The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.
Director: Luis Llosa
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
110 min
Rating: 5.9/10
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Top Cast
Sylvester Stallone
Ray Quick
Sharon Stone
May Munro
James Woods
Ned Trent
Rod Steiger
Joe Leon
Eric Roberts
Tomas Leon
Mario Ernesto SĂĄnchez
Charlie
Movie Info
Director: Luis Llosa
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Production Companies: Jerry Weintraub Productions, Iguana Producciones, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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What Others Said
Gimly:
A bomber makes for about as heroic a protagonist as you might expect. There is no reason to put yourself through the plodding pretentiousness of _The Specialist_ unless you, like I was, are on some sort of quest to watch the entire 80s-90s Stallone filography.
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- Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
Wuchak:
_**Explosive comic book crime thriller with Stallone, Stone and Woods**_
An ex-CIA demolitions expert (Sylvester Stallone) is hired by a grim beauty in Miami (Sharon Stone) to take out the mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a girl. Rod Steiger and Eric Roberts play high society gangsters while James Woods is on hand as the specialistâs rival, who works for the mob.
"The Specialist" (1994) is a competent Stallone action flick set in Miami, albeit seriously comic booky with Woods really hamming it up; Roberts too, to a lesser degree.
Stallone was 47 during shooting and in exceptional shape. Not that I care, but he and Stone are shown totally nude in a shower scene (in a tasteful way). She looked great at 35, but this flick doesnât beat âKing Solomonâs Minesâ (1985) where Sharonâs shorts kept getting shorter as the story progressed. Her character in that film wasnât ultra-bitter as she is in this one; she was all-around vibrant.
Itâs kind of glaring, but the movie borrowed music from the 80âs Bond films; obviously the producers wanted that vibe. While it lacks the globetrotting of 007, itâs basically a mix of 80âs Bond and âThe Punisherâ (1989).
The film runs 1 hour, 50 minutes and was shot in the Miami area, Florida, with the opening done at Great Falls Dam, Rock Island, Tennessee.
GRADE: B-/C+
JPV852:
Decent action can't overcome thin characters plus Stallone and Stone didn't have much chemistry together. At the very least James Woods, once again, goes over-the-top as the villain so he was entertaining. **2.75/5**