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Release Date: 15 July, 2003 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (13 total) |
Gator Reviews
A Reynolds Action-Comedy With A More Intense, Hard Focus
I thought going into this that it was going to be along the lines of a "Smoky And The Bandit" (classic!) comedy, but, while retaining a healthy dose of humor "Gator" is much more of an action movie, and one of the better ones at that.
Burt Reynold's character is a smalltime outlaw a la Bandit, this time making moonshine in the southern bayous rather than a trucker giving law enforcement officers fits breaking every traffic law and ordinance known to man. In the early going, when the movie is still in its comedy stages, they track him down (after some wild boat-racing action) with a proposition for Gator - end up in court facing a litany of charges that'll probably land him some serious jail time, or help them out going after the 'Really bad' bad guys. And thus it's off to infiltrate a group of criminals, one of them a friend from way back of Gator's, who are pretty much running things in a small city.
At first this bunch, though clearly operating quite a bit further on the other side of the law than Reynolds's character, some like relatively smalltimers, with the same brand of charisma the 'small-time crooks/but not really Bad guys' type characters in movies of a certain vein have. But things change as we see the true nature of these characters's activities - prostituting runaway girls, burning down the properties of city residents who refuse to pay extortion money, etc. And how does Gator take to this side of his old friend's gang? Just ask yourself what reaction Bandit or Reynolds's character in "Deliverance" would have had and there you go. The catch is, his allies on the cop side want to keep him calmed down - they want to bust the whole ring and don't want their operation jeopardized by their undercover man kicking the holy hell out of one or two thugs. Enter the tension; the comedy part's pretty much done now.
Burt Reynolds shine in this, and so do the actors playing the villains. Gator is helped along by not only the cops but some other likeable allies (including the wonderfully hot Lauren Hutton as Gator's love interest) and the bunch of them form a group that plays really well off each other. Although there are some fireworks-type action, the bulk of the action - surprisingly intense, by the way - is more head-on and very personal.
A well-rounded action gem that I really hope won't be forgotten as the years go by.
CAREFUL, DON'T LET THAT GATOR BITE YA ON YOUR GONADS(HA ha ha ha)
JERRY REED IS THE MAN! ALL I CAN SAY IS SO-----------N!!!!!!!!!
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