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In honor of Friday’s release of The Expendables, we’re taking a week-long look at the action films of Sir Sylvester Stallone – which is to say we’re skipping his comedies*. Out of respect.*
Title: The Specialist](The Specialist (1994) - Movie | Moviefone)
Setting: Present-day 1994 Miami
Our hero: Ray Quick (Sylvester Stallone), a former CIA assassin and explosives expert hired by May Munro (Sharon Stone) to kill the men who killed her parents
Our villain/s: Ned Trent (James Woods), Quick’s former partner and a current associate to drug lord Joe Leon (Rod Steiger) and his son, Tomas (Eric Roberts) – the same Tomas who killed May’s parents under Joe’s orders years earlier
The stakes: Good ol’ revengeFiled under: Action, Warner Brothers