Blind Fury [Blu-ray]

Director: Phillip Noyce, Philip Noyce Phillip Noyce

Overview

Rutger Hauer plays a blinded Vietnam vet who also happens to be an expert swordsman. Twenty years after the war, Hauer finds himself waist-deep in gangsters when he tries to help the son (Brandon Call) of an old army buddy. Along the way, he reforms an ex-comrade in arms (Terrance O'Quinn) who was responsible for the accident that blinded him. Based on a series of Japanese films about a blind samurai (released under the blanket title of Zatoichi).

Product Details

Release Date:	10/11/2022
UPC:	0738329260644
Original Release:	1989
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	4,253

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Rutger Hauer	Nick Parker
Brandon Call	Billy Devereaux
Terrance O'Quinn	Actor,Frank Devereaux
Lisa Blount	Annie Winchester
Randall "Tex" Cobb	Slag,Actor
Noble Willingham	MacCready
Meg Foster	Lynn Devereaux
Sho Kosugi	The Assassin,Actor
Rick Overton	Tector Pike
Nick Cassavetes	Lyle Pike
Charles Cooper	Cobb
Woody Watson	Crooked Miami Cop
Paul James Vasquez	Actor
Julia González	Actor
Weasel Forshaw	Popcorn
Roy Morgan	Six Pack
Tim Mateer	Snow
C.K. McFarland	Female Biker
Blue Deckert	Cornfield Killer
Red Mitchell	Cornfield Killer
Tiger Lee	Casino Bodyguard
Gene Skillen	Croupier
David Ellis	Ski Lodge Killer
Fred Lerner	Ski Lodge Killer
J. Robinson	Composer

Technical Credits

Charles Robert Carner

Larry Wilson

Ryozo Kasahara

Phillip Noyce	Director,Director
Charles Robert Carner	Screenwriter
Daniel Grodnik	Producer
Tim Matheson	Producer
David Madden	Executive Producer,Producer
Robert W. Cort	Executive Producer,Producer
Larry Wilson	Screenwriter
Ryozo Kasahara	Screenwriter
Dennis Madalone	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Phillip Noyce's tongue-in-cheek actioner, loosely inspired by Japan's popular Zatoichi series, is somewhat redeemed by the comic performance of Rutger Hauer as the blind swordsman. Despite the presumably limited demand for swordsmen in late 20th century America, Hauer's Vietnam vet happens to turn up to visit his former army buddy just when the latter's family is under attack. When he's forced to take the son cross-country to Reno in the search for his now-indentured friend, the film squeezes some humor out of his ability to handle a horde of well-armed thugs more easily than the recalcitrant kid. Often cast as the embodiment of evil, Hauer is surprisingly funny here, adopting a slack, helpless body language and an expression of beatific ignorance, suggesting that he has no idea that his flashing sword is mowing down a legion of bad guys. Of course, the one-joke script wears thin after awhile, but for those who can ignore the fortune-cookie aphorisms, it's a not unwelcome diversion.