Lone Wolf McQuade
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Movie Reviews of Lone Wolf McQuade
Movie Review: Chuck Norris' best film!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This could easily be a prelude to "Walker:Texas Ranger", but does hold its own after many years, Chuck Norris gives a very good performance as a Texas Ranger that keeps law & order any way he can, the film begins with him on patrol in the Texas desert, he soon discovers a band of outlaws running a horse ring operation, he also discovers State Marshals infiltrating the operation, soon all hell breaks loose as the bandits soon wipe out the state police officers & holds others hostage, feeling responsibilty to his fellow officers, McQuade soon creates a distraction & single-handlely wipes out the outlaws, the film then progresses to its plot where we meet Kung Fu Master David Carradine as a shady business man who is running guns to terrorist organizations all around the world, his dealings soon catch the attention of McQuade who soon realizes that Carradine's operation may have involved the murder of several Federal Officers, soon Carradine is full aware of McQuade's pursuit & attempts to cause a series of distractions, one involving McQuade's teenage daughter as well as the murder of a witness to the organization, not to mention a fellow Ranger, McQuade soon takes matters into his own hands & despite warnings from ATF officers goes after Carradine., Carradine is really good here as the villian that at one point gets the upper hand on McQuade & attempts to kill him by burying him alive, the viewer knows a showdown is inevitable, McQuade's relationship with Carradine's woman only complicates matters, but the highlight of this film has to be the final confrontation between Carradine & Norris, after McQuade destroys his operation, the two square off in a KUNG-FU -vs- KARATE fight that Carradine & Norris display quite nicely, definately one of Chuck Norrris' better films & a good action film that is rare in today's Hollywood, a must have for any Norris fan!!!, the DVD transfer of this film is one of the best I have seen, Highly Recommended!!Movie Review: Sam Peckinpah meets Sergio Leone meets Quentin Tarantino
Summary: 5 Stars
Fellini, Bergman, Trouffaut: if those names mean nothing to you, then, buddy, you are in the right place! Now that we are among friends, let me just say the Lone Wolf McQuade is one of the greatest movies ever made! If I were sitting in my '70 GTO convertible in a Drive-in, this would have to part of the double bill. My only criticism for it is-What? No sequel!?! Now, let me count the ways I love this movie:
1. The cast-Bold and brawling Norris vs. bad and nasty Carradine.
Outside of Kill Bill and The Long Riders, its Carradine's best cinematic work. Chuck Norris is inspired as the Lone Wolf whose workdesk is a shrine to sloppiness and whose hacienda is the ultimate machismo monument (not to mention his truck-a truly magnificent beast). Include Peckinpah favorites R.G.Armstrong and L.Q.Jones and you know they've scored a casting coup.
2. The music-Is that Ennio Morricone I hear? No? Well close enough. The soundtrack is a welcome return to the Spaghetti Western genre for this contemporary story. I wish I had gotten the album.
3.The over-all feeling one is left with-Satisfying violence (Peckinpah style), some good-lookin' fillies (Barbera Carerra at her finest), quirky bad guys (another nod to Spaghetti Westerns), a workin' class hero with extra-ordinary killing powers...dang, this is good stuff! And once again we are treated to the reoccurring theme of Chuck Norris movies: the "system" doesn't know it's a**hole from a hole in the ground and despite his utter disregard for the rules, our main man gets the job done and all is forgiven. This inherent truth is what connected Norris to millions of red-blooded Americans.
Now here's fodder for Q Tarentino: Take his Michael Parks character from Kill Bill back about 20 years and serve us up some more Texas Ranger hardcore chili. Maybe, just maybe, it could fill up that double billing at the drive-in with Lone Wolf McQuade!
Movie Review: The Chuck stops here
Summary: 5 Stars
What kind of world is it that has no Chuck Norris? A world where crippled midgets do not get punched? Where booze is no longer a substitute for Power-Ade or spinach? Where bald white guys who make a career out of pretending to be Asian no longer get to hang out with really, very, tremendously hot chicks whose waist-lines are above their belly-buttons? Where a pair of cowboy boots is no longer a legal license to kill Mexicans? Pardon me, but that, sir, is not the kind of world I'd care to live in.
