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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 163865
Released: June 30, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/30/2009 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R
Description of The Specialist (Keepcase):
Just awful enough to qualify as someone's guilty pleasure, this convoluted thriller was supposed to cash in on the supposedly sexy teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone (then hot from her ample exposure in Basic Instinct), but their naked groping in a shower provides one of the film's unintentionally funny highlights. Ray Quick (Stallone) is a former CIA bomb expert whose former colleague (James Woods) is now in cahoots with a Miami drug cartel led by kingpin Joe Leon (Rod Steiger), who chews the scenery while his son Tomas (Eric Roberts) proceeds with a greedy hidden agenda. May Munro (Stone) hires Quick to kill off Roberts. The Specialist, featuring lots of explosions and redeemed by a dandy role for James Woods, is best suited for ardent Stallone and Stone fans. --Jeff Shannon
The Specialist (Keepcase) Reviews:
This Seller is GREAT 
2009-09-22 - I received the item I ordered in fantastic condition, right away, and am VERY happy with my order. I will absolutely be ordering again.
Over-The-Top-But Very Entertaining 
2009-05-28 - I enjoy a good revenge movie as well as the next guy, but, holy smokes, this crosses the line a little bit with the glorification of it...at least with the ending (which I won't give away but involves Sharon Stone's character).
Whatever, the film features an entertaining tale of a revenge-obsessed woman (Stone) who hires Sylvester Stallon (The Specialist, a term for his bomb-making talents) to kill all the people responsible for her parents' murder years earlier.
The villains are over-the-top, to say the least. One almost has to laugh out loud at one of them: James Woods. Few people have been better at playing despicable villains than Woods, and in this film he plays that role to the hilt. He also rattles off the best line in the movie when he tells some tourist to "get a new shirt, too."
Some of the bombing scenes are quite memorable, such as a chunk of a condo building falling into the ocean.
If revenge is to your liking, this is your cup of tea - a big cup!
Stallone Can Make Anything Bad 
2008-01-17 - This movie should be better than what it is. You have Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts and James Woods. These are three very good actors. You have Sharon Stone looking incredibly hot and at her peak of sexiness. And then you have... STALLONE. This peice of wood is the only person I know that can make a nude sex scene with Sharon Stone boring. He is so gassed up and that his lack of body fat has his face looking like a skeleton. The guy is a horrible actor. He was good in the first Rocky and man... he sucks in everything he is in (and don't tell me about Copland. He was horrible in that too).
Watch Basic Instinct, Star 80, Pope of Greenwhich Village, or Runaway Train, Salvador and The Pawnbroker or Capone. This movie is just really bad. Why? Two words... STA LLONE.
What I wouldnt give to have been Sharon Stone!
2007-07-17 - As a woman, I find it hilarious how often Stallone is panned by fellow men. I have to wonder why?? Personally, I like his style and he's very VERY easy on the eyes as well. I read that Stone had a crush on Stallone and was anxious to work with him. (another beautiful actress, Madeline Stowe, said the same thing about her screen time with him). Perhaps some folks think that by trashing Stallone's acting, they can somehow feel superior? Trust me, it aint working. The man is hawt, the chemistry sizzles, and you get one guess who I fantasize about...the action scenes are good too, but I expect that in a Stallone film.
Unexceptional Thriller 
2007-03-23 - The much-anticipated teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone in 1994's "The Specialist" features a pulpy revenge storyline, plenty of explosions, and the two leads in a steamy shower scene, but never achieves any real momentum.
Stallone is a former special operations type turned contract hitman, who specializes in very small, very precise, and very lethal explosive devices. His current employer is Sharon Stone, out for revenge against the Miami mob family who murdered her father and by turns emotionally raw and duplicitiously smooth. Rod Stieger and Eric Roberts play the Mob family leader and his greedy son.
The movie is stolen by James Woods as Stallone's former special operations boss, now working for the mob on the side. His over-the-top vendetta against Stallone for a career-killing incident in Central America is much more entertaining than Stallone's rather wooden relationship with the Sharon Stone character. The movie features plenty of action sequences, as Stallone races to complete his assignment for his new and very possibly untruthworthy love interest before Woods can track down and kill his former pupil.
This movie is a moderately entertaining action thriller, if light on content and real movie chemistry.
