A Review Of Blind Fury
If you’re in the mood for a good old fashioned eighties action flick and you’ve already seen everything with Arnold and Stallone a million times over, give Blind Fury a chance. They call Rutger Hauer the European Paul Newman, but Christopher Walken is probably a more accurate comparison. Both actors are capable of that icy coolness, where they can say sinister things that sound friendly and friendly things that sound sinister. Hauer brings that quality to his heroic role in Blind Fury, and the result is definitely one of our must see movie downloads of the eighties, especially if you’re talking about cool, funny action flicks.
The story follows Hauer as a Vietnam War veteran who was abandoned overseas by his old war buddy. He wound up being taken in by a South Vietnamese village, where he was taught how to defend himself with a samurai sword, in that he could no longer reasonably operate a firearm. He returns to the United States with sword in hand to find the person who left him behind in Vietnam. Interestingly, he’s not out for revenge, he’s out to forgive his old friend and make things right between the two of them.
Along the way he picks up the man’s son in Miami, Florida, and escorts him to meet his father in Las Vegas, Nevada, who has gotten into some trouble with the local gangsters and hoods. Their quest winds up being surprisingly heart warming and moving, which is nice, considering that it really didn’t need to deliver any more than some action and laughs.
Rutger Hauer is really something in this movie, playing all the action and laughs just right, and, the whole way, convincingly playing a blind man. Besides Hauer, the rest of the cast is pretty great, too. Look out for Randall Tex Cobb as “Slag”, the badguy’s right hand man, who meets a fitting end when he finally gets his come uppance at the end.
The movie really captures the best of what eighties action comedy films were all about. It’s funny, the action is inventive, imaginative, and exciting, and it finds a lot of room for great character development and good storytelling, so while there’s focus on humor and action, that’s not all there is to it. The story is actually somewhat touching.
Ninja legend Sho Kosugi shows up towards the end for really no reason whatsoever, except to get Sho Kosugi in there. He plays a hired sword who arrives in the US from Japan in order to fight Rutger Hauer just so we can get a great fight scene in there between Hauer and a true legend of Ninja themed action movies.
Two of the best badguys in the movie are the pair of redneck brothers who serve as the movie’s comic relief.
It’s too bad that they just don’t make movies like this anymore. The eighties were a great time for funny, exciting action flicks, and they just don’t make them like this anymore. Still, with movie downloads you can check out any of these movies you like, no matter how rare, and experience them for the first time and really enjoy on the flicks you’ve missed out on.
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