Trailer—One Tough Bastard

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I have always seen this movie advertised while watching other movies, and I have always been curious about it. So I ordered it online and watched it on memorial day. And I have to say that it was pretty good. One man's justice is about a man who seeks revenge for the murders of his wife and little girl, but this is not your ordinary hero, he is an army colonel who has fighting moves that seem more real then your average karate moves. The fighting in this movie seemed more real to me then other fighting movies, I felt it was actual hand to hand combat. The story is good, a man takes matters into his own hands and dishes out some but kicking action, along the way he discovers that a shady Cop is behind all of his troubles. I enjoyed watching this movie, but I'm surprised at how people give this low ratings.it was made back in the 90's and what they made was pretty good the actors in it do a great job and Brian Bosworth hit's it off as the main hero. I have never heard of Brian Bosworth before and this is the first movie I have seen him in, and he did an excellent job. The villain was pretty good Bruce Payne does great job as a dark cop. This movie gets you excited with all the action, but the reason I give it a 9 is because I felt it should have had more action, more fighting. Because it was awesome. You also feel for the man as he loses his family, and you cheer him on as he kicks butt and brings justice. One Man's Justice is a great movie, watch it and if your an action buff like I am you will like it. 9/10 for One Man's Justice

***SPOILERS*** The usual 1990's action revenge flick made a bit more interesting with Brian "Boz" Bonsworth staring in it as tough but sensitive in that he feels that killing is bad, but someone's got to do it, US Army drill Sergent and martial arts expert John North. A dude that you don't mess around with; especially with those close to him in that's what a group of in house terrorist arms dealers do and end up paying for it big time. Lead by the guy with a ring in his nose dirty Federal Agent Karl Savak played by Bruce Payne who looks more like the famous, with his Samson or lion like mane, Fabio then a movie bad guy who are out to get the latest US military weaponry and sell it to this highest bidder regardless to who he's selling them to. Lead by one of Savak's goons the scuzzy looking Marcus, Jeff Kober, that while robbing a US Army supply truck killed North's wife and kidnapped his 6 year old daughter who later died from her wounds. North himself was badly wounded trying to negotiate their release soon, after two months recovers from his wounds, which to him were nothing but a few bee stings, and is out for revenge. Even though he's really against violence in this case he makes an exception and by the time the movie is over North ends up wiping out both Savak's as well as his rival Dexter Kane's, M.C Hammer, drug and weapon trafficking rings. ***SPOILERS*** despite trying to show some sensitivity in his role as tough Sgt. North The "Boz" only excels in the action scenes that he's in which make the film worth watching in the first place. The "Boz" or Sgt. North is also given a young street-wise sidekick 12 year old Mikey Adams, DeJuan Guy,who he tries to straighten out in keeping him from becoming a future gang banger. But his actions, that are anything but peaceful, doesn't help any is showing Mikey how to change his mind. It's in his final slug fest with Savak that North/The Boz pulls his punches in not trying to do him in just for the sake of Mikey-whom Savak is holding hostage- and almost gets killed by doing it. But Savak saves the day for North in his eagerness to finish him off, by pushing him off a 20 story building, and ends up doing himself in instead.

Don't hate me and I apologize for riffing off a poem that was said a few weeks ago when POTUS Biden was inaugurated. The German title of this movie is "One Man's justice" so I obviously could not resist going down that path (of revenge) - kind of like our main character here. This is as by the numbers as it gets. Something bad happens to our main character (actually to his wife and his family as the description ominously says) and he goes on the war path. Good thing he is a military man ... well good for him, bad for the ... bad guys. Overall quite predictable B-movie action nonsense from the 90s ... I've seen worse, but also a lot better

