I found the rest of it somewhat disappointing--it wasn't quite what I expected. I thought it was going to be a buddy movie all the way through, with hunky William DeVane and super sexy Tommy Lee Jones teamed up together kicking major butt! However, they don't team up until the last 15 minutes of the movie for some hard-hitting action with plenty of shooting.
William DeVane's character, a Colonel, who has been a POW for seven years in Vietnam, returns home to his wife and the son he hasn't seen since he was a baby.
It is obvious his years in captivity and torture has had its effect on him. He is sort of unemotional, very un-talkative, almost robotic. While I don't doubt this is the result of what happened to the character--it doesn't work well in a film--where dialog is frequently needed in order to convey what the character is thinking or feeling.
Since what I had read about the plot of the film indicated that the Colonel is going to be avenging the brutal death of his wife and son-- I expected him and his wife to still be in love with each other. But no, that is not the case.
Wifey has taken up with a police officer named Cliff. While having an affair with a married woman is bad enough--having an affair with a married woman whose husband is a POW is about as low as you can scrape, in my opinion. However the Colonel was quite understanding of this.
As it turns out, the Colonel has his own little blonde groupie, who has worn his bracelet the entire time he was a POW. Instead of him and Tommy Lee Jones (who was also a POW at the same prison camp)immediately going after the bad guys--at first, we have to put up with him having Ms. Groupie accompany him on the hunt for the bad guys--and sit through their budding romantic relationship.
Since this was filmed in 1977--Tommy Lee Jones,as you can well imagine, was so sexy he just about melted my TV screen. To have been with him physically, in person, would have had to have been completely overwhelming. I don't know when I have seen a man so sexy.
There is a scene with Tommy Lee Jones and a hooker in Mexico that has a steamy moment. I wouldn't have minded playing her role!
The main problem with this film was not enough screen time for Tommy Lee Jones. For that reason I gave it 5 stars.
William DeVane's character, a Colonel, who has been a POW for seven years in Vietnam, returns home to his wife and the son he hasn't seen since he was a baby.
It is obvious his years in captivity and torture has had its effect on him. He is sort of unemotional, very un-talkative, almost robotic. While I don't doubt this is the result of what happened to the character--it doesn't work well in a film--where dialog is frequently needed in order to convey what the character is thinking or feeling.
Since what I had read about the plot of the film indicated that the Colonel is going to be avenging the brutal death of his wife and son-- I expected him and his wife to still be in love with each other. But no, that is not the case.
Wifey has taken up with a police officer named Cliff. While having an affair with a married woman is bad enough--having an affair with a married woman whose husband is a POW is about as low as you can scrape, in my opinion. However the Colonel was quite understanding of this.
As it turns out, the Colonel has his own little blonde groupie, who has worn his bracelet the entire time he was a POW. Instead of him and Tommy Lee Jones (who was also a POW at the same prison camp)immediately going after the bad guys--at first, we have to put up with him having Ms. Groupie accompany him on the hunt for the bad guys--and sit through their budding romantic relationship.
Since this was filmed in 1977--Tommy Lee Jones,as you can well imagine, was so sexy he just about melted my TV screen. To have been with him physically, in person, would have had to have been completely overwhelming. I don't know when I have seen a man so sexy.
There is a scene with Tommy Lee Jones and a hooker in Mexico that has a steamy moment. I wouldn't have minded playing her role!
The main problem with this film was not enough screen time for Tommy Lee Jones. For that reason I gave it 5 stars.