O Vingador

Burt Reynolds is the lead man in a team of mercenaries being run by the CIA. Sent in to get a fifty-million-dollar maguffin, they make a lot of things go boom, and most of them wind up dead. Not Reynolds and Matt Battaglia. Battaglia decides he wants to retire. He takes half of the maguffin and disappears. Reynolds realizes his bosses want him dead too. He takes his half of the maguffin anf disappears, and builds a team of private mercenaries. A few years later, Reynolds shows up and demands his half of the maguffin. Battaglia says he destroyed it. Reynolds goes around killing various corrupt government officials, and takes Battaglia's girl friend, Krista Allen hostage.

It's a fine movie if you want to watch things go boom, and Reynolds reciting his lines adequately, if you can put up with Harry Mafredini's dumb score. For a good actor, Reynolds made a lot of bad movies, and turned down a lot of good ones. I suppose it was based on the size of the check. This one clearly was large enough. It never had a theatrical release.

This is a film worthy of having on in the background, save that it would be incomprehensible in those circumstances. The Acting is abysmal, especially from those 'on the hill' (who all appear to have been reading the script from a document a little too far out of comfortable view!) It is a modestly passable action film, with the main star too old for the part he is playing.

I have had better evenings entertainment when too ill to watch anything!

The producers think that just by adding an on-screen tag that the action is in , for instance, Bosnia, is sufficient to set a background that is obviously nowhere near the named location.

Even the 'love interests' are wholly unbelievable!

Not a terribly good film at all.

In Humphrey Bogart's style,Burt Reynolds interprets a cinic and malevolent anti-hero.His screen presence helps to elevate the film's landing-place,differing it from the genre's vulgarity.The movie's plot is sufficient simple,and the characters are built in a mediocre way.However,director Russel Solberg bets on the action scenes,and he perfected them .The Burt Reynolds' team disastrous mission,at the beginning of the movie,is filled with supercharged shootings and explosions.The film achieves its principal aim,that is to make people have fun,and Burt Reynolds interprets his character in a delicious form.The public ends up wishing that he will escape with the gizmo and have all the money,even knowing that he doesn't worth nothing.Matt Battaglia also strives to offer a hero with credibility,who finds himself tied into the dilemma of running away from the past or facing his deadly rival from the old times.The final shooting,the helicopter crash and the terrorist attempt to the federal building are worthy of prominence.Stu Segall,a producer with tradition on television series,didn't disappoint,and conducted with efficiency a good action movie that,if suffers for its simple and weak plot,gets right in having chosen Burt Reynolds for the leading role and in not saving efforts by doing the action scenes.

I'm a big fan of Burt Reynolds and his performance and presence is the best thing about this otherwise run of the mill cheap action flick. For action fans there is quite a bit of gunplay, explosions and hand to hand fighting. It wasn't done well enough to make up for the film's other shortcomings. This was pretty poorly written and with the exception of Burt, really poorly acted. Raven is nothing special, but actors need to work and I'm sure it got Burt a paycheck.

what should we do with a movie like this? suspense? no. good acting? no. funny? no. a beautiful supporting actress? ahhh. there we are. krista allen is definitely an eye candy. but if you really wanna see her nude, then check out the "emmanuelle in space"-series. if you don´t care about her at all, then there´s no real reason to watch this. I mean, it´s not that bad. pyrotechnics, guns, muscles, sweat and a twist at the end - but everything´s quite ordinary. "raven team" (german TV title) is entertaining - nothing more, nothing less. you won´t remember that much after you watched it.