Action Jackson
by Craig R. Baxley
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Actor: Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Sharon Stone, Thomas F. Wilson, VanityDirector: Craig R. Baxley
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
Editor: Mark Helfrich
Producer: Joel Silver
Producer: Steve Perry
Writer: Robert Reneau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Action Jackson
Movie Review: "Action Jackson" is a competently standard showcase for Carl Weathers' superhero cool...
Summary: 3 Stars
Action is a proud man, a high-school track star, a dedicated cop, a sergeant who lost his lieutenant's stripes almost two years ago...
He jostles a conceited, two-faced, backstabbing mass murderer called Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson). Director Craig R. Baxley has not only carried it off, but makes you believe it... One must also give some of the credit to Carl Weathers whose erect muscular body and his charm and good looks give some credence to the heroics...
The picture contains fun, lots of action, and two sexy women...
Vanity looked so gorgeous when she was shot up with heroin...
Stone met her husband after his first wife died and his son went to prison... She thinks that he may seem greedy and arrogant but he remained loved by everyone, and the whole experience changed him... She also thinks that Jackson is not so different from her husband, that both are stubborn, and both intent on getting what they want...
Summary of Action Jackson
Based on the TV series of the same name. A maverick cop is on the trail of a corrupt auto tycoon.Having built a name for himself playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, Carl Weathers hoped to launch his own action-hero franchise as the wishfully named Action Jackson. But this first film never took off and it turned into a one-movie series. Weathers plays Jackson, a police sergeant so nicknamed because he always seems to be where the action is. He runs afoul of an evil auto magnate (Craig T. Nelson), who promptly sets about putting Jackson in the middle of a jackpot for murder. Jackson springs himself from jail and goes on the run, aided by junkie-with-a-heart-of-gold Vanity, before bringing Nelson to justice. Weathers is an impressive specimen but an indistinct personality (though he can handle a one-liner), and he's overmatched against fire-breathing villain Nelson. --Marshall Fine
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