This is from director William Friedkin
(The French Connection, The Exorcist) and was released in 1977 around the same
time as Star Wars and just got lost in all the hoopla. It is about group of outcasts from different
backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an
oil-drilling operation in South America.
There has never been a good copy of this available on any home video
format and Friedkin himself over saw the restoration of the film. Current news has already surfaced that the blu
ray is the best way to watch this as the DVD is apparently in the wrong aspect
ratio. Anyway cannot wait to pick this up
and rediscover this movie.
Now I have seen this Sly version and was really underwhelmed
more by the direction more than Sly himself.
He was pretty cool in this and we
get a glimpse of The Expendables’ Barney Ross here with the goatee. Sly takes the turn as Jack Carter here as he
returns for the funeral of his brother Richie after a car crash during a storm
to do an investigation of his own.
Sounds familiar…
This was a nice little action movie as it marked a bit of a
return for Seagal as he trimmed down some, cut the pony tail, and was back in a
modestly budgeted action movie. Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a tough cop in an
inner-city precinct that discovers a web of dirty cops and corruption. This has producers Joel Silver’s stamp all
over it.
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