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Blind Fury (1990)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: BLIND FURY is based on the series of Japanese movies made during the 1960s that featured Zatoichi, a wandering blind swordfighter. Updated and Americanized by scriptwriter Charles Robert Carner and... BLIND FURY is based on the series of Japanese movies made during the 1960s that featured Zatoichi, a wandering blind swordfighter. Updated and Americanized by scriptwriter Charles Robert Carner and director Phillip Noyce, Zatoichi is now Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer), a soldier blinded in action in the Vietnam War and nursed back to health by Vietnamese villagers. Nick develops an acute sense of hearing and, in spite of his disability, becomes a master swordsman--all during the opening credits. BLIND FURY retains the mixture of humor, violence, and sentiment that characterized the original films. Left in charge of young Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call) after the death of his mother, Nick takes Billy across the United States by bus. However, the pair is menaced by overwhelming numbers of vicious thugs led by Slag (Randall "Tex" Cobb, who plays the bounty hunter in the Coen brothers' RAISING ARIZONA) on the journey. Nick, of course, handles these predicaments with casual skill, luck, good humor, and his trusty hidden samurai sword. [More]
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Lisa Blount
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster, Brandon Call, Nick Cassavetes
Director: Phillip Noyce
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Reviews for Blind Fury
the unacknowledged adaptation of the Zato Ichi films, which features Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman who wanders the roads of America, helps reunite a small boy with his father, and wastes more mob henchman than you can shake a white cane at.
Cool fight scenes that play up the blind aspect. Not much of a story, but a fun action movie.
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