4K Ultra HD Review Raw Deal (1986)
Rough Deal , 1986
Directed by John Irwin.
With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katherine Harrold, Robert Davey, Sam Wanamaker, Ed Lauter, Darren McGavin and Joe Regalbotto.
Summary:
A former FBI agent goes undercover with the Chicago mob after killing the son of an ex-boyfriend who is now the mayor of a small town.
The raw deal is an oddity in Arnold Schwarzenegger's career as he performed as a commando between 1985 and 1987, but the great man's reputation doesn't burn as much as it should. That's because Raw is a movie about a deal - a deal between Schwarzenegger and producer Dino De Laurentiis because the actor ran out of contract and De Laurentiis wanted more Conan movies - and it wasn't written with Austrian Oak in mind, which is the movie. A very obvious mistake.
Ernie plays Mark Kaminsky, a former FBI agent forced to retire after brutally beating and killing a suspect who assaulted a young girl. Kaminsky is now the sheriff of a small town where nothing much has happened and life seems to go by, his heavily drinking wife likes to remember when he got drunk, but one day he meets an old man. Friend and former FBI partner Harry Shannon (Darren McGavin) informs Kaminsky that his son Blair - also an agent - has been killed by the Chicago mob and wants Kaminsky to infiltrate the organization and take it down by killing locals. Luigi Petrovita (Sam Vanamer), who is being investigated by U.S. Attorney Marvin Baxter (Joe Regalbuto), forces Kaminsky to leave the FBI.
Kaminsky apologizes and fakes his own death with the guilty Joseph B. Brenner quickly contacts Petrova's underbosses, including chief executive Max Keller (Robert Davey), who Brenner suspects is not who he claims to be, and as it escalates situation, Brenner tries to prove his loyalty, which leads to bloodshed. Brenner/Kaminsky must choose between work and friend.
Raw Deal , a fairly straightforward gangster movie, struggles to replicate the formula set by last year's Commando , but when Ernie plays to his strengths and improves on an action-packed version of a movie that basically turns everyone inside out, it's Raw Deal n. “Don't do exactly the same thing. First, it's the plot. It's true he's not a very nice guy but he's an assistant and if he was the right actor in the film he could elevate the script to something dynamic and as it stands a 6' 2" bodybuilder with a German accent could sneak through the underworld the world of Chicago without suspicion, in just a few days, and we have to accept it without revealing who this guy is.
But once you lose sight of those little details, you start to notice other little details that probably wouldn't matter much if this movie had the energy and rhythm of Commando. Making Mark Kaminsky/Joseph B. Brenner charismatic is the right move - after all, this guy has to attract Robert Devin and potential love interest Katherine Harrold, so he has to be likable - and Ernie delivers an elaborate commando speech (!) in "The Coup". and One Law, so this is the original deal. She does the same, right?
Well, not really, the only bad line that anyone remembers from this movie is Kaminsky's drunk wife: "Don't drink and don't bake." And why didn't the police find the body when Kaminsky canceled his death? I don't pick up the phone. What will happen to his wife? As mentioned at the end, you still have doubts. And how can Harry bring Shannon Kaminsky back to the FBI after he's done classified and illegal work? With such logical inconsistencies, your inner voice will wake you up after the end of the movie.
But, despite these shortcomings, is the deal so terrible? Rate it like a Schwarzenegger movie and it's not good, only Conan the Destroyer surpasses it as the worst movie of the 80s , but it's not bad by 80s action movie standards. Too many familiar faces to scroll through IMDB to see what I saw - and it has Robert Davey, so there are some fast-paced credits in the 80s - plus a soundtrack of gunshots, explosions and the Rolling Stones (poor ape Martin Scorsese). . his effort and use of classic rock tracks at defining moments) and Ernie's Peak effortlessly fires large caliber guns so it gets the job done on this level, but it's a pretty flat and unremarkable experience, especially compared to Commando and The terminator. Come on. Very beautiful.
The image is upscaled to 4K and is somewhat inconsistent in contrast and brightness, with some scenes looking too dark and dull, while others are too harsh and colorful. Any red color will be visible, so a lot of teeth will look good, but depending on the lighting, the skin tones will be a little gray or very pink.
The extras come in the form of a short documentary on Arnie's rise to fame in Hollywood (which also appears on the new Red Sonja disc) and an interview with writer Dave Saunders about Raw Deal and how Arnie ended up in the works (taken from the previous Blu-ray release). ray), but for Xavi's collectible disc It is available in a special hardcover edition that looks very interesting (and very red).
Raw Deal is a decent average movie that has just enough guns and violence to put it on par with other major projects of the era, but nothing that puts it in the same league as Ernie's other 80s direction. It would be a good movie with a different actor, it could rise to something amazing with a different director.
However, Raw Deal is really a movie that only Ernie fans will enjoy, and while this version is an improvement over any of the older DVD releases, it's not a huge improvement over its predecessor. Blu-ray release, except that the opening credits are colored red to make it more attractive.
Flash Legend Level - Movie: ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★
Chris Ward
