The Specialist (1994)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Luis Llosa
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger
Synopsis:
CIA explosives experts fall out over a botched job when one blows the whistle on them both. Years later they clash again when a woman demands vengeance on the mob for her murdered parents.
Review:
One of those 'Let's see what you can do/That's my boy' scenarios which the star made his own with Rambo, with Woods hating but secretly admiring Stallone for his technique while deploring the amateurism of those around him. The unpardonable sin committed by this film is that we only ever see results, hardly ever the setting of the devices, so suspense is lost; but it is more interested in fetishising the physiques of its stars, the similarity of whose surnames was all but paraded as a marketing gimmick. Woods enjoys himself in a familiar role, John Barry delivers recycled but proficient musical backing, and the explosions are so handsome as to be practically benign.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Luis Llosa
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger
Synopsis:
CIA explosives experts fall out over a botched job when one blows the whistle on them both. Years later they clash again when a woman demands vengeance on the mob for her murdered parents.
Review:
One of those 'Let's see what you can do/That's my boy' scenarios which the star made his own with Rambo, with Woods hating but secretly admiring Stallone for his technique while deploring the amateurism of those around him. The unpardonable sin committed by this film is that we only ever see results, hardly ever the setting of the devices, so suspense is lost; but it is more interested in fetishising the physiques of its stars, the similarity of whose surnames was all but paraded as a marketing gimmick. Woods enjoys himself in a familiar role, John Barry delivers recycled but proficient musical backing, and the explosions are so handsome as to be practically benign.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Luis Llosa
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger
Synopsis:
CIA explosives experts fall out over a botched job when one blows the whistle on them both. Years later they clash again when a woman demands vengeance on the mob for her murdered parents.
Review:
One of those 'Let's see what you can do/That's my boy' scenarios which the star made his own with Rambo, with Woods hating but secretly admiring Stallone for his technique while deploring the amateurism of those around him. The unpardonable sin committed by this film is that we only ever see results, hardly ever the setting of the devices, so suspense is lost; but it is more interested in fetishising the physiques of its stars, the similarity of whose surnames was all but paraded as a marketing gimmick. Woods enjoys himself in a familiar role, John Barry delivers recycled but proficient musical backing, and the explosions are so handsome as to be practically benign.