This Seller is GREAT
Added 9/22/2009
I received the item I ordered in fantastic condition, right away, and am VERY happy with my order. I will absolutely be ordering again.
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Over-The-Top-But Very Entertaining
Added 5/28/2009
I enjoy a good revenge movie as well as the next guy, but, holy smokes, this crosses the line a little bit with the glorification of it...at least with the ending (which I won't give away but involves Sharon Stone's character).
Whatever, the film features an entertaining tale of a revenge-obsessed woman (Stone) who hires Sylvester Stallon (The Specialist, a term for his bomb-making talents) to kill all the people responsible for her parents' murder years earlier.
The villains are over-the-top, to say the least. One almost has to laugh out loud at one of them: James Woods. Few people have been better at playing despicable villains than Woods, and in this film he plays that role to the hilt. He also rattles off the best line in the movie when he tells some tourist to "get a new shirt, too."
Some of the bombing scenes are quite memorable, such as a chunk of a condo building falling into the ocean.
If revenge is to your liking, this is your cup of tea - a big cup!
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Stallone Can Make Anything Bad
Added 1/17/2008
This movie should be better than what it is. You have Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts and James Woods. These are three very good actors. You have Sharon Stone looking incredibly hot and at her peak of sexiness. And then you have... STALLONE. This peice of wood is the only person I know that can make a nude sex scene with Sharon Stone boring. He is so gassed up and that his lack of body fat has his face looking like a skeleton. The guy is a horrible actor. He was good in the first Rocky and man... he sucks in everything he is in (and don't tell me about Copland. He was horrible in that too).
Watch Basic Instinct, Star 80, Pope of Greenwhich Village, or Runaway Train, Salvador and The Pawnbroker or Capone. This movie is just really bad. Why? Two words... STA LLONE.
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What I wouldnt give to have been Sharon Stone!
Added 7/17/2007
As a woman, I find it hilarious how often Stallone is panned by fellow men. I have to wonder why?? Personally, I like his style and he's very VERY easy on the eyes as well. I read that Stone had a crush on Stallone and was anxious to work with him. (another beautiful actress, Madeline Stowe, said the same thing about her screen time with him). Perhaps some folks think that by trashing Stallone's acting, they can somehow feel superior? Trust me, it aint working. The man is hawt, the chemistry sizzles, and you get one guess who I fantasize about...the action scenes are good too, but I expect that in a Stallone film.
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Unexceptional Thriller
Added 3/23/2007
The much-anticipated teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone in 1994's "The Specialist" features a pulpy revenge storyline, plenty of explosions, and the two leads in a steamy shower scene, but never achieves any real momentum.
Stallone is a former special operations type turned contract hitman, who specializes in very small, very precise, and very lethal explosive devices. His current employer is Sharon Stone, out for revenge against the Miami mob family who murdered her father and by turns emotionally raw and duplicitiously smooth. Rod Stieger and Eric Roberts play the Mob family leader and his greedy son.
The movie is stolen by James Woods as Stallone's former special operations boss, now working for the mob on the side. His over-the-top vendetta against Stallone for a career-killing incident in Central America is much more entertaining than Stallone's rather wooden relationship with the Sharon Stone character. The movie features plenty of action sequences, as Stallone races to complete his assignment for his new and very possibly untruthworthy love interest before Woods can track down and kill his former pupil.
This movie is a moderately entertaining action thriller, if light on content and real movie chemistry.
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Recommended!
Added 5/22/2009
Even if you don't like any of the actors: they give value for money with Banderas giving a bravura performance second only to "The Mask of Zorro". Donner & Co. did us proud.
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Stallone & Banderas
Added 1/10/2009
I saw this years ago and loved it. I love the banter between Banderas and Stallone. Banderas is an "up-and-coming" punk assassin and wants to prove to himself that he is number 1. Stallone is "old school" and the current number 1. He has ethics... if there is such a thing with assassins. But Stallone wants out. The past and the things he as done haunt him. But now he has a new problem.... Banderas keeps taking his contracts and then tries to kill him.
Now... its survival of the "best". Julianne Moore is a quirky "mark" who gets caught in the middle of an elaborate chess game. Her and Stallone bond under unusual circumstances. He helps keep her alive, and they become partners in this adventure/thriller.
The technology is old... DOS computers, but you can see how it all fits... and I'm sure it was advanced for its time.
The ending is really good! Combining the old past(back flashes) with the current situation. Watch the details.
If you like Stallone and Banderas... you will love this film.
Another one I like is "The Specialist" with Stallone and Sharon Stone... same genre.
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Action Classic
Added 10/16/2008
Assassins is an oft-overlooked classic action movie, an excellent thriller delivered by director Joel Silver and the screenplay-writing Wachowski brothers. The story is about Robert Rath (Stallone), an assassin who gets his contracts via the computer. Rath wants to quit the sordid business, but he can't say no to the last big job, retrieving a computer disc and killing the mark, in this case an encrypter played by Julianne Moore.
Antonio Banderas is a young assassin who enjoys his work way too much, who idolizes and hates Rath. For some reason, Banderas keeps turning up at Robert's contracts. Also for some inexplicable reason, Rath chooses to protect the cat-loving computer genius instead of kill her.
Lots of great car chases, gun fights, stunts, and hilarious, over-the-top acting from Banderas. He and Stallone go well together; I hope someday, they will team up again.
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