out a year later." Bostwick claimed the Pentagon "tried to stop the movie" by withholding 40 army tanks needed for the bigger battle sequences because the movie's strike force "was very close to covert CIA strike forces still in existence." "You know what's good about this film?" Bostwick later reflected. "It's plausible. We need an international force like this to keep the peace. I wouldn't mind betting that one day there's a real Megaforce operating somewhere in the world." The film was shot on location in Nevada. It pioneered the use of Introvision, a system that allows actors to walk in and out of photographs instead of sets. It was used to create the headquarters for the private army. "It's an absolutely phenomenal system", said the film's producer, Al Ruddy of Introvision. "There's no way you can get the quality and the speed of delivery at this cost." The cars and motorbikes were designed by William Fredrick, who worked on Hooper. He delivered them after eight months work and a cost of $1 million but they all actually worked. Hal Needham was injured during filming after falling off a motorbike, breaking several ribs and bruising himself. The film had no credited costume designer; all the clothes were designed by the toy company Mattel. Reception The film was released during the summer of 1982 amid much competition. Early box office tracking was poor and it was felt the film would be overshadowed by Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior). The film is in the list of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Cult-cinema writer David Harkin wrote, "With a back catalogue including Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run, former stuntman turned filmmaker Hal Needham allows Megaforce to have as many bike and vehicle chases as humanly possible. Although ripe for parody (if that was even necessary), Megaforce is so categorically silly, it’s hard not to enjoy the flying motorbikes, idiotic dialogue and sub-A-Team violence." Hal Needham later described it as: Kind of a version of James Bond done with a helluva lot of less budget and no Roger Moore, but it was a high tech, good "right wing" film and I thought it was kinda interesting. Those buggies that we built, they were dune buggies and we revamped 'em a little bit, and put the weapons on 'em and all that, and the military sent people