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Actor: Blanche Baker, Lorenzo Clemons, Mary Cannon, Robert Davi, Victor ArgoBrand: Raw
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: T-1493
Studio: Trinity Home Ent
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- It's Schwarzenegger at his best in thisic action smash that pits a suspended FBI agent against the Mob. But once he's in, he can't get out and when a gorgeous mole is paid off to betray him, he becomes trapped in a deadly game where loyalty means nothing and there is only one person he can trust. Prepare to take no prisoners - Nobody gives him a Raw Deal. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&
DVD Reviews of Raw Deal
DVD Review: The best "early" Schwarzenegger film
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always seen the "first wave" of Schwarzenegger films ending with 1987's Predator (Widescreen Edition). In the following year, he turned a sharp corner and ventured into "buddy films" with Jim Belushi in Red Heat, a movie which had its moments but is far from "Academy" standards. At the time, he expressed a desire to broaden his horizons, to not be typecast as an "action hero," and this was admirable...but it also produced more than a few turkeys in his attempt to push the acting envelope.
If you consider Conan the Barbarian to be Schwarzenegger's first legit starring role, "Raw Deal" was his sixth film. His acting was still a work in progress (as was his ease with the English-speaking starring roles), but this is one of those movies that delivers a "Saturday afternoon / Saturday night" payoff every time. It's a "go-to" movie. There's mob violence and lots of things blowin' up real good (hat-tip to Joe Flaherty and the late, great John Candy).
The film also contains one of the greatest action film scenes of all, in which Arnold shoots out / kicks out the windshield of his big ol' Detroit gas-guzzler, pops in a cassette of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," and heads right into the thick of things, blowing bad guy after bad guy away. He drives straight into the gunfire, straight into the belly of the beast, and in the best action movie manner, walks away with hardly a scratch.
The mob guys are absolute cartoon mob guys, but that's half the fun. Anyone coming to this film looking for the work of a Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese is in for a real crash-landing of expectations. Actors Paul Shenar (as goon #1, "Paulo Rocca") and the great Robert Davi (as goon #2, "Max Keller") add the appropriate levels of henchmen smarm, and Sam Wanamaker's mob boss "Luigi Patrovita" is obviously cut from Gotti cloth.
Veteran actor Darren McGavin delivers a serviceable performance as "Chief Harry Shannon," but I've got to wonder whether his heart was really in this performance. I'd love to read an interview in which he discusses whether he enjoyed playing the role or not. I have my doubts. He never really "owns" the character.
You've seen movies labeled as "mindless fun," and this is certainly one of them, but in a 5-star toss some popcorn in the microwave kind of way.
Schwarzenegger's films became different in the 1990s, with a confidence-bordering-on-arrogance that comes from an actor having proven himself. In fact, it wasn't until the humbling defeat of 1993's The Last Action Hero that his interviews turned from self-promotion to an open admission that he, too, was capable of turning out a box office flop.
"Raw Deal" was the end of an era, but an era that still has legs, two decades later. "Raw Deal" is the real deal. Buy it.
Description of Raw Deal
Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: RBestsellers in DVD
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