Alicia I love this movie so much

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

dctassa Typical 80's action movie. Bad guys shouldn't have killed Malone's love interest. He was leaving town. Had to come back and kill all of the bad guys. Death by hay bale was a new one for me. The Madrid character was a kind of parody of creepy bad guys and got his just deserts in the end. Also includes a crooked small time sheriff.Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes. Nice scenery and several nice explosions (I don't blame Malone for turning back to look at the last one).The Alfred E Neuman signature on the CIA card shown at the start of the credits was pure genius.Burt's hair piece should have received an Oscar...

gavin6942 Ex-CIA hit-man running from his past (Richard Malone, played by Burt Reynolds) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that is resisting their control.Reynolds is a smooth pimp, even kissing a young girl in front of her father. I mean, really, who has the balls to do that? Only Reynolds. And why not, when you can go around and beat people up -- or kill them -- without the police being able to stop you? An odd mystery: at one point, Malone's birth date is given as February 14, 1941. I wonder if this date was chosen for any particular reason. This is not Reynolds' birthday, and in fact would make Malone a few years younger than Reynolds...

jessegehrig Bodies consuming other bodies, this is a Burt Reynolds action movie. That is not Burt's real hair that is a rug. This movie features automobiles and the sad organisms that pilot these machines. Several automobiles are destroyed in the making of Malone plus probably a bicycle. Actors were paid in Earth currency to realistically portray not only legitimate human emotions but actual people as well. A modern ape, humans as they call themselves, struggled to write a screenplay and in time that human was rewarded for it's struggle with rectangular shaped pieces of paper. As an 80's action movie Malone is good, classic gun violence and gore mixed with coke-inspired plot/production value. Mr. Reynolds's hair piece is outstanding, not only does it pass for his real hair but it lends a certain degree of gravitas to Burt's performance, that this hair piece receives no billing what so ever in the credits is offensive and outrageous.

Robert J. Maxwell Burt Reynolds is an ex CIA hit man who coincidentally gets caught up in some sort of well-funded, ultra-patriotic plot in a small town in Oregon. Mister Big in this scheme is Cliff Robertson. Like one of those corrupt cattlemen in generic Westerns, he runs the town, including the sheriff, Kenneth MacMillan. When Reynold's car breaks down, he stays with the friendly garage owner, Scott Wilson. Wilson's nubile young daughter takes a shine to the disillusioned and taciturn Reynolds but he's too proper to take advantage of her advances, the fool.After a run-in with a couple of Robertson's assassins, Reynolds winds up with a couple of bullets in his belly. He survives, of course, and is rescued and taken to a safe house by an old friend from the Company, Lauren Hutton. The suave local goons soon find the safe house and plastic-bag Hutton to death. This annoys the hero. And it provides him with the revenge motive that leads to the thoroughly predictable climactic shoot out.Neat location shooting in British Columbia. Verdant forests, jagged hills, a pervading sense of tranquility.Reynold's part could have been played by Charles Bronson, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, the young Clint Eastwood, the aging John Wayne, or Babaloo Mandel. It wouldn't make any difference. It's a strictly routine action movie put together with all the generic elements -- the car chase, the exploding fireball, the oily hood who never blinks, the villainous smirk, the hero who holds his feelings in check, the ugly guns, the incandescent eyeballs of the man behind the curtain.Burt Reynolds is a likable guy. Few actors lack pretense the way he does, unashamedly and in a funny, self-deprecating way. But he never really had any good scripts except "Deliverance" and "Boogie Nights." Cynthia Gibb was already in her mid-20s when this was shot, not the teen ager her character is supposed to be. Not that it matters. Her acting skills are modest at best but she's had dance training and, in some eerie way, it lends cachet to her extraordinarily conventional beauty. Her nose in profile could have been designed with the aid of one of those plastic French curves that are used in high school geometry classes.Cliff Robertson is a fine actor in the right role. He never dazzles because he's given to subtleties. The flamboyant "Charly" was an outlier for him. In other roles, as the CIA bureaucrat in "Three Days of the Condor," he manages to get all kinds of signals across with the merest change of expression, a smooth smile or a momentary lift of the eyebrows. By the time of "Malone", he must have needed parts because this stereotype is unworthy of him. He died recently.The film is diverting, that's all.