Rating: PG13
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 06/30/2009
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
This over-the-top star vehicle for box office draws
Sylvester Stallone and
Sharon Stone went through a series of directors before landing in the hands of
Luis Llosa. Stallone stars as Ray Quick, a former CIA bomb expert now retired in Miami after an operation against a South American drug lord went horribly wrong, resulting in the death of a child. Ray is coaxed out of retirement by May Munro (Stone) to help her get revenge on the powerful organized crime family -- headed up by Joe Leon (
Rod Steiger) and his son Tomas (
Eric Roberts) -- that killed her parents years before. In the meantime, Ray's former partner Ned Trent (
James Woods) is on the Leon family payroll and is seeking his own kind of revenge on Ray. As Ray executes Leon's soldiers one by one, his attraction to May boils over into a steamy encounter in the shower, a prelude to an explosive finale. Although director Llosa wisely kept his camera focused on his buff, semi-clad stars and the film's spectacular effects, the somewhat silly and incoherent plot resulted in a poor box office performance for
The Specialist, the third disappointment in a row for Stone.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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