The Specialist: Sharon Stone is May Munro a beauty with a fatal past: she's sworn death to the mobsters who murdered her parents. To do the job she recruits ex-CIA explosive experts Ray Quick (Stallone). Miami grows white-hot as May lures the killers and Ray detonates them into ashes. But a vicious mob boss (Roy Stieger) his brash son (Eric Roberts) and a psychotic hired gun (James Woods) with a lethal grudge against Quick won't go without a fight. The passion the two aven
Two clunkers for the price of one; not only are those good people at 'Warner Brothers' offering you a chance to revisit substandard 1995 Stallone action flick 'Assassins', but are also throwing in his thrill-free thriller 'The Specialist' for good measure. 'Assassins' sees a promising script by the then unknown Wachowski brothers marched out into the Warner lot, blindfolded and summarily executed by Dick 'always there when you need director' Donner. Stallone is the world-weary hit man who wants out, Antonio Banderas is the cocky upstart assassin who wants in; an inevitable clash ensues as both of them are double booked to take care of the same targets (similar to the opening scene of 'Grosse Pointe Blank' only lacking the wit or coherence). This kind of thing only serves to annoy Banderas who, in spite of the material, actually manages to turn in a reasonably good performance, and its" only a matter of time before the pair are at each others throats again. Julianne Moore also crops up as an unlikely hacker called Electra (a template for Trinity perhaps) but by then, you"re beyond caring. An overlong, barely tolerable movie that shoots itself in the foot early on, but still limps along for 133 minutes of ennui.
'The Specialist' is equally dire (if not worse), Sly stars as ex-CIA black-ops man Ray Quick (gotta love the name) hired by a mysterious woman (Sharon Stone) to exact revenge on the mob who killed her father when she was child. The mob, however, have Ray"s former partner and CIA man (another effortlessly sleazy turn by James Woods) in their employ. Slick set ups and big bangs are the order of the day as Stallone tries to do whatever he can to make this bomb of a movie seem in the least bit interesting, Sharon Stone even gets her kit off in an effort to alleviate the tedium, but alas, its far too late by then. The only spark of life comes from the late/great Rod Steiger (playing the Miami mob boss) who"s resurrected his comedy Hispanic accent from 'A Fistful Of Dynamite'. 'The Specialist' is a pretty dull, cumbersome affair which fizzles-out in the first few minutes.
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