RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

TM-2 Loved this from my first screening. Great acting, great story and great action. Probably couldn't be made in Hollywood today because of the need to be politically correct. Thank god for the 70s.

sol- Having spent more than six years in a POW camp, a Vietnam War veteran finds adjusting to life back home challenging in this dramatic thriller co-written by Paul Schrader and starring William Devane. The film gets off to a strong start with Devane remaining cold and near emotionless to the very worst of news, having learnt to bottle up his emotions as a way of surviving the POW camp. In a memorable scene, he even tries to get someone to torture him like the Viet Cong tortured him, confessing that he has come to love the pain and rely on it. There is also a touching angle with Devane feeling a stranger around his preteen son who does not even remember him. This dramatic crux soon takes a backseat though as thugs break into his house, intending to rob him. While this leads to an extremely intense scene in which Devane does not even cave into the worst possible torture since he has learnt not to, the subsequent movie is never quite as interesting as it focuses on Devane's attempts to track down the thugs after they kill his family and then leave him for dead. The Vietnam War parable that results is fairly decent, with the thugs representing the whole Viet Cong who likewise caused him great pain over the years, however, his war veteran history is soon forgotten with the film too often feeling a 'Death Wish' variant. The final shoot-out is also arguably too brief (lasting less than five minutes) to truly feel cathartic, and yet Devane is mesmerising enough that the film is enticing from start to finish. It is hard to think of a more substantial film role that he has had.

dworldeater Rolling Thunder is a very high quality grindhouse revenge movie with tight direction, solid writing and first rate acting. Rolling Thunder is also the first in a wave of films to use post Vietnam America as a backdrop, predating First Blood by five years. I really like the film that was made, but if the original writer Paul Shrader had his way he would have taken Rolling Thunder in another direction. Even with Heywood Gould's re writes, Rolling Thunder remains a powerful, raw, brutal film. William Devane really brings it here as Major Charles Rane, a down on his luck Vietnam war vet and POW. He comes home to find his wife is in love with another man and his son dose'nt know him. It gets worst quick when Roscoe(from The Dukes Of Hazard) and his group of thugs murder his wife and son, grind up his hand in the garbage disposal and leave him for dead. Down, but not out Major Rane, now a cripple with a hook hand goes south of the border to Mexico for revenge. Scooping up his war buddy John Vohden(Tommy Lee Jones) they go to a whorehouse in Mexico for all out revenge and slaughter. I do agree with writer Paul Shrader that The Wild Bunch styled everyone dies in a blaze of gunfire ending that he wrote would have been a much more powerful ending to the film. Even so, Rolling Thunder still resonates and is no surprise that it is a cult classic. Great film.

Erik Nyberg Besides being listed by Tarantino as one of his favorites, I didn't know a lot about this movie before seeing it. Heck, I didn't even know Tommy Lee Jones had a role in it, but I'm glad he did, because it was actually one of the movie's few delights. You see, the 95 minutes spent watching this movie were some pretty wasted ones.Despite that harsh verdict, I don't think this movie's a terrible one. It's just irrelevant. Everything in it has been done so much better in similarly themed movies, both since and before.Rambo did the action far better. The sleazy grindhouse movies did the gore better (or at least they had a lot more of it). First-class films like Taxi Driver and Deer Hunter did the drama and story about the misfit 'Nam veteran way better. Actually, these first-class films also did the action better. And Rambo did the drama better than Rolling Thunder as well. Not to mention all these movies were a lot better entertainment and interesting pieces of cinema history. This film doesn't deliver anything unique besides mish-mashing shoot-outs, gore and story into a single unremarkable and forgettable movie.This could all be forgiven if it had the charm of a zero-budget exploitation film, but it doesn't even come close, being a far too professionally made film to ever be so bad it's good. It's just so bad it's boring.