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A wonderful story, wasn't it. Not like the story in this flick. Mitchell goes to solve a murder at a rich white Walter Deaney's house and then generally makes a nuisance of himself. Deaney's making drug deals with James Arthur Cummings (I think. I've never been good with plots when I'm tired) and generally the rest of the movie is Mitchell sitting outside Cummings' house. Sometimes inside too for a change of pace. It all ends with a water boat battle and him dragging Linda Evans off to jail just to prove he's unlikable. But generally nothing happens in this movie worth noting except a dune buggy chase (not seen on MST3K!) and a horrible sex scene. It was close to being worthy of a skull but I know that being bored isn't enough for a skull. Although the sex scene made me want to wretch.
A side note: the box that Mitchell came in features a drawing of Mitchell hanging on to a helicopter while holding Linda Evans with one hand. This never happens. Also on the box it has the tag line: "Action and excitment has a new name: Mitchell." Ummm... no it doesn't |
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 | Cops lives aren't as exciting as most action movies would suggest.
| | Chalk and smack are not the same thing.
| | Women love a man in uniform... ...for the right price.
| | Hell hath no fury like a Mitchell scorned.
| | No one steps on Cummings, cause he steps on people and he's got a big shoe.
| | There is a definite communication problem between young people and old people.
| | Some TV pilots are better left without shows.
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| 5 mins - GRATUITOUS ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A THIEF!
| | 11 mins - Thanks for the overdone analogy, pal.
| | 22 mins - Oh, dear God! Oh, wait it's just his gun.
| | 26 mins - What a great accent
| | 29 mins - Could this chase get any more exciting?
| | 41 mins - GRATUITOUS ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JOE DON BAKER!
| | 42 mins - OH MY GOD!!! MITCHELL HAVING SEX!! At least we don't see little Mitchell.
| | 58 mins - Mitchell being chased by dune buggies? This movie just keeps getting better.
| | 64 mins - This is the stupidest argument ever!
| | 72 mins - GRATUITOUS ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST MITCHELL!
| | 81 mins - GRATUITOUS ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A HELICOPTER PILOT!
| | End Credits - Theme sung by Hoyt Axton. If he weren't already dead I'd kill him.
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Reply #1. Posted on October 04, 2000, 09:03:51 PM by K. Jung
Finally this masterpiece well known in the IMdB
bottom 100 arrives.
Unfortunately, there is a sequel where Mitchell
goes to Italy to kill some mobs.
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Reply #2. Posted on October 05, 2000, 10:26:42 AM by Brandi
Martin Balsam was also Detective Arbogast in Psycho (the *real* one, not that stupid color thing), and John Saxon has a long and not-quite-respectable career in genre films, with Enter the Dragon being one of many he did.
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Reply #3. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:09:49 PM by Ernst Bitterman
If you have access to someone with an MST3K vault, this movie is good fun. I almost wathced a full half-hour of it once in the straight version... brrrr.
How the hell does a lump like Mitchell get a character who looks like Linda Evans interested in him? I'm (somewhat)more attractive than he is, and frankly I'd question the sanity of a woman that pretty who was interested in me.
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Reply #4. Posted on May 15, 2004, 03:07:42 AM by Pepito
Terrible, just terrible
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Reply #5. Posted on July 16, 2008, 05:16:08 PM by inframan
After seeing the MST3K version I can't imagine seeing this w/o the mst commentary. I think the Alamo Drafthouse played this for wierd wednesday recently. I love bad movies but that would just be painful.
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Reply #6. Posted on July 17, 2008, 01:55:49 PM by BixDugan
"Baby Oil? NOOOOOO!"
Love Mitchell. And Final Justice.
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