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Action Jackson

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Producing House

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1988-02-12

Runtime: 96 mins

Director: Craig R. Baxley

Spoken language: Français, English

Genres: Action, Comedy

Original title: Action Jackson

Production Companies: Silver Pictures, Lorimar Film Entertainment

Production Countries: United States of America

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Poor man's action-comedy from the 80s tries so hard to make Carl Weathers a star and while he can have his charms, he's saddled with awful one-liners that even for the time were bad, and not at all funny. Rather thin story which is fine but the action/fights were basic and Weathers shared very little chemistry with Vanity, who might be cute but not a great actor. Craig T. Nelson as the villain could've been fun, however save for a scene or two, doesn't offer very much. I can see why this didn't do very well at the box office (adjusted for ticket inflation, ~$38M) and Weathers didn't have much of a career (in theatrical features anyway) afterward. **2.25/5**
2020-07-09

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