evil Hydra group that the Von Strucker's are in control of and see just what he and his cohorts are up to in their sinister plans to take over the both civilized and uncivilized world.It later turns out that this whole scheme to get Zolar to open up his mind and talk,or think, was a plot hatched by Hydra in order to locate, with the unwitting help of S.H.I.E.L.D, and rescue him from Nick & Co. with Agent Runsador turning out to be non-other then he evil and murderous Viper. Viper then infected an unsuspecting Nick Fury by biting him in the neck with a lethal dose of South American Yellow Dart Frog venom, the most lethal poison on earth, that in less then 48 hours would end up killing him.It's a race against time as Nick and S.H.I.E.L.D try to find out just where Dr. Zola's and the Von Strucker's, or Hydra Gang, are planing to unleash this new and deadly virus called the "Death Head" that can wipe out the entire population of the United States. With Nick's chances of surviving the deadly Viper bite almost nil S.H.I.E.L.D's top scientist Gareriel Jones, Ron Canada, comes up with a possible antidote that can save Nick's life, if he get's it in time. The antidote has to be developed and drawn from the blood of the person who put Nick into this almost helpless condition in the first place, the only person on earth immune from it Viper.The movie lumbers along with a both drunk-looking and acting Nick screwing up everything that he touches and almost getting his fellow S.H.I.E.L.D agents,Pierce & Kate Neville as well as ex-girlfriend Valentina, killed due to his mindless self serving and almost suicidal behavior. Nick knows that he doesn't have long to live, or so he thought, so why should he care about anyone else, like those working with him, who do. Despite Nick's bumbling the Hydra Gang is so inept and clumsy, especially young and brainless Werner Von Strucker, that in the end he prevents them from destroying downtown Manhattan with a battery or "Death Head" virus loaded rockets. Nick does that by getting the code to abort their mission with the help of mind reading agent Neville from non-other then the evil Viper, who was captured by Nick & Co., herself and also getting a sample of her blood to save his life.The ending has Viper again escaping from Nick together with her frozen stiff and dead father the Baron and ending up on the other side of the world. As the movie finally ends we get a hint of things to come with Baron Von Stucker, now alive and kicking, and Viper threatening both the world and audience that it and those of us watching this utterly mind-boggling flick haven't seen the last of them. With some eight years after the release of the movie "Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D" we can in a way consider ourselves lucky but our luck is soon to run out. There's another Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D movie, hopefully not staring David Hesselhoff, due to be released sometime in 2007 or 2008! God Help Us All!