by Starmaker Entertainment
Sales Rank: 40175
Price: $5.99
The 2005 video release of The "Exterminator" the Digitally Remastered Director's Cut from Tango Entertainment is probably the best this film will ever look. The print from Tango is decent but still contains debris, scratches and other imperfections despite other reviewers claiming its near perfect. They could have done a little more with the sound levels because the sound does fluctuate throughout the movie. This version is a bare bones release from Tango Entertainment and there aren't any bonus features, commentaries or extras at all. Overall this film is four star entertainment for fans of the genre and hopefully one of the big studios will give this film the DVD release it truly deserves. I'd love to see a two disc 30th Anniversary release filled with tons of extras. Having said all that I haven't seen the "Exterminator" since I was a teenager and somehow the opening scene has stuck with me for 28 years. The "Exterminator" is a low budget action film filled with scenes of pure brutality. Fans of this 1980 classic revenge film will be happy to know that this Director's Cut is the rated (R) version with all the blood and violence that made this film so memorable. Former Vietnam vet John Eastland played by (Robert Ginty) is driven to revenge when his best friend and Vietnam buddy is brutally beaten by a New York street gang and left to die. After seeing his friend lying helpless in the hospital Eastland declares war on the gang who savagely beat his friend and any other lowlife street punk or criminal he can get his hands on. Soon the revenge and killing become so easy for John Eastland he realizes that the Gangs of New York, its Police force as well as the C.I.A are all out to get him. Can John Eastland continue to carry out his one man brand of justice or will the Exterminator's flame be snuffed out! You'll have to buy you're own copy to see how it ends.
Viewer Reviews Saddem got a lot of his most evil ideas from this movie, such as lowering people who talked trash about him into a meat grinder...legs first for maximum effect.
