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Originaltitel: Vigilante

1982
Not Rated
1 Std. 30 Min.

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B-Action Action Crime Thriller

Nachdem seine Frau und sein Sohn von Schlägern brutal ermordet wurden und ein Strafrechtssystem die Täter wieder auf die Straße setzt, wird ein Fabrikarbeiter zur Selbstjustiz, um ein gewiss... Alles lesenNachdem seine Frau und sein Sohn von Schlägern brutal ermordet wurden und ein Strafrechtssystem die Täter wieder auf die Straße setzt, wird ein Fabrikarbeiter zur Selbstjustiz, um ein gewisses Maß an blutiger Gerechtigkeit zu finden.Nachdem seine Frau und sein Sohn von Schlägern brutal ermordet wurden und ein Strafrechtssystem die Täter wieder auf die Straße setzt, wird ein Fabrikarbeiter zur Selbstjustiz, um ein gewisses Maß an blutiger Gerechtigkeit zu finden.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

4991

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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9Captain_Couth

Lustig's Homage to the Italian Revenge Flicks

Vigilante (1983) is a revenge flick in the style of 70's Italian Crime films (He even shot it in Scope). Robert Forester plays Marino, an average working joe who's family is attacked by an inner city street gang. When the justice system fails him, Marino can't take it anymore and with the help of his co-workers takes revenge on the street scum. Sophisticated trash from William Lustig (It looks and feels sleazy). The film has an all star cult film line up. Featuring Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Joe Spinell, Woody Strode, Carol Lynley, Frank Pesce and Rutyana Alda.

Highly Recommended.

Old school ultra violence, Lustig style.

8The-Mighty-Vindicator

A moving & motivational film with No Loose Ends

A rough, raw film with The Best opening scene/speech of all films I have seen. You gotta see it. Fred (with a manly beard) Williamson rebuking and motivating the apathetic and down-trodden souls. Man with a vision - a man of action.

The things I like about this movie are the raw realism - one can identify with the pain and suffering and initial reluctance on the part of the lead actor to join with the visionary vigilantes - until something happens to them personally.

The corruption and unrighteous judgments in the court system are legendary and this facet of life in America is not left out - to this film's credit and a rebuke to so many other movies that leave loose ends hanging around to do more damage.

A classic vigilante movie, actually better than Death Wish I think. Add it to your collection.

8Fella_shibby

Pretty entertaining with bloody shootouts and a pre parkour era foot chase.

I saw this for the first time recently n was pleasantly surprised. It is a good entertaining movie with a solid director n solid star cast. The film has bloody shootouts, a chase sequence much before the parkour craze, a car chase sequence, prison rape threats and a courtroom scene portraying the decay of the legal system. Law Abiding Citizen borrowed a lil bit from this movie too, the other one being Max Sydow's Night Visitor.

Infofreak

Lean, mean and nasty revenge thriller.

First off, yes, 'Vigilante' does bear some superficial resemblances to 'Death Wish'. But in other ways it is a different kind of animal, tougher, more realistic and believable. Directed by William Lustig in between his trash classic 'Maniac' and 'Maniac Cop', the movie greatly benefits from the strong performances of Robert Forster ('Medium Cool', 'Jackie Brown') and Fred Williamson ('Black Caesar'), two actors who unfortunately have generally been wasted in dull action movies and awful straight to video dreck. Forster displays dignity and depth of character as a working class Joe pushed to his limit, and Fred Williamson gives possibly his most impressive performance ever, as his buddy who shows him a way to get closure. Both Forster and Williamson are supported by an above average cast of character actors including Richard Bright and Joe Spinell (both of 'The Godfather' as well as countless other roles), and veteran Woody Strode. This is a lean, mean and nasty revenge thriller worth tracking down.

7danielcereto

The midnight A-team

Just watched this and I think this is an underrated movie. The cast is pretty good and the usual revenge story turns into a pretty well execution. On the other hand some plot holes or weird decisions of some characters. But overall a good revenge flick.

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Joe Spinell, who played the title character in William Lustig's Maniac, was cast in the small role of the corrupt lawyer Eisenberg. During the filming of the courtroom scene, Lustig recalled that Spinell's escalating alcohol and drug abuse was becoming a problem as Spinell would often show up late for filming and often drunk or stoned or both which slowed production. One morning, Spinell did not show up at all which led Lustig to shut down filming for half the day while his producer partner, Andrew Garroni, had to go looking for Spinell on the streets from various bars to hotels where he might be. The scene where Eisenberg arrives late in the courtroom after speaking with Prago was filmed in late afternoon on that day that Spinell did not show up that morning for filming.

Patzer
Prago's stunt driving double during the car chase is Caucasian but Prago is African-American.

Zitate
[first lines]
Nick: Hey, I don't know about you guys, but me... I've had it up to here. There are some 40-odd homicides a day on our streets. There are over two million illegal guns in this city. Man, that's enough guns to invade a whole damn country with. They shoot a cop in our city without thinking twice about it. Aw, come on. You guys ride the subway. How much more of this grief are we gonna stand for? How many more locks we gotta put on our goddamn doors? Now, we ain't got the police, the prosecutors, the courts or the prisons. I mean, it's over. The books don't balance. We are a statistic. Now, I'm tellin' ya, when you can't go to the corner store and buy a pack of cigarettes after dark... because you know the punks and scum are out there on the streets when the sun goes down, and our own government can't protect its own people, then I say this, pal: you got a moral obligation, the right of self-preservation. Now, you can run, you can hide, or you can start to live like human beings again. This is our Waterloo, baby! You want your city back? You gotta take it. Dig it? Take it!

Alternative Versionen
The film was cut by MPAA before the film was released in 1983, for graphic violence and in particular the pier scene where crooked politician and his lookout are killed with blood splatter lasting a bit longer and also the scene where the two patrol cops in their car are ambushed and killed underneath the underpass which filled with more blood splatter. This is the version that appeared on home video on the Vestron Home Video label and cable television.

Verbindungen
Featured in Assassin(s) (1997)

Soundtracks
Vigilante
(Willie Colón (as Willie Colon))
Arranged by Hector Garrido
Produced by Willie Colón (as Willie Colon)
Executive Producer Jerry Masucci