Lot 1537 — Specialist (1994) [DVD]

0085391357421. New condition. DVD. Run time: 109 mins. Language: English. This over-the-top star vehicle for box office draws Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone went through a series of directors before landing in the hands of Luis Llosa. Stallone stars as Ray Quick a former CIA bomb expert now retired in Miami after an operation against a South American drug lord went horribly wrong resulting in the death of a child. Ray is coaxed out of retirement by May Munro (Stone) to help her get revenge on the powerful organized crime family -- headed up by Joe Leon (Rod Steiger) and his son Tomas (Eric Roberts) -- that killed her parents years before. In the meantime Ray s former partner Ned Trent (James Woods) is on the Leon family payroll and is seeking his own kind of revenge on Ray. As Ray executes Leon s soldiers one by one his attraction to May boils over into a steamy encounter in the shower a prelude to an explosive finale. Although director Llosa wisely kept his camera focused on his buff semi-clad stars and the film s spectacular effects the somewhat silly and incoherent plot resulted in a poor box office performance for The Specialist the third disappointment in a row for Stone. Karl Williams Rovi.