THE EXTERMINATOR
"The man they pushed too far"
IMDB.com Rating: 5.5 out of 10
Availability: In-print and moderately-priced
Beverage: An Exterminator
Ingredients:
1 oz light rum
1 oz Chartreuse
Method:
Mix both and pour into an Old Fashioned glass.
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Tonight's movie is 'The Exterminator'. When a film begins as graphically as this one (you'll just have to buy it to know what I'm talking about), you know you're in for an assault. Routinely, there are unique and terrible ways for the bad guys to die. "Meat mobster", Gino Pontivini, gets dropped into a giant meat grinder, a Vietcong soldier gets his throat terribly disfigured by piano wire, a couple gangsters die by custom-made exploding bullets, a politician gets shot in the crotch, a sexual predator gets caught on fire, and those are just the ones which come to mind.
After coming back from a rough tour in Vietnam, where held as a P.O.W., John Eastland takes up work at a warehouse. When a couple gangsters hassle him and paralyze his best friend and war buddy, Jefferson, Eastland snaps and kills everyone who deserves it. He eventually takes his private war to Washington, killing dirty politicians.
'The Exterminator' stars Robert Ginty (who spent the '60s in rock acts, hanging out with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Lee Hooker), Samantha Eggar ('The Brood' and 'Metalocalypse'), Steve James (classic action sidekick and stuntman, 'I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka', 'American Ninja') and Christopher George (who had an incredible career right before his 1983 death; including 'Mortuary', 'Pieces', 'Enter the Ninja', 'Graduation Day', and 'City of the Living Dead'. Also, he was in 'Chisum', but I'm not too fond of John Wayne, so I couldn't care less).
After coming back from a rough tour in Vietnam, where held as a P.O.W., John Eastland takes up work at a warehouse. When a couple gangsters hassle him and paralyze his best friend and war buddy, Jefferson, Eastland snaps and kills everyone who deserves it. He eventually takes his private war to Washington, killing dirty politicians.
'The Exterminator' stars Robert Ginty (who spent the '60s in rock acts, hanging out with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Lee Hooker), Samantha Eggar ('The Brood' and 'Metalocalypse'), Steve James (classic action sidekick and stuntman, 'I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka', 'American Ninja') and Christopher George (who had an incredible career right before his 1983 death; including 'Mortuary', 'Pieces', 'Enter the Ninja', 'Graduation Day', and 'City of the Living Dead'. Also, he was in 'Chisum', but I'm not too fond of John Wayne, so I couldn't care less).
Here's a clip of Christopher George as the bad guy in 'Enter the Ninja'.
Classic.
Anyway, I digress. So where was I? Oh, yes -- 'The Exterminator'.
On my scale:
Overall Enjoyment ----13
Redeeming Qualities--13
Rewatchability---------6
Special Effects---------8
Directing/Quality------7
Plot/Storyline----------7
Pacing-----------------7
Dialogue/Acting-------8
TOTAL---------------69
Overall Enjoyment ----13
Redeeming Qualities--13
Rewatchability---------6
Special Effects---------8
Directing/Quality------7
Plot/Storyline----------7
Pacing-----------------7
Dialogue/Acting-------8
TOTAL---------------69
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