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07/10/1994 Action, Thriller 1h 50m
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The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.

Overview

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

  1. Luis Llosa

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sylvester Stallone

    Ray Quick

  2. Sharon Stone

    May Munro

  3. James Woods

    Ned Trent

  4. Rod Steiger

    Joe Leon

  5. Eric Roberts

    Tomas Leon

  6. Mario Ernesto Sánchez

    Charlie

  7. Sergio Doré Jr.

    Strongarm

  8. Chase Randolph

    Stan Munro

  9. Jeana Bell

    Alice Munro

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2020-07-08
_**Explosive comic book crime thriller with Stallone, Stone and Woods**_

An ex-CIA demolitions expert (Sylvester Stallone) is hired by a grim beauty in Miami (Sharon Stone) to take out the mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a girl. Rod Steiger and Eric Roberts play high society gangsters while James Woods is on hand as the specialist’s rival, who works for the mob.

"The Specialist" (1994) is a competent Stallone action flick set in Miami, albeit seriously comic booky with Woods really hamming it up; Roberts too, to a lesser degree.

Stallone was 47 during shooting and ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$45,000,000.00

Revenue
$170,362,582.00

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