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Audiences rate it 46 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,033 1990s action movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes10%
Audiences rate it 46 points higher than critics do.
1,499 audience votes
Key crew
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
- Luis LlosaDirector
- Alexandra SerosScreenplay
Cast
- Sylvester StalloneRay Quick
- Sharon StoneMay Munro
- James WoodsNed Trent
- Rod SteigerJoe Leon
- Eric RobertsTomas Leon
- Mario Ernesto SánchezCharlie
- Sergio Doré Jr.Strongarm
- Chase RandolphStan Munro
- Jeana BellAlice Munro
- Brittany Paige BouckYoung May
- Emilio Estefan Jr.Pianoplayer
- LaGaylia FrazierSinger #1
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or bookexplosivefistfightrevengeorganized crimeurban settingexplosives expertneo-noiraction hero