“女が仕組んで男が仕掛ける。”
かつてCIAの爆破工作員であったレイ・クックは、今はフロリダでフリーの爆破作業請負人として孤独な日々を送っていた。そんなある日、レイはメイ・マンローという女性から復讐のために3人の人間を爆破で殺してほしいという仕事の依頼を受ける。自分は殺し屋ではないと一度は依頼を断ったレイだったが、彼女の熱意と魅力的な声に惹かれ、調査を開始するが……。
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監督: Luis Llosa
脚本: Alexandra Seros / John Shirley
音楽: John Barry
制作: Jerry Weintraub / Jeff Most / Chuck Binder
撮影監督: Jeffrey L. Kimball
制作会社: Jerry Weintraub Productions / Iguana Producciones / Warner Bros. Pictures
A bomber makes for about as heroic a protagonist as you might expect. There is no reason to put yourself through the plodding pretentiousness of _The Specialist_ unless you, like I was, are on some sort of quest to watch the entire 80s-90s Stallone filography. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
_**Explosive comic book crime thriller with Stallone, Stone and Woods**_ An ex-CIA demolitions expert (Sylvester Stallone) is hired by a grim beauty in Miami (Sharon Stone) to take out the mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a girl. Rod Steiger and Eric Roberts play high society gangsters while James Woods is on hand as the specialist’s rival, who works for the mob. "The Specialist" (1994) is a competent Stallone action flick set in Miami, albeit seriously comic booky with Woods really hamming it up; Roberts too, to a lesser degree. Stallone was 47 during shooting and in exceptional shape. Not that I care, but he and Stone are shown totally nude in a shower scene (in a tasteful way). She looked great at 35, but this flick doesn’t beat “King Solomon’s Mines” (1985) where Sharon’s shorts kept getting shorter as the story progressed. Her character in that film wasn’t ultra-bitter as she is in this one; she was all-around vibrant. It’s kind of glaring, but the movie borrowed music from the 80’s Bond films; obviously the producers wanted that vibe. While it lacks the globetrotting of 007, it’s basically a mix of 80’s Bond and “The Punisher” (1989). The film runs 1 hour, 50 minutes and was shot in the Miami area, Florida, with the opening done at Great Falls Dam, Rock Island, Tennessee. GRADE: B-/C+
Decent action can't overcome thin characters plus Stallone and Stone didn't have much chemistry together. At the very least James Woods, once again, goes over-the-top as the villain so he was entertaining. **2.75/5**
