I've never been a big fan of the character of Nick Fury-that is, to say, I've never been a fan of him until the Ultimates series came out and Nick Fury went from a generic gruff white old dude in white gloves and a white belt to a bad-ass drawn to look like Samuel L. Jackson. Old Nick Fury always seemed pointless to me and overdone in such a way I almost always expected the writer of the comics he was in to suddenly materialize in the panel and say, "Get it? He's a no non-sense leader from New York. He's got a tough exterior, shoots out obvious quips and LOOK AT THE STUBBLE ON HIS FACE AND CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! He has to be tough-just ignore the white belt." And yes, writer, I got it. Fury was the tough, "I don't do things by the book" boss who makes his own rules...but that doesn't make him interesting.

Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a made-for-TV movie that aired on Fox in 1998 and, due to the fact it looked like utter slime and I didn't think Fury was an interesting character enough to warrant a movie (and due also to the fact the driver of KITT was in it), I never actually watched this until recently. If you follow my blog and my reviews, you may have noticed I've been on a kick of really terrible Marvel movies lately (and they made a lot of them-many of which are on Batman & Robin level of crap)-I've watched Captain America and his surfer incarnation from the 70s, a Dr. Strange film that eliminated all the cool things about Strange and replaced them with a main star who looks like he was too high on drugs to know what he was doing and possibly came wandering on set from his porno shoot next door and The Punisher movie that had Dolph Lundgren being Dolph Lundgren if Dolph Lundgren was The Punisher and not Frank Castle. Well, since I've been on this kick, I decided to check out the David Hasselhoff-containing Nick Fury film that I passed all those years ago.

After the infamous terrorist organization HYDRA gets their hands on a deadly virus and threatens to use it on the city of New York, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Col. Nick Fury is brought out of retirement to try and stop them. I wish there was more to the film than that but, realistically, that sums up the entire movie.

You can read my entire review at..

http://revronmovies.blogspot.com/2013/05/nick-fury-agent-of-shield.html