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I love this movie so much

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The ExterminatorVigilantes in the 1980s were everyday people who just lost faith in McGruff the Crime Dog.And while the lawful mascot isn't mentioned in this action movie, his presence is felt.POW John (Robert Ginty) tries to assimilate back in NYC when the Ghetto Ghouls break into where he works and kills his co-worker. Enraged he grabs a flamethrower and exacts revenge. Unsatisfied, John moves on to busting up the mafia and a child sex ring. Dubbed the Exterminator by the press, John is dogged by a determined detective (Christopher George). Dubbed a Death Wish doppelganger by critics on its released, this obvious nod to the seminal street vigilante blockbuster also had a second-rate sequel. Decades on and this alleged knockoff still holds its own with some pretty intense interrogation and death scenes that rival modern remakes.Furthermore, scorching thugs is a double win because it also feeds the neighbourhood. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Have you ever seen a man put in a huge grinders and made minced meat? You will see it here, is happening to a mobster who was pooping in a toilet and is kidnapped by the good guy. The good guy is John Eastland(Robert Ginty), an ex-Vietnam soldier, now a vigilante who is avenging his friend almost killed by a band of villains. You will see also a state senator from New Jersey who likes to rape underage boys with an incandescent iron, plus other... attractions. A special real attraction is Dr. Megan Stewart, played by Samantha Eggar, the beautiful from "The Collector"(1965), "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun"(1970) and "The Walking Stick"(1970). The cop played by Christopher George (Detective James Dalton) who is on the trail of the vigilante, is assassinated by a CIA sniper, because there are only two months until the elections... After that, in the final images we see the Twin Towers from New York(21 years before being transformed into a pile of rubble) and what is just a pathetic symbol of America(and this whole world), the Statue of Liberty.

This is a vigilante film about New York, part of a trend that was started by Death Wish in 1974. Basically the plot concerns a warehouse worker in New York who served in Vietnam named John Eastland whose best friend and fellow Vietnam veteran is paralysed by a gang of thugs when he disturbs them breaking into a warehouse. Swearing revenge, Eastland wipes out the gang members that paralysed his friend, then decides to take on a gangster who is extorting money from the warehouse( he is killed horrifically by being dropped into a meat mincer) and a child abuse gang that involves a senator and then wiping out a group of violent muggers who are part of the same gang that paralysed Eastland's best friend. While a bit cheaply made and unsettling in places, The Exterminator shows what a dirty, dangerous place New York was 35 years ago. Unlike now, where Times Square is a lively and safe pedestrianised square, in 1980 it was full of pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers and one scene shows Eastland in a squalid hotel used by prostitutes asking a prostitute who has been tortured by the child abuse gang for more information. Also Eastland's neighbourhood is full of semi derelict and dangerous tenement blocks that are often rat infested, the rats coming in useful when Eastland ties two members of the Ghetto Ghouls gang up and lets the rats attack them.Unlike now, and something the film alludes to constantly, NYC is adirty and crime ridden city and run by a corrupt and aloof city government which believes The Exterminator, as Eastland now styles himself, is a plot by their political opponents to bring them down. In the final part of a film, the mayor and the CIA decide to try and wipe out The Exterminator, but he manages to escape being shot and swims away to freedom from an abandoned ship where he has arranged a rendezvous with the detective that is investigating him.I quite like The Exterminator, even if many critics savaged it for being too violent, and think it was very much of its time when New York was a frightening place to live and the police and city government were ineffective and corrupt.

Vietnam veteran John Eastwood takes to vigilante action against assorted bad people following his buddie being hospitalised.This film gives us nothing which we haven't been given elsewhere (most notably in Death Wish, but change "daughter" to "buddie" and nobody needs to mention the word "plagiarism, do we?). What can I say? It is very violent, often very sadistically so, and it may well satisfy some viewers on that level. Personally, I found it unpleasant and not very well done, and it was not helped by the fact that Robert Ginty, playing protagonist Eastwood, is so chubby-cheeked and baby-faced that I simply couldn't take him seriously as the vicious cold-blooded vigilante he was playing.