The Specialist

The Specialist (1994)

  • 4% of critics liked it
    (27 reviews)

  • 33% of users liked it
    (40,869 ratings)

This over-the-top star vehicle for box office draws Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone went through a series of directors before landing in the hands of Luis Llosa. Stallone stars as Ray Quick, a former CIA bomb expert now retired in Miami after an operation against a South American drug lord went… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Alexandra Seros
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Oct 7, 1994 Wide
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Christopher Harris, Globe and Mail

    This movie is a stinker in every way, from the one-dimensional acting to the idiot dialogue to the surprisingly monotonous storyline.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The Specialist is one of those films that forces the characters through torturous mazes of dialogue and action, to explain a plot that is so unlikely it's not worth the effort.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    With all the preening, posing and stretching, it's hard to know if The Specialist is an action movie or an exercise video.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    This movie is excruciatingly dumb.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...all formula action, formula adventure, formula characters, formula romance, and formula revenge plot. (Blu-ray edition)

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Emil K


    Lazy and laughably badly acted thriller with a revenge-twist. Those wannabe hot and steamy sex-scenes between Stallone and Stone are just embarrasingly bad. Not even music from usually great John Barry can save this bomb. And be warned about that horribly bad performance from Rod… More

  • Conner R


    Not a great movie, but it's just too much fun not to enjoy on some level. You've got Sly as a bomb expert who finds a ton of different ways to blow you up. Sharon Stone adds to the mix mostly as eye candy, but she's actually a really good character too. Everyone else in… More

  • Wahida K


    Sly ist the Best! The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.

  • Anthony L


    This is one of my more lazy reviews but It?s shit.

  • Cassie H


    I liked this movie alot. Sylvester Stallone works very well in the action films that he stars in & this was one of them. Loved the scenes he did with Sharon Stone as well. Just a great movie! :) Love it no matter what critics or people say. :) Absoulutly a fave of mine. :) Will… More

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