Bulletproof is a 1988 American action film directed by Steve Carver and starring Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Thalmus Rasulala, L. Q. Jones.

Busey plays a reckless cop who travels to Mexico to retrieve a tank prototype hijacked by a terror group representing an alliance of anti-American powers.

McBain has earned the nickname "Bulletproof" due to his uncanny ability to survive bullet wounds, and keeps all thirty-nine projectiles that have failed to kill him as mementos in a mason jar.

Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence has learned of the existence of a secret camp located just 300 miles south of the Mexican border, which trains various Latin American communists and Arabic insurgents, all united under the banner of the anti-American People's Liberation Army.

Looking for a diplomatic justification to wipe out the camp, top army generals decide to convoy a new and virtually bulletproof tank prototype, the MBT-90 (codename "Thunderblast"), past the Mexican border and into PLA territory to entice its hijack by the militants.

A patrol of revolutionaries headed by young Captain Pantaro duly stops the convoy, but they prove more radicalized than expected: most U.S. military personnel are swiftly killed while a few survivors, including Shepard and her friend Sergeant O'Rourke, get kidnapped and taken to the PLA camp along with the MBT-90.

There, Shepard gets acquainted with two men in charge, PLA general Maximiliano Brogado and his cruel Libyan advisor Colonel Kartiff, who shows a strong distaste for the emancipation afforded to American women like her.

[2] According to Ray's biography, the character moment where Busey pulls a bullet from his shoulder was expanded with material excised from the equivalent scene in Deep Space, which was abridged at the request of producer Moshe Diamant due to his distaste for graphic gunshot wounds.

[9] Actor René Enriquez was given the green light to participate by the producers of his regular show Hill Street Blues, and was scheduled to start filming his part on Bulletproof on January 6, 1987.

Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times panned the film, writing that "only the opening scene has any life" and that "[i]t’s a genuine shame to watch Busey—one of the most vital character actors of the ‘70s, wasting himself in a cliche-ridden stinker like this".

"[22] Frazier Moore of The Atlanta Constitution compared it to the then-latest installment of the Rambo franchise and wrote: "Gary's film is not better or worse than Sly's, only terrible, but quality may not matter to you.