Movie
1994
The Specialist is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger. It is loosely based on The Specialist series of novels by John Shirley. The film was met with negative critical response, but became a box office success, and Gloria Estefan's version of "Turn the Beat Around" became a dance sensation, becoming #1 on…
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Phrase "high concept" is profanity in the vocabulary of many of today's film critics. But even such, most despised category of Hollywood bad movies has certain layers of sub-categories. There are "high concept" movies based on a single idea, or single storyline or plot. In case of *The Specialist*, 1994 action thriller directed by Luis Llosa there wasn't even such original idea. High concept was simply in pairing tw…More
