The Specialist
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. From TMDB
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36 of 36 · most liked firstThe remake of the Vicki Sue Robinson disco classic (and for those that remember the Laura Branigan version...❤️) was featured in the Stallone/Sharon Stone movie The Specialist. The remake was Gloria's second #1 Club Play hit...which also came in remixes by Phillip Damien and David Morales.
unlabelledView post →Tonight: The Specialist A movie that didn’t bother to learn any of the ranks in the Army before writing a story about them.
unlabelledView post →John Barry scores THE SPECIALIST as though it was a great movie. And Rod Steiger is hilarious in it.
unlabelledView post →The Specialist (1994) The classic retro gangsta vibe 🏝️ #movie #retro #90s #stallone #sylvesterstallone #sharonstone
unlabelledView post →I take it you do mostly classic oldies? Not new ones like this (which I wrote under a pen name, same name as I used to write The Specialist which became Sylvester Stallone movie)
unlabelledView post →The otherwise-forgettable Stallone film THE SPECIALIST has an amazing score by the legendary John Barry. youtu.be/k78FJpmuFLs
unlabelledView post →James Woods is incredible in The Specialist, a shitty Sylvester Stallone movie
unlabelledView post →By the way, if I've piqued your curiosity about THE SPECIALIST (1994), which I'm not sure I could describe as "a good film" though I love it to bits, it also features a score by John Barry and (IIRC) Sylvester Stallone fondling Sharon Stone's stocking tops in a church.
unlabelledView post →‘Action movie subtexts: Why “The Specialist” should be reshot in French’… welcome to my TED talk…
unlabelledView post →Is it bad that I actually like Assassins? In like a "This movie is soooo ridiculous" kind of way? Also, I totally didn't know they wrote that. I always get it mixed up with "The Specialist".
unlabelledView post →The Specialist was the most disappointing film I’ve ever seen Why? It was the first 15 rated film I snuck into the cinema to see (I’d have been 12 or 13) I could not believe that the forbidden fruit of a “grown up” movie was so, so boring
unlabelledView post →Poor James, personally I think he truly peaked in the movie 'The Specialist'. He had average performances after that.
unlabelledView post →Closest was a movie called “The Specialist” - but the girl dies from specifically a car bomb and I watch the opening on YouTube it doesn’t really fit. BUT! Process of elimination: You now know it it NOT a Sylvester Stallone movie.
unlabelledView post →Thinking about movies where the score has had more staying power than the film. 'The Specialist' springs to mind.
unlabelledView post →Probably not worth the rewatch but Stallone had a scene with Sharon Stone in The Specialist which was as close to Arnold as I think he ever got in terms of sculpt and mass on film. And he was 48. 1/
unlabelledView post →True story: I was invited by a friend to watch this at his house on VHS sometime in ‘96 or thereabouts. I got the film title confused with The Specialist which came out the same year. Kept wondering when Stallone was going to show up.
unlabelledView post →The Specialist (1994) is one gorgeous movie!
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Specialist 480p (Prime)(UK) £4.99 (Action) (iMDB) 5.7 Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts, Mario Ernesto Sánchez
unlabelledView post →A regular series in which I face swap myself onto a random movie poster #17 - The Specialist (1994) #faceswap #randommovieposter #everydayifaceswapmyself
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Specialist 1080p (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Action) (iMDB) 5.7 Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts, Mario Ernesto Sánchez
unlabelledView post →The Specialist (1994) Director: Luis Llosa Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger Watch Review wp / wd
unlabelledView post →The Specialist (1994) The wife (then girlfriend) and I walked out of the theater after about 15 or 20 minutes of the movie starting. Never done that before or since. To this day, it doesn’t bother me that I have no idea where the story was going or how it ended.
unlabelledView post →The Specialist (1994) Director: Luis Llosa This is one of those wonderful situations where a couple of actors think they are in a great movie and one guy knows he is in a bad movie. So much unintentional comedy here that it becomes a fun watch. The poster is almost as funny as the movie.
unlabelledView post →"Introduce yourself with one food you refuse to eat, one film you'll never watch again and one song you can't stand" Food: Goat’s cheese. Self explanatory. Film: The Specialist (4 of us paid £16 to see a movie we wouldn’t rent on VHS for £2) Song: Under The Moon of Love by Showaddywaddy.
unlabelledView post →Especially proud of myself for correctly guessing which Stallone movie was featured in the music video for “Turn the Beat Around” (I’ve read about but never seen THE SPECIALIST; I just saw James Woods and thought really hard about it) Jene acts unimpressed, but she is also proud.
unlabelledView post →A regular series in which I face swap myself into a random movie #241 - The Specialist (1969) #faceswap #randommovie #everydayifaceswapmyself
unlabelledView post →Film and Television Studies graduate, Sonya S Khan was part of the brilliant team (as Archive Producer) that just won the Specialist Factual BAFTA for Atomic People (www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...) Congratulations to everyone at Minnow Films! We’re so proud of you, Sonya!
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Specialist (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(UK) for £3.99 Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts, Mario Ernesto Sánchez Genre: (Action) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1056079-sp...
unlabelledView post →On screen, Sánchez appeared in *Miami Vice*, *Invasion U.S.A.*, *The Specialist*, and portrayed a Colombian drug lord in *Only Fools and Horses*’ “Miami Twice” special. His career spanned stage, film, and television.
unlabelledView post →30 years ago today - Gloria Estefan landed a Top 5 hit on the US Adult Contemporary chart with a cover of the 1976 Vicki Sue Robinson Disco classic Turn The Beat Around, recorded for the soundtrack of the Sylvester Stallone / Sharon Stone action film The Specialist
unlabelledView post →30 years ago today - Gloria Estefan's remake of Vicki Sue Robinson's Disco classic Turn The Beat Around, recorded for the soundtrack of the Sylvester Stallone / Sharon Stone film The Specialist, hit #1 on the US Dance Club Play chart
unlabelledView post →You look like the character in the movie who's credited as just "The Specialist" (positive)
unlabelledView post →Went to #Largo tonight and got to see How Did This Get Made! The movie discussed was the 1991 "classic" (according to Jason) The Specialist starring Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone and James Woods. But according to the marketing material Woods was NOT one of the stars. The movie is so slow and awkward that I think you could just find clips of Woods and the bombings and be plenty covered for the podcast. #HDTGM #TheSpecialist
unlabelledView post →Decent action can't overcome thin characters plus Stallone and Stone didn't have much chemistry together. At the very least James Woods, once again, goes over-the-top as the villain so he was entertaining. 2.75/5
neutral · AI labelView post →Explosive comic book crime thriller with Stallone, Stone and Woods An ex-CIA demolitions expert (Sylvester Stallone) is hired by a grim beauty in Miami (Sharon Stone) to take out the mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a girl. Rod Steiger and Eric Roberts play high society gangsters while James Woods is on hand as the specialist’s rival, who works for the mob. "The Specialist" (1994) is a competent Stallone action flick set in Miami, albeit seriously comic booky with Woods really…
neutral · AI labelView post →A bomber makes for about as heroic a protagonist as you might expect. There is no reason to put yourself through the plodding pretentiousness of The Specialist unless you, like I was, are on some sort of quest to watch the entire 80s-90s Stallone filography. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
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