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Great Thanksgiving Day Film: Turkey w/ All the Trimmings

posted 17 years ago by christomacin
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A crippled spook, a trigger-happy good ole boy, and a Brooklyn cabbie. Together they took on the world and won!

Favorite dialouge: "Don't shoot the crazy kid running around in the wet suit!"

Second favorite diaglogue: Caan: "What are those outfits?", Young: "Some kind of ceremonial gowns." Caan: "Goofy looking things, aren't they"?

(I'm paraprasing since I have no desire to rewatch this film to get the dialogue exactly right."

This one's bad. The turkey's in the oven and it's not so well-done. 1/10 stars. Earns one star for good cinematography and about 20 seconds of good action courtesy of Mr. Peckinpah.

Gobble, gobble, gobble said Tom Turkey.

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[–] LatigoMeans 17 years ago

**********SPOILERS**********

I'm not sure myself after watching this recently. It starts off very promising with the Duvall-Caan chemistry and the 'agency' stuff and all, then it starts to really slow down. Caan's recuperation time was a bit overlong and when Duvall makes his earlier-than-epected exit it really left me with nothing.
Maybe because I am no fan of ninja/kung-fu actioners, even the climax was not particularly entertaining. For me anyways.

I am a fan of Peckinpah's films and more are deserving of the respect this one seems to garner. It just never seems to be what it could have been.

~LjM
Step on it! And don't spare the atoms!

[–] pbl1 17 years ago

saying that the killer elite is a turkey is an insult to turkeys.

What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?

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[–] wreckingcrew 15 years ago

I can't give this movie a rating because I didn't (COULDN'T!) watch it to the ending. It was the silly chopsocky fight scene at the airport that finally made me give up (I recently watched it for the first time on the MGM HD channel). Now, some of you may write and say that the movie picks up and gets better after this scene. Sorry, I'm not giving this movie a second chance - it's THAT bad.

[–] nobboffin-1 15 years ago

This was on MGM HD last night. The acting was the lamest I have seen in years. When compared to "The Wild Bunch", it's easy to see why Mr. Peckinpah lost his director's touch.

[–] mail-2775 15 years ago

Agreed, 100% correct.