Wanted Dead or Alive
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Movie Reviews of Wanted Dead or Alive
Movie Review: Greatest Ending of All Time
Summary: 4 Stars
Decent Film. Great acting by Hauer and Simmons. Absolutely fantastic ending (involving a certain grenade) that's worth the price of admission.Movie Review: Oldie but Goodie
Summary: 4 Stars
Fast paced action movie of the 70's variety. Hauer is good in his role. This must be Gene Simmons first film. The ending line is classic.Movie Review: Wanted Dead or Alive is a 80's action classic.
Summary: 4 Stars
If you want to see action and the way terrorists should be treated watch this DVD.Movie Review: Cameos by rest of KISS on cutting room floor
Summary: 3 Stars
Where to begin? Age and the DVD have made films like this almost required purchases for bad-movie addicts who remember the glory days of the 1980s where violent, idiotic films were perfected to science.
Wanted Dead or Alive is supposed to follow the 50s TV show that starred Steve McQueen, but it doesn't really matter much, since McQueen didn't live to see this classic and make a cameo, and since they could have made the same film without the connection. But we all know that having some kind of brand-name recognition might get one or two more people into theaters, which is why every single, two-bit TV show will be made into a film by rich movie producers who still don't understand what they're doing.
The film is highly recommended for bad-movie addicts. Perhaps more valuable than Hauer, who eventually got lost making too many bad movies in the years following this one, we have Gene Simmons brilliantly portraying an evil Arab terrorist, making the film plenty relevant today as the world has been reduced to an action movie of sorts. Simmons, who is Jewish, looks to be having fun, as he was in the Tom Selleck flick, Runaway, where he played that bad guy who used to write the names of his victims on his bullets, or something like that. Why wasn't he cast in more films as a bad guy? (Simmons, not Selleck). He has the mannerisms down, he has the lines, and we all know he is one of the most shameless dollar hounds in entertainment history. I liked the touch of him blowing up a movie theater showing a Rambo matinee, you know, in case we didn't get it.
Anyway, perhaps what folks remember most is the famous grenade-in-the-mouth ending, which upheld an iron-clad 80s rule: the badder the bad guys, the more violent and ridiculous the deaths. This coup-de-grace was delivered the same year that Stallone hung a guy on a giant hook in Cobra, and a year after Bronson blew up a gang leader with a rocket launcher in his apartment in the unmatchable Death Wish III.
One of those cheap DVD pick-ups, the availability of such revered crap ensures you'll never be bored, and that you can always, on demand, deduct a few IQ points after slaving away for a few bucks. In the 80s, and well into the 90s, crap like this could make it to the theater. But they don't make 'em like this anymore. No, instead they make worse, more expensive crap.
Movie Review: Rutger's the man ......
Summary: 3 Stars
Saw this movie years ago and decided to get it on DVD. Fun movie with plenty of action. Rutger had plenty of potential when he started, but his potential never really blossomed.