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Director:
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John Carpenter (screenplay)
John Carpenter (story)
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Release Date:
10 January 1986 (USA) more
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From the mind of John Carpenter comes the towering adventure that thunders across Los Angeles and explodes 30 stories above it!
Plot:
A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape... more | add synopsis
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Ho-Hum Super-Car Actioner. more (24 total)

Cast

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Tommy Lee Jones ... Quint

Linda Hamilton ... Nina

Robert Vaughn ... Ed Ryland
Richard Jaeckel ... Earl Windom
Lee Ving ... Marvin Ringer
Bubba Smith ... Johnson
Dan Shor ... Billy Lyons

William Sanderson ... Tyke Thayden
Keenan Wynn ... Iron John

Nick Cassavetes ... Luis
Richard Angarola ... Dr. Melato
Don Keith Opper ... Emile French (as Don Opper)

William Marquez ... Reynoso

David Pressman ... Kid at Grocery Store

Stanley DeSantis ... The Mover
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100 min
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Jeff Bridges, Don Johnson, Tom Berenger and Richard Dean Anderson were all considered for the lead role that eventually went to Tommy Lee Jones. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the owner of "Black Moon" is describing the car at The Betsy, he says the body is made from "Kelvar". The super-strong plastic is "Kevlar", not Kelvar. more
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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Ho-Hum Super-Car Actioner., 12 January 2007
3/10
Author: Space_Mafune from Newfoundland, Canada

Former high-tech thief turned government agent Sam Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) must find a means of retrieving a stolen super-car named the Black Moon, which has hidden inside of her a data tape the FBI desperately wants, from a skyscraper/fortress run by a criminal mastermind named Ryland (Robert Vaughn), who has an whole underground operation dedicated to the redistribution of stolen vehicles and is more than willing to resort to murder in order to protect himself and his organization. Quint's only link to the inside may be one of Ryland's own car thieves, a spirited young woman named Nina (played by Linda Hamilton), if Quint can convince her to help?

Never before have I witnessed such an outstanding cast in such a by the numbers action thriller, a movie that essentially owes its plot, believe it or not based on a story by John Carpenter, more to "Knight Rider" than anything else. Jones tries to add some humor to this one's always much too serious atmosphere but it's not enough to make this even the least bit memorable. Despite some good stunts arguably ahead of their time in some respects, everything just feels so routine and ho-hum here it's as though everyone was just hoping to get this turkey done and collect their paychecks as quickly as possible before moving on to other projects. Forgettable. Watch "Knight Rider" instead.

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