Woow, the early 90's.. Martial arts action films were more popular than ever and cinema and especially video was dominated by real macho action stars like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Jeff Wincott, Lorenzo Lamas and Jeff Speakman. It was a great era and after the successful "Stone Cold" former NFL star Brian Bosworth starred in another excellent action film "One Tough Bastard" (aka One Man's Justice). With good fight scenes, an interesting story and well played characters we have a better than usual action film. Bosworth certainly has charisma like Van Damme and shows he really can act. A movie is as good as his villain and here we have MC Hammer (!!) AND Bruce Payne. Payne will always be known as the criminal mind Charles Rane in Wesley Snipes' "Passenger 57" but as Agent Karl Savak this is Payne at his best: Over the top arrogant and very entertaining to watch. Also look out for Robert La Sardo, at that time he played in similar films like "Hard To Kill, "Out For Justice" and "Last Man Standing" More recently, he made the horror film "Parlor". Too bad Bosworth only starred in 2 good films. "Black Out" was flawed and "Virus" and "Back In Business" were awful. But that's not his fault: after 1996 the martial arts era dried up. Van Damme and Seagal were forever doomed to star in cheaper home video releases and we never again saw classics like "Hard Target", "Under Siege", "TimeCop" or "Marked for Death". It even took 12 years before another "Die Hard" film saw the light of day.. Ooh, I really miss the good old days..

John North is a military instructor with a child he adores. When his wife and child accidentally become witnesses to a crime, they are murdered in cold blood. John North has one wish...revenge! OK, there is a bit more to it than that, but I won't give it away. "One Man's Justice" (or "One Tough Bastard" as its known as in the UK) is a well paced action movie with enough twists and creativity to hold your interest until the end. Visually speaking, director Kurt Wimmer doesn't have a particularly interesting eye, but he is talented enough to provide us with well choreographed fight scenes and effective, if slightly overdone performances. Bruce Payne reprises his role from "Passenger 57" here, albeit with an American accent. His performance borders on the camp, but it works. He IS A BAD GUY! At least, he wholly convinced me. Brian Bosworth is great too as the all American family man, who'll kick your ass to high hell if you ever cross him. The casting is perfect. Keep in mind, it's a B Movie, but it's thoroughly enjoyable. It reminds me of 80's bliss such as "Commando". Fans of action movies should add this to their collection.

One Man's Justice is actually four stories, all of which are in conflict with one another. First, there's the story of a corrupt FBI agent. Then there's the story of an FBI agent who's so obsessed with taking down a drug lord he's willing to commit murder. The one FBI agent happens also to be the other FBI agent, so already we're in a muddle. Then of course we have to give our star, Brian Bosworth, something to do, so we get a third story about a vet who's out for revenge for the murder of his family. But wait, we haven't touched all the sensitivity bases yet, we gotta have a kid in there somewhere, so we get a fourth story about a 12 year old boy who's thinking about turning gangsta and just needs a role model - like Bosworth (?!) - to set him straight. There are all sorts of silly flaws throughout the film - towards the end, the hero chases the villain up a flight of stairs but somehow winds up on the roof of a different building from that of the villain - and one could have some fun discussing these. But with plot elements as confusing as we have here, who really cares? And although most of the action scenes are fairly good (with the exception of the lamest car/bike chase I've ever seen), since we don't really know what's going on or why we should care, even these are wasted. Save yourself the trouble of taking this out of the DVD player - don't bother putting it in.

I haven't made it all the way through this movie yet, but I have to say that this is one of the best terrible movies I have ever seen. It's an almost standard "good guy vs. cop gone bad" story, but the level of "bad" that the cop has going for himself is ridiculous. The bad guy is so bad that in the first scene that I saw him in he shoots up a room full of drug dealers, then someone else comes in to shoot him and he shoots them too. Blood all over the place. Again, standard fair for a movie like this. The best scene in this movie was where the bad guy is talking to an informant while holding an ice cream cone. The informant doesn't give him the information that he wanted so out of nowhere the bad guy kicks him in the crotch so hard the informant throws up. I hadn't really been paying attention to the movie up until this point, and maybe it says something about my generation, but I couldn't stop laughing at that. It's like the script writers went "OK, he's bad sure, we've shown him smuggling drugs and shooting people and being in general a terrible person, but what can we do to make it clear that this is the bad guy? I know! Let's have him kick a guy in the crotch really hard! BRILLIANT!" Of course, the other possibility is that the actor was a method actor and this was an improved action on his part. If so, that is the most brilliant director in the world to allow it to be kept in, since that's not what's happening, it's still a really odd action movie.