Vigilante
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Movie Reviews of Vigilante
Movie Review: Loved It
Summary: 5 Stars
My husban got this and he thinks that it is a grate action movie and better than all of the Death Wish movies.Movie Review: Forester, Lustig and "The Hammer"
Summary: 4 Stars
Vigilante films are like skanky, chain smoking trailer trash chicks-I can't resist either one. Vigilante flicks are just so much fun(though they certainly aren't all great). There's nothing like watching the average Joe(or Jane as it where) pushed to the limit and unleashing deadly fury on scumbag criminals. In reality it may be against the law, but it's all something we wish we'd see more of in the world. Hell, some of us may wish we could do it. But at least we can dream-And we have the movies!
So, director William Lustig(you know, the Maniac and Maniac Cop guy) takes on the genre with Robert Forester in the "Bronson" role. Forester's co-workers are actually a gang of vigilantes by night and ride around in a van looking for punks to stomp into the ground. Their leader is none other than....(drumroll).....Fred "The Hammer" Williamson! Oh how I love that man. Forester doesn't totally approve of their methods until one day when he's away from home and a gang of thugs kill his son and nearly kill his wife.. This is a rather brutal scene because one member of the gang rather pointlessly blasts the child with a shotgun in cold blood! Of course going through legal channels doesn't help matters and Forester is the one who ends up going to jail for contempt after he(understandably) throws a tantrum in the courtroom. Here's where most folks have complaints about the film. A decent amount of screen time is given to seeing Forester in jail, and it really doesn't seem to have any relation to the rest of the plot and seems more like a time filler than anything. I didn't mind it though, it was interesting enough to keep me watching. Plus, Woody Strode is one of his fellow inmates.
But once he's out of prison, he wants revenge! So who better to go to than Fred Williamson and his vigilante gang?
Cool movie. Could have been a bit better, but a pretty cool movie. Forester doesn't go into buttkicking mode til the final act of the film, so don't expect an action extravaganza. And although Forester is a good actor, it might have helped if he looked the least bit sad or upset by his kid being murdered and his wife nearly murdered. And Fred Williamson? Well, he's "The Hammer", what can I say?
Well worth the time.
Movie Review: One of the best vigilante movies of the 80's.
Summary: 4 Stars
Academy Award nominee Robert Forster teams up with cult icon Fred Williamson and a team of other men to dish out street justice on the vicious attackers of Forster's family.
"Vigilante" I used to hate. Barely 10 minutes in and I just didn't feel like finishing it. And I call myself a fan of vigilante cinema. Luckily I gave this sucker another chance, and I loved it. The opening attack on Forster's family was pretty intense, and the vengeance dished out by the vigilante squad later, though a bit quick, is still pretty satisfying. Our good guys are well-written (moral conflicts come into play), while our bad guys are a bit underwritten on the other hand, though adequately hatable characters. My only other complaint is that Forster isn't given a lot to do in the movie; his vengeance is rather crammed into the last half hour or so. But hey, everything else is just right; "good" guys, "bad" guys, not to mention violence and action that gets pretty brutal when called for, gritty cinematography courtesy of genre vet James Lemmo, and a thunderous and menacing electronic score from the underrated Jay Chattaway. Aside from a few minor questionable moments, a well-spent grindhouse time.
Movie Review: A movie that is boring as hell with very little good action scenes
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie has a good story and all, but its mass amount of filler, lack of action scenes, average action and its slow pacing that make it a bit boring to watch.
While it does have some cool moments, which are the ones where Fred Williamson's vigilante character and his buddies start hurting and killing bad guys, but these moments are few and far between. If u want to see a really good vigilante movie, don't see this one, go see either "Death Wish," or any othwe vigilante flick besides this one. 3.5/10