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The Exterminator is writer/director James Glickenhaus best film that falls somewhere between Death Wish and First Blood with nods to Taxi Driver. This grindhouse action classic pulls no punches on tackling this material, set in the mean streets of NYC circa 1979/1980(a truly dangerous place during that period). After an altercation with local street gang leaves his best buddy from Nam in the hospital John Eastland (Robert Ginty) takes to the streets to fight his one man war on crime. Robert Ginty was up for the task as The Exterminator and is unrelentless and unrepenting in his methods and efforts to remove the scum of the Earth, from putting a mobster in a meatgrinder, setting a chicken hawk pimp on fire, shooting a pervert child rapist with explosive tipped bullets and leaving members of The Ghetto Ghouls for dead to have their faces gnawed off by rats. This is all set in 1980 NYC as a backdrop, that is bleak, depressing and gritty in style and approach. The Exterminator is very violent, but very well paced and well made low budget action flick that follows in the footsteps of Death Wish and Rolling Thunder and is 100 percent recommended to fans of the aforementioned films. Christopher George makes a memorable appearance as a cop that is investigating The Exterminator. Overall, The Exterminator is great vigilante action. Awesome, my kind of movie!
score 8/10
dworldeater 12 January 2018
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23-2-2021 18:07:19