It's not something I appreciated greatly until the DVD age, being a little light in the action department for me when I was younger, but it's now firmly one of the more re-watchable movies in my sizeable collection, one of my go to films and I watch it several times a year.
Though on the whole it may not be a great movie artistically or production value wise, the story, characters and some of the scenes and lines are pretty memorable and I think excellent storytelling.
A criticism I've seen on here is that it takes a complex story and simplifies it or ruins it, but on the contrary, I think it does pretty well to trim it down and into film length. It's pretty underrated and under appreciated in my opinion. I personally rate it an 8 or 9 as a personal preference, but really think it's at least worthy of a seven point something. Unfortunately it's just not to a lot of peoples' tastes.
'I'm serious as cancer when I say Rhythm is a Dancer'
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brokedickdog5
8 years ago
It's pretty underrated and under appreciated in my opinion. I personally rate it an 8 or 9 as a personal preference, but really think it's at least worthy of a seven point something. Unfortunately it's just not to a lot of peoples' tastes.
I agree.
The film may have been negatively impacted be post-production editing. Drew's character (Tom Berenger) was supposed to be in the movie more and many of his scenes were cut out. I don't know all the details but Tom Berenger was not happy that many of his scenes were left on the cutting room floor.
Still Drew is effective as a thrill-seeking merc.
A good action movie.
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