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The Specialist

The Specialist

5,9 /10 (1,440 Votes)
1994 EN 110 min

Overview

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

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Release date

07/10/1994

Votes

1,440

Popularity

5.0

The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

110 min

Budget

$45,000,000

Revenue

$170,362,582

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Gimly

Gimly

2018-06-04

⭐ 4

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._

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2020-07-08

⭐ 6

_**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…

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JPV852

JPV852

2020-07-18

⭐ 5

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**

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