Blind Fury (1989)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.8/10   

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Escritores (WGA):

Ryozo Kasahara (earlier screenplay)
Charles Robert Carner (screen story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 marzo 1990 (USA)

Género:

Acción

Frase comercial:

He may be blind but he don't need no dog.

Plot:

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Plot Keywords:

Vietnam | Casino | Humor | Fall Down | B Movie

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Not As Good As I Remember, But Still..........

Reparto

Rutger Hauer	...	Nick Parker
Terry O'Quinn	...	Frank Devereaux (as Terrance O'Quinn)
Brandon Call	...	Billy Devereaux
Noble Willingham	...	MacCready
Lisa Blount	...	Annie Winchester
Nick Cassavetes	...	Lyle Pike
Rick Overton	...	Tector Pike
Randall 'Tex' Cobb	...	Slag
Charles Cooper	...	Cobb
Meg Foster	...	Lynn Devereaux
Shô Kosugi	...	The Assassin (as Sho Kosugi)
Paul James Vasquez	...	Gang Leader
Julia González	...	Latin Girl (as Julia Gonzales)
Woody Watson	...	Crooked Miami Cop #1
Alex Morris	...	Crooked Miami Cop #2

También conocida como:

Furia ciega (Spain) [es]

Duración:

86 min | West Germany:85 min (cut version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-16 (cut) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) | Netherlands:12 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 (cut) | West Germany:18 | Iceland:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Australia

Compañía:

TriStar Pictures

Trivialidades:

The characters Lyle Pike and Tector Pike were named after three characters from The Wild Bunch (1969): Lyle and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson, Warren Oates) and Pike Bishop (William Holden).

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: Obvious manipulation of the film speed during many of the fight sequences.

Citas:

[Nick is driving and bumps into another car]
Other driver: Are you blind?
Nick Parker: Yeah. What's your excuse?

Conexiones de Película:

References First Blood (1982)

Not As Good As I Remember, But Still..........

BLIND FURY is one of those guilty pleasure films. The late Chicago film critic Gene Siskel cited it as such during a broadcast of the show he co-hosted with Roger Ebert several years ago. It is not a great film, but has real moments of warmth and humor that are hard to ignore. It's difficult to explain, but what could have been just another vapid action film, is fleshed out by good performances, a self effacing sense of humor, and solid direction.

During the opening credits, we meet Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer). Having been blinded during a firefight in Viet Nam, he is taken in by a local hamlet and nursed back to health. The villagers also teach Nick the art of the sword, we get several scenes of his progress in which he becomes a master. Jump ahead twenty years, as Nick wanders down a country road, walking stick in hand. He is on his way to visit an old friend from the war. After a silly scene involving switched hot sauce, Nick arrives to find that his friend, Frank Devereaux (Terry O'Quinn) does not live there anymore, having left for Reno. Well, Nick meets Frank's wife and son Billy (Brandon Call). Enter Slag (the Randall 'Tex' Cobb), who has come to kidnap Frank's son, to force Frank into making designer drugs, so that an evil Reno casino owner can pay off his debts. Anyway, after a especially violent debacle, Nick is sworn to protect Billy, and off they go to Reno to rescue Frank.

Admittedly, BLIND FURY is plot heavy, and a lesser film would have sunk under the weight. But the film never gets overly involved with the story, never really takes it to seriously. This is director Phillip Noyce's follow up to DEAD CALM, a tense thriller that put him on the map (he would go on to helm PATRIOT GAMES, SLIVER, THE SAINT). It is a campy ode to samurai pictures and westerns, war movies and ninja chop-em-ups. Noyce sets the right tone and keeps the action moving. Observe the scene, near the end of the film: there is a tense moment when Billy throws a sword to Nick. The sword sails in the air, in slow motion, the music builds and the sword slips right through Nick's hands. It is a wonderfully funny moment.

Another important aspect is the character of Nick Parker. As played by Rutger Hauer, Nick is a simple man, not a super hero. He reacts through instinct to the situations he finds himself in, and uses mostly evasive techniques (similar to Jackie Chan), to defend himself. Hauer does a good job blending the realities of blindness with the Hollywood clichés, which makes scenes in which he drives down one-way streets, and the like, very entertaining. The film makers also keep the violence in a backlit, comic book style, never becoming overtly graphic (the antithesis of something like KILL BILL, where the characters dance through geysers of arterial spray). BLIND FURY is an enigma, it is not wacky enough to be considered cult, it does not deal with important subject matter, yet it is still somehow affecting. It will be cast into the discount bins at your local mall, left to languish in obscurity. But for those who will give it a chance, you may be surprised by this standard action fare raised to a higher level by a talented cast and crew. 8/10.