Need I say more? There have been countless scores of cowboy-karate movies, but looking back through even the most shining moments of the genre, I keep coming back to one title: Lone Wolf McQuade. Chuck here is a true bad boy. He's cleaned up his image plenty since the days before he began having his back waxed. And this film finds him on the cusp of those two Chucks: still bad, but a little less hairy.
McQuade is, essentially, the swansong of the old bad Chuck, crusading for street justice with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other. These kinds of heroes--pure heroes, one might say--seemed to have died with the 70s, suffocating under the layers of pink T-shirts and white suits that the 80s would herald in. What remained was the Chuck of "Sidekicks". Not an objectionable scrap of content in sight. Pity.
This is an *important* film. It matters. Dreams have been made, molded, shattered, remolded and then scrapped completely because of this film. When you get sick of movies where good guys can't kill foreigners for no good reason, you should pick up this vintage work, if for no other reason than its anthropological significance. And the fact that it kicks @$$. Just like Chuck.
We still have faith, Chuck. We still believe.
Movie Review: Chuck Norris vs. David Carradine = B movie heaven!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just read the breaking news...David Carradine dead at age 72 from an apparent suicide. In honor of the man, I've decided to review my favorite David Carradine film: Lone Wolf McQuade.
This is pure B movie heaven. The film score sounds like it came straight out of a Spaghetti Western. Chuck Norris stars as Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade: a man who seems to fit every country music cliche ever to grace the Nashville songbook. He's a dirty, divorced, boozing, renegade, who doesn't take crap from anyone, drives around in a beat up dirty old truck with a supercharger under the hood and who's only real friend seems to be his dog (wolf).
In the tradition of low grade action flicks, there is a fight almost every five minutes for no reason, great one liners, an evil midget, a battle between a half track and a bulldozer, round house kicks to the face, machine gun battles, explosions, stupid FBI agents, and David Carradine as the villian!
Years before Kill Bill Carradine had the role of villian down. In this film he plays an illegal arms dealer with a lot of money and a big ego. Unfortunatly, Norris and Carradine's characters both share the same love interest, the beautiful Barbara Carrera, and ultimatly Texas isn't big enough for the both of them.
The disc here doesn't have any special features to speak of, but this is still an awesome flick to watch in the man cave. The end battle doesn't let you down.
If you want to see Chuck take on the Kung Fu legend while they were both still in their prime then look no further. Grab the nachos, crack open a cold one, pop this in your DVD player and experience the sensation of your brain melting while viewing the most epic B-action movie to ever grace the silver screen. Goodbye Mr. Carradine; your fans will miss you.
Movie Review: Beware Of Midgets With Golden Guns!
Summary: 5 Stars
Another fabulous film inspired by Sid the Elf. You must check them out if you haven't already!
I've been a Norris Fan for quite some time, yet I haven't seen all of his movies since he's got over 500 in his library. So I've been catching up on my Chia-Chuck lately, hitting the good & the bad. This movie is quite good!
First of all it has a midget in the movie. And it's not your usual dwarf/elf/stunt-double midget. This little bugger is, basically, cause for all the chaos in the film. Midgets need more positive roles like this one in Hollywood. I'm tired of elf movies.
David Carradine plays a bad guy in this movie, and does it well. I'm used to seeing him as Bill from the Tarantino flicks (and vaguely remember him in Kung Fu). So it was nice to get a younger Bill, and more evil I think.
Norris is his usual bad self. A blend of karate and NRA member he takes out some slimeball with gold teeth and most of everyone else in the movie. And how does Norris get to bed all these hot women? He must have them write it in the script or threatens to quit the movie. In any rate his Chia-Chest pulls them in like the Death Star's tractor beam.
The final showdown is a bid silly, as Norris doesn't really show off his karate against Carradine, until he gives a good backfist to Norris' daughter. Then he goes into "Hulk" mode and almost kicks Carradine's head off.
A great Norris movie that has only 1 flaw: they left the midget behind, with his cute little arms swinging in the air.