![]() ![]() Bruce Dern did it in “ComingHome” and William Devane in “Rolling Thunder”. This is all old, familiar material from adozen other films clichés recycled as formula. All of this is set up in scenes of great physical power and strength andthe central sections of the movie, with Stallone and the cops stalking eachother through the forests of the Pacific Northwest, have a lot of authority.But then the movie comes down to a face-off between Stallone and his old GreenBeret commander ( Richard Crenna), and the screenplay gives Stallone a long,impassioned speech to deliver, a speech in which he cries out against theinjustices done to him and against the hippies who demonstrated at the airportwhen he returned from the war, etc. Stallone plays a returned Vietnamveteran, a Green Beret skilled in the art of jungle survival and fighting, andafter a small-town police force sadistically mishandles him, he declares war onthe cops. What we can't buy in this movie is the message.It's handled in too heavy-handed a way. ![]()
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