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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 17394
Released: May 18, 1999 |
| Our Price: $1.35 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on the TV series of the same name. A maverick cop is on the trail of a corrupt auto tycoon.
Description of Action Jackson:
Having built a name for himself playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, Carl Weathers hoped to launch his own action-hero franchise as the wishfully named Action Jackson. But this first film never took off and it turned into a one-movie series. Weathers plays Jackson, a police sergeant so nicknamed because he always seems to be where the action is. He runs afoul of an evil auto magnate (Craig T. Nelson), who promptly sets about putting Jackson in the middle of a jackpot for murder. Jackson springs himself from jail and goes on the run, aided by junkie-with-a-heart-of-gold Vanity, before bringing Nelson to justice. Weathers is an impressive specimen but an indistinct personality (though he can handle a one-liner), and he's overmatched against fire-breathing villain Nelson. --Marshall Fine
Action Jackson Reviews:
It's all good,but could be better. 
2009-09-02 - The movie was okay but it could be better. The scene was good but they should do an uncut version to this movie. Vanity was hot and find as hell. Carl Weathers was alright when he played the part of Action Jackson. And Sharon Stone was okay to. They should remake this movie unrated. They should also have the full nudity in this film. I understand that this movie was made back in the days, but when they release this on DVD they should have remade this movie uncut. But other than that, this movie was alright with me. Thanks Amazon on demand.
De'Vear Small
Representing Decatur GA.
Taking me way back 
2009-04-30 - So much fun watching this, that I forgot how long ago I have seen this movie.
"Action Jackson" is a competently standard showcase for Carl Weathers' superhero cool...
2008-08-07 - Action is a proud man, a high-school track star, a dedicated cop, a sergeant who lost his lieutenant's stripes almost two years ago...
He jostles a conceited, two-faced, backstabbing mass murderer called Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson). Director Craig R. Baxley has not only carried it off, but makes you believe it... One must also give some of the credit to Carl Weathers whose erect muscular body and his charm and good looks give some credence to the heroics...
The picture contains fun, lots of action, and two sexy women...
Vanity looked so gorgeous when she was shot up with heroin...
Stone met her husband after his first wife died and his son went to prison... She thinks that he may seem greedy and arrogant but he remained loved by everyone, and the whole experience changed him... She also thinks that Jackson is not so different from her husband, that both are stubborn, and both intent on getting what they want...
Should have been a franchise for Weathers 
2008-03-25 - I remeber seeing Action Jackson when I was seven years old and enjoying the movie like it was the best thing since sliced bread. I bouhgt the film on DVD back in 2003 and I enjoyed even more now and take for what it is a action comedy. Carl Weathers recalls Richard Roundtree's Shaft and Jim's Kelly Performance as Black Belt Jones. The film is full over the top and one that's for the guys.
elementarily stupid and cliched to the extreme 
2007-01-16 - childish screenplay with formulaic dialog, explosions, unnecessary nudity scenes, unnecessary clown-like keep-fainting pickpocket-bag snatching guy, unnecessary gun shooting scenes, song...ruined a lot of furniture, broke a lot of windows, unnecessary man-of-the-year award scene.....almost 80% of this movie could be deleted without hurting the super shallow and hollow childish movie. worse than reading a comic book. a total waste of the production fund which could do a lot good for the 3rd world countries.
