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- 1977
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 35 m
- 1977
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A returning war veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible.
Directed By: John Flynn
Written By: Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould
- 1977
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 35 m
- 1977
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 35 m
Rolling Thunder
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6.9
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Summary A returning war veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible.
Directed By: John Flynn
Written By: Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
66
67% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
At times deeply insightful, at others wholly crass, Rolling Thunder is a fascinating curio, the meeting point between realism and exploitation.
Devane gives a performance of anguished depth, the final carnage is spectacular and it's a time capsule of a movie.
While Rolling Thunder suffers from Schrader's predictable obsessions with masculine ritual and gunplay, Devane and Jones enhance the material with their nuanced, sensitive portrayals of men who have lost their souls in another land.
Performances are made crystalline through a sixth sense for camera placement and curt cutting from director John Flynn, whose 2007 passing was little noted, though his no-BS way of laying down a story is a rare commodity in any era.
Rolling Thunder is a bloody, nasty, complicated action movie for a bloody, nasty, complicated moment in American history.
If you can forgive the cardboard villains and suspicious editing, there is plenty here to hold your interest.
The movie has some good things, but in the way it has been directed by John Flynn it moves so easily and sort of foolishly toward its violent climax that all the tension within Charlie has long since escaped the film.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.9
63% Positive
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