An Overview Of The Movie Blind Fury
They call Rutger Hauer the European Paul Newman for his blue eyes, but the European Christopher Walken might be a little more accurate. Hauer is an actor equally adept at playing both heroes and villains, and brings a touch each to each. So when he plays a hero, there’s an odd, sinister air about it, and when he’s a villain, there’s a strangely likable quality there. Blind Fury is one of the classic action movie downloads for this reason, amongst others.
The story follows a Vietnam war veteran who was abandoned by his old buddy during a bad firefight. He was left behind and wound up going blind. He was taken in by a south Vietnamese village where he was taught to use a samurai sword to defend himself. He’s now returned to the United States and is seeking out the man who left him behind, not to take revenge, but to forgive his old friend and reconcile with him.
Along the way, he essentially adopts the man’s son for the week and takes him on a journey to reunite with his father. It’s sort of like Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, but done as an eighties action comedy in the US. It’s funny, exciting, and the blindness provides an interesting angle for the action. From the opening scene to the finale, the movie keeps coming up with interesting new ways to exploit his blindness.
Hauer is almost outclassed by the rest of the cast, including Randal Tex Cobb as Slag, the badguy’s right hand man, who lives up to the name, SLAG! Slag winds up meeting a fitting end that turns out to be one of the best in the history of action movies. In fact all of the badguys get a good come uppance sooner or later, and that’s really what helps to define a great action flick.
The movie really captures the best of what eighties action comedy films were all about. It’s funny, the action is inventive, imaginative, and exciting, and it finds a lot of room for great character development and good storytelling, so while there’s focus on humor and action, that’s not all there is to it. The story is actually somewhat touching.
Ninja legend Sho Kosugi shows up, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, as a hired sword just so we can have a really great fight scene between him and Hauer. There are really a lot of great hired badguys in the film, providing a lot of laughs and great fight scenes.
Two of the best badguys in the movie are the pair of redneck brothers who serve as the movie’s comic relief.
It really is too bad that they don’t really make movies like this anymore, but we can at least enjoy these movies with movie downloads. It’s not one of the most well known of the eighties action flicks, but it’s really one of the very best of the era. Funny, exciting, imaginative and fun.
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