Synopsis
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
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Cast
- Rutger HauerNick Parker
- Terry O'QuinnFrank Devereaux
- Brandon CallBilly Devereaux
- Charles CooperCobb
- Noble WillinghamMacCready
- Lisa BlountAnnie Winchester
- Meg FosterLynn Devereaux
- Sho KosugiThe Assassin
- Randall "Tex" CobbSlag
- Nick CassavetesLyle Pike
Recommendations
- 70
The Observer (UK)
Slick tongue-in-cheek thriller giving Rutger Hauer an unusually sympathetic role as a blinded Vietnam veteran who's spent 20 years in the jungle honing his other senses as well as his swordsmanship. [27 Oct 2002, p.9] - 63
Portland Oregonian
Clearly based on the Japanese film series about Zatoichi, the blind samurai, Blind Fury is also openly tongue-in-cheek. It is little but violence and gags, but the violence often is so cleverly and improbably staged that it's funny too. [19 Mar 1990, p.B08] - 60
Time Out
Hauer's Parker, shambling, shrewd and powerful, is humorous and appealing, and Noyce skilfully orchestrates a hilarious army of gurning baddies. It thunders along admirably, if rather unbelievably, and to counter the sickly moments with the cute kid (Call), there's plenty of pleasurable ass-kicking. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Tepid action picture that fails to live up to its interesting premise. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Blind Fury is a rehashing of movies you passed on the first time, like, uh, Over the Top. - 30
The Guardian
It was not clear to me why Phillip Noyce, the Australian director of the fine Backroads and Newsfront, should want to make this comedy thriller as his first American picture. But possibly his vision was impaired where the script was concerned. [12 Jul 1990] - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
In between the scenes of folks being impaled, cut in half with swords and blasted with shotguns are moments of light comedy, but these moments don't succeed in lightening up the picture but rather make it seem as if it were made by Martians with only the vaguest notion of human sensibilities. [16 Mar 1990, p.E6] - 25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It is not just that this action-comedy is a totally stupid, by-the-numbers collection of every action movie cliche ever coined. It is that the thing is so upsettingly mean-spirited and incorrigibly ugly, a movie that absolutely revels in sadism and constantly asks us to laugh at the most sordid and explicit acts of violence. [17 Mar 1990]
