Editing Megaforce (section)

==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'').<ref>{{Cite news|title=MOVIE ANALYSTS BULLISH ON A SUMMERTIME SURGE: MOVIE ANALYSTS ARE PREDICTING A $UMMERTIME $URGE|author=Pollock, Dale|date=May 20, 1982|work=Los Angeles Times|page=j1}}</ref> The film holds a 6% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] from 16 reviews.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/megaforce/|title = Megaforce| publisher = [[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>

Hal Needham later described it as:

<blockquote>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 out there to look at my weapons and my vehicles and how they run, and how they handle...they were out there in the desert with me for a week watching. And, if you go back and take a look at [[Desert Storm]], there's a pretty good resemblance to my vehicles. They were pretty slick, pretty tricked out, and they had a helluva job putting those together.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ca.geocities.com/cannonballrunpitstop/halneedham.htm |title=Hal Needham |date=2007 |website=The Cannonball Run |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234706/http://ca.geocities.com/cannonballrunpitstop/halneedham.htm |archivedate=2009-10-26 }}</ref></blockquote>

Years later, [[Robert Fuller (actor)|Robert Fuller]] (who had a minor role as a pilot) admitted to being less than fond of the picture. Co-star Michael "Dallas" Beck seemed to agree, admitting that "To say the least, it's not the kind of movie you look for at the [[Academy Award|Oscars]]. On the other hand, it paid me and my new family enough to buy our first house. So I'm not about to knock it, either."

Needham later admitted that commercially the film "went right in the toilet. I thought I had the pulse of the country better than I did. I was going off Reagan's election and different things. Then the other thing is, I didn't make it high tech enough compared to the other things that were out."<ref name="hal">{{cite news|title=On the Cutting (Up) Edge: Lights, Camera, Laughter With Burt Reynolds & Hal Needham|author=Glenn Lovell|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=31 July 1983}}</ref>

Had the movie been more successful a sequel entitled ''Deeds Not Words'' was planned. Hal Needham said in an interview with ''[[Starlog]]'' that filming of the sequel was to have begun in September 1982, just months after the first movie's premiere. The sequel would have shifted to a tropical setting and was to have been filmed in the [[Virgin Islands]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.8-bitcentral.com/reviews/2600megaForce.html|title=Game review: 20th Century Fox Mega Force for Atari 2600}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stinkermadness.com/episodes/entry/podcast-episodes/prelude-to-megaforce|title = Prelude to Megaforce}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2019/09/military-sci-fi-oddities-megaforce-1982.html|title = Future War Stories: Military Sci-Fi Oddities: MEGAFORCE (1982)|date = September 21, 2019}}</ref>