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Badly acted, written, and directed, Certain Fury provides a fair amount of unintentional laughs. Tatum is the 'bad' girl, Irene the 'good' girl gone bad. One of the funniest scenes had Tatum spitting in Peter Fonda's face. He responds by slashing her face (in unconvincing close-up) with his nail file. When she falls to the ground screaming, he blurts out to his hench-men, "Get this bleeding bitch off my boat!" If you like 'good bad films' then this one is for you. If you prefer quality...well then you've been warned.

Tatum O'Neal and Irene Cara end up in court together. When a shootout in the courtroom cause everyone to flee, Irene and Tatum inadvertently end up running from the bullets and the cops. Pretty fast paced action keeps this B-Movie humming along pretty good. Tatum and Irene believe it or not have good chemistry together. Tatum plays a hardened toughy pretty well and in my opinion makes this movie entertaining. A little far fetched (what Hollywood flick isn't?) but still enjoyable. See it uncut as a TV version will be heavily edited. Peter Fonda makes a cameo as a sleazebag. One thing I learned from this movie is that sewer gas is highly flammable? Who knew?

Never heard about this movie until today but it seems that 80s movies made by the likes of New World and other long forgotten about VHS fodder are finally being dumped onto streaming services. Movies that only until recently existed as video files ripped from grainy VHS and downloaded are now here in full HD.

This is yet another female clone of The Defiant Ones, a proto Thelma and Louse without the bad driving. We have Tatum O'Neil, a name I remember but not anything shes been in, and Irene Cara who was ridiculously pretty and not in enough stuff. Something to do with a lawsuit.. The story is that both girls end up in court by chance, and by further chance end up in court at the same time as two female gang members who are intent on shooting their way to freedom. Which is where the first shock of this movie appears, which is how violent and gory it is. This was a feature of many VHS movies, because they knew it would get people talking. However the level of violence is probably more severe than most movies today. The girls make a run for it and are pursued by the cops who think they were part of the shooting. What follows is typical 80's people on the run stuff, but with a heavily sleazy angle of violence against women and drugs. Its almost a woman in prison movie, just minus the prison.

Entertaining, but not if you want an easy watch.

As noted by other IMDb users here, "Certain Fury" is essentially an updating of the Sidney Poitier / Tony Curtis movie "The Defiant Ones", though changing the sex of the central characters as well as adding gratuitous exploitation material. Nothing really wrong with that idea, at least if you are as big a fan of exploitation movies as I am, but the end results are only partially successful.

The movie gets off to a great start, being swift and packing in much exploitation and other good stuff. Though after the first thirty or so minutes, the movie becomes greatly uneven. There is some good stuff to follow, but they are bright moments lost in a suddenly slowing storyline. The movie almost gets boring at times because of this. Also, the ending is kind of weak, written and directed in a way that seems to come out of a much more serious movie than this.

Is the movie worth seeing? Well, if you are a patient fan of B movie exploitation, and you can see the movie cheaply or for free, then you'll probably get a reasonable amount of enjoyment out of it. If not, you'll probably be in the title state long before the movie reaches the ending.

"Certain Fury" is grade-Z stuff in most departments (the low production values and the often very bad dialogue stand out), but Tatum O'Neal is engagingly tough and she makes the film worth watching all by herself. Irene Cara is awful, and the slashing scene is hilariously fake, but Tatum won me over, enough to give this film a ** rating.