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Ha ha, I really had fun watching this movie. Showcased on the great MST3K, "Final Justice" is about a chubby pig-faced sheriff named Geronimo (pronounced "Heronimo". Go figure!!), who has a penchant for using his six-shooters to solve his problems and a love for milk. Geronimo is forced to extradite a crybaby Italian hood back to Italy, but am airline error forces our hero(?) to make an abrupt stop to the small island of Malta, where all sorts of trouble erupts for Sheriff Porky, I mean Geronimo (Hee hee!).



And that's basically the sum of the whole movie. It's just a continous chain of scenes where Geronimo gets into several 10to 15 minute chases, lies in a cell bed and gets up from it about 150 times, gets involved in the saddest bar-fight in all of Cinema history, and drinks milk by the gallons! If that's not enough, the dialogue is ludricous as well, with Geronimo and the hood throwing "You sonuva...!!! at each other in rapid succession. Plus, there's the Ellen Bennes lookalike who accompanies the hapless and frequently hungry Texas sheriff, and there's also the bad-tempered agent Wilson (Bill McKinney of "Bronco Billy") and the thickly accented Malta cop Misfu.



Oh man, "Final Justice" must be the worst excuse of an action movie ever made. Jeez, "Stop or My Mom will Shoot!" has better production values than this turd. And what's the big idea of using Joe Don Baker as the main star??! It would have been better if they used somebody like Randy Quaid or Porter Wagner as the sheriff. At least those two can act!!

"12 Angry Men '97" is one of the few examples that a remake can be just as great as the original. This version of the 1957 drama is awesome. It had the same tension and verbal action as its predessor, but with more familiar characters and even color! Jack Lemmon replaces Henry Fonda as the good juror #8, the late great George C. Scott succeeds Lee J. Cobb as the hate-filled juror #3, and Mykelti Williamson takes a really good turn as the nasty juror #10 (he's sure as hell not looking for "shrimp" in this flick, if you know what I mean! And check out his cool hat! He looks like a younger Jim Brown). Each member of this jury take their tolls as they all argue over the life of a teen who is accused of murdering his father with switchblade. And each of them would like to leave the stuffy jury room!



Unlike the original, "12 Angry Men '97" is more modernized; for example, instead of electric fans, an air conditioner cools down the hot temperature of the room, and the jury isn't an all-white ensemble, but a multi-ethnic group. That's why I like this version better because there isn't a lot of racial boundaries to go over here, unlike in the original.

Undoubtedly a true classic, "12 Angry Men" is one of the best dramas ever filmed. In this movie, everybody can feel the tension, not just by the jurors themselves, but the viewers as well. Henry Fonda does a great job as the good-hearted juror #8, and Lee J. Cobb is equally great as the bad-tempered eight juror. As juror 8 is trying his best to find the reasonable doubt to spring off the young defendent accused of murder off the guilty seat, juror 3 and a few other jurors want to see the kid hang.



"12 Angry Men" is practically my favorite old movie (I like a lot of new stuff), because even though its atmosphere is very old-school, its got the same dramatic intensity found in current dramas.