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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616920560
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-03-22
Running Time: 105
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-11
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This smashing no-holds-barred adventure stars action legend Chuck Norris (Missing in Action) and Oscar® winner* Lou Gossett (An Officer and a Gentleman) as a pair of treasure-hunters with a knack for finding danger at every turn!After a long career of mishaps wrong turns and utter failures archaeological adventurers Max and Leo (Norris and Gossett) are ready to call it quits until a spunky blonde beauty with an ancient treasure map hires them to guide her into Central America to find Aztec gold. But as they draw closer to the priceless bounty they are unaware that a powerful vengeful spirit is tracking their every move and will stop at nothing to protect the sacred treasure!*1982: Supporting Actor An Officer and a GentlemanSystem Requirements: Running Time 105 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 027616920560 Manufacturer No: 1008022
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Summary: A REALLY GOOD MOVIE
Comment: Chuck Norris and Louis Gosset are great in this film. chuck and Louis play old friends who love to find treasure. Max (Norris) and Leo (Gosset)are at a bar thinking about calling it quits on treasure hunting anymore when this woman (Melody Anderson)walks into the bar looking for two men who are not scared of anything and love a challenge. so this woman is pointed to Max and Leo and she tells them about a map that will lead to treasure and it is dangerous. so they go and the aventure starts. the come backs between the three is funny. enjoy.
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Summary: Everything you expect.
Comment: This movie has intentional humour but also unintentional humour and they exist side-by-side quite happily. The action and special effects aren't bad for their time, and it is refreshing to know none of it is made by computer.
The storyline is wonderfully cliched, you could pretty much use this movie as a template for all treasure-hunting movies!
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Summary: One for all the family
Comment: Fun to watch, not the normal Chuck Norris film. One to watch overand over again.
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Summary: Not One of Norris' Best Efforts
Comment: Firewalker was meant to be a combination of Romancing The Stone and Lethal Weapon, and what it is instead is a horrible mismash that wastes the talents of two fine performers - one, a great action movie star (Chuck Norris) who knows how to be charming without going the full fledged comendy route, and a great actor (Louis Gossett, Jr.)whose desire to star in a potential blockbuster may have overwhelmed his judgment.
In Firewalker, Norris and Gossett play two adventurers that end up on a quest for lost treasure, and run afoul of an evil spirit who doesn't want the treasure to be taken. That's as good (or in this case, as bad) as it gets. It's not fun, or particularly excting, and while it might have seemed like a good idea to give Norris a hand at comedy, it doesn't work.
Firewalker is quite missable. Both actors have made many other movies that are a lot more entertaining.
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Summary: SHOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER
Comment: Chuck Norris and Lou Gossett Jr. teamed up to make this "Raiders of the Lost Ark" inspired buddy adventure film that unfortunately had a few too many thrills and laughs to make it anymore than a mediocre film. They play a pair of furtune hunters who are hired by a woman named Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) who has a map to a lost treasure. Their quest takes them to Central America where the requisite two-dimensional baddie named El Coyote (Sonny Landham) is also after the treasure and has magical powers to back him up. Even "Raiders" vet John Ryhs Davies pops up in a cameo.
Unfortunately Norris just looks to stiff when he is not punching someone's lights out and the problem is only made worse as he tries his hand at comedy and it all comes off as very forced. And while it tries its best, it has none of the sheer adventure of the Indiana Jones movies. The film was directed by veteran J. Lee Thompson who basically directed all of Charles Bronson's bad movies of the 1980's such as "Death Wish 4", "Murphy's law" and "10 to Midnight". Thompson seems to have been a poor choice to direct a comedy adventure film, especially since he also directed the even worse "King Solomon's Mines just one year earlier. But I guess he was one of those Golan-Globus, Cannon Films stable of directors so that's why he got the gig.
Melody Anderson was moderate eye-candy in the day but she quickly faded out of show business just a few years after she did this film. I don't think this film was the cause, though.
On the plus side the scenes and locations are nicely shot and it at least looks adventurous even if it's mostly window dressing. This is a good movie but it had the promise to be so much more with a better director and a better script.
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