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A little too old to be a father.........


I think what hurt some of the later day Bronson flicks were these little descrepancies that occured frequently during the 1980's J.Lee Thompson-Golan-Globus era. In this movie, Bronson not only plays a cop who probably should have retired about 10 years ago, but he has a 15 year old daughter as well.

Give me a break!!!!

The movie was 1989, Bronson was 67. Ok, maybe Bronson could pass for 55, but thats still a bit of a stretch because we all know Bronson's real age. I know movies are movies, but when filmmakers ignore these obvious things its like they're telling the audience that they're dumb. That ruins the mood for the rest of the movie.

This movie had real potential if they made it more dramatic instead of a dead-head 80's action flick. It's too bad this was really Charles Bronson's last movie, but I guess shoving a dildo up a guy's butt and making a pimp shallow a rolex is the way a real Hollywood tough-guy goes out.

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I didn't feel as if it was that unrealistic. I mean, men have no biological clock, and can keep fathering children for as long as women will have them. A lot of men have children when they're in their 40s and 50s.

I just figured Bronson's character in Kinjite had been wasting creeps 24/7 until he started to slow down a little in his 50s and managed to settle down and get married.

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I just figured Bronson's character in Kinjite had been wasting creeps 24/7 until he started to slow down a little in his 50s and managed to settle down and get married.

Hilarious. Good film, but they could put Broson in Battlefield Earth and it would've kicked ass too.

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I guess you're right.

Maybe I just can't stand the aspect that people have children late enough where you're not sure of what will happen first, a college graduation or a funeral for the parents.

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I think you're really reaching for reasons to complain here. First, although in real life Bronson was 67, there's no way he'd still be on the force at that age, and no one ever said how old he was. That being said, your perception that a man is incapable of producing a child in his late forties or early fifties (where in the movie did they mention his daughter's age, by the way?) is probably one of the more ignorant things I've read here. To claim the entire movie is "unrealistic" based on this only bolsters my opinion.

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I'm not saying is physically impossible to father children at 67, but don't you think it dumbs down the movie a little?

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Not necessarily. A girl friend of mine has a father who is his 70's now but she is just 24. That's a little extreme but it's not unusual for an older man to start a new family if he marries at a later age. Look at Frank Gifford, Charlie Chaplin, and Jerry Lewis for an example. Even Bronson's daughter with Jill Ireland, Zulieka (?), was a teenager at the time of this movie so he himself had a child in his later years. So like someone mentioned, men can literally have kids until they die since there are no biological clocks for men unlike women who usual are unable to have kids after their mid 40's.

Besides were talking about Bronson here, a 70's sex symbol for a lot of women so it ain't too unbelievable for him to be hitched to a younger dame.

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I understand it happens here and there, but when you have a certain mindframe of Bronson's character having daughters 25+ in movies from the 1970's and early 80's, then he has a 15 year old in 1989.....it kind of kills things.

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I understand where you're coming from, but again he's not the same character in each film. Here he's Lt. Crowe, not Paul Kersey, so his character could have had a daughter in his 50's and now she's a pre-teen while he's now in his 60's. So not comparing his character to other films and just accepting him on the basis of this role, it's still plausible.

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It's pretty common to have actors in their 50's and 60's playing active cops when in real life they'd probably be retired from the force and living off pensions, or at least at a desk job. You just kinda have to suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride, I guess.

Technically, he wasn't too old to be a father. Let's say his character is 55, his daughter's 15, so he was 40 when she was born. Not all that uncommon really for a man. I know a guy who's 64 and has two daughters who are 5 and 7. Men can father children well into their 60's and even into their 70's. It's just that most choose not to. But they're capable of doing so if they so choose.

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Ur stoopid

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Yeah cause its impossible for someone in their 50s or 60s to have children.

You're not as smart as you think.

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Larry King asked that you give him a call.

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When my paternal grandfather was 67, my father was 13.

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