I feel almost sac-religious saying that.
pros: Charles Bronson,
Michael Winner (dir.)
uh...
yep, that's about it.
save yourself the what felt like 3 hours and go watch 'Death Wish'.
it had a cool premise. it was just executed all wrong. I guess the writing is what i had the biggest problem with. I guess this is one of those movies that passes because we can see it for what it could be.
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Great movie. The only glaring flaw was the suicidal girl was a terrible actress. That one cost them 2 points in my book otherwise it would have gotten an excellent score. Bronson was excellent and ole Jan Michael wasn't bad. A great twist ending that proved he never entirely let his guard down. People judge it by all the films that came after and not the films that came before it. If you saw it at the time you would have been blown away. It's like the Valachi Papers getting busted because it had the misfortune of being shot at the same time as The Godfather. It was considered a rip off even though it was released in France months before The Godfather premiered. Also The Valachi Papers was a true story.
shareThe 45 minute mark was roughly were it got more interesting and amp'd up.
share2hrs of crap. a lesson in bad chemistry?
shareI watched this last night.
8/10.
I agree this movie sucked.... for a Charley movie this has to be his worst. He has made plenty of awesome fliks with his hard image, but this just fails in so many ways!
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SPOILER* The beginning was definitely slow, which is daring, because the first 5mins of any film should be captivating, but the first two hits were totally confusing, and we don't really find out the relationship with Bronson killing JMV father. But the movie picked up speed quickly, and really sucked me in, I loved it.
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