The Specialist
by Luis Llosa
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Actor: Eric Roberts, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Sharon Stone, Sylvester StalloneDirector: Luis Llosa
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Chuck Binder
Producer: Jeff Most
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Producer: R.J. Louis
Producer: Steve Barron
Writer: Alexandra Seros
Writer: John Shirley
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-02-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Specialist
Movie Review: Over-The-Top-But Very Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
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!
Summary of The Specialist
The pasts and futures of a retired explosives expert and a revenge-obsessed beauty become dangerously intertwined in this sensual action thriller. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/31/2005 Starring: Sylvester Stallone James Woods Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R Director: Luis LlosaJust awful enough to qualify as someone's guilty pleasure, this convoluted thriller was supposed to cash in on the supposedly sexy teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone (then hot from her ample exposure in Basic Instinct), but their naked groping in a shower provides one of the film's unintentionally funny highlights. Ray Quick (Stallone) is a former CIA bomb expert whose former colleague (James Woods) is now in cahoots with a Miami drug cartel led by kingpin Joe Leon (Rod Steiger), who chews the scenery while his son Tomas (Eric Roberts) proceeds with a greedy hidden agenda. May Munro (Stone) hires Quick to kill off Roberts. The Specialist, featuring lots of explosions and redeemed by a dandy role for James Woods, is best suited for ardent Stallone and Stone fans. --Jeff Shannon
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