SealedCargo — 2 years ago(August 13, 2023 01:51 AM)

I am a Powers Booth fan… little story fitting today, he crossed the picket line by getting his award for Jim Jones and Hollywood hated him, but maverick action directors like Milius and Walter Hill still used him, and then guys like R. Rodriguez, who grew up loving Milius and Hill, used him too (but never that great)…
Anyhow, I like him in this movie; however, I get the feeling that when he shows up, we should have been getting to know the kids more…
Milius never seems completely comfortable dealing with teenagers; Swayze seems like a 27 year old, Charlie Sheen hardly speaks past the set-up, and only Tom Howell has any real fun: Aardvark and Danny and the politician's son were kind of left in the backdrop…
Especially when Milius feels his most comfortable in bringing a real man, Booth, to the movie… it's like with Booth he started making the movie he really wanted to make and the kids just kinda… watched and listened to his monologs, which I dug, but…
anyhow, I think everyone but Swayze and Howell (Outsider brothers) had really fleshed-out roles…
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