Christina Santos, una mujer colombiana, contrata los servicios de robert McBain, un veterano que sirvió en la Guerra de Vietnam, para que la ayude en su enfrentamiento contra un despiadado d... Leer todoChristina Santos, una mujer colombiana, contrata los servicios de robert McBain, un veterano que sirvió en la Guerra de Vietnam, para que la ayude en su enfrentamiento contra un despiadado dictador.Christina Santos, una mujer colombiana, contrata los servicios de robert McBain, un veterano que sirvió en la Guerra de Vietnam, para que la ayude en su enfrentamiento contra un despiadado dictador.
- Major Tenny
- (as Michael Joseph De Sare)
- Gill
- (as T. G. Waites)
- Sing Lau
- (as Cristito 'Kris' Aguilar)
- General Ho
- (as Protacio 'Tony' Dee)
- Screaming P.O.W.
- (as Craig Walter Judd)
- Armodo
- (as David Tamayo Pegram)
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- CuriosidadesAlthough the Simpsons character of McBain predates this film, Los Simpson (1989) were forced to drop the character's name for a number of years, due to difficulties created by the release of an action film called "McBain." The Simpsons kept the character in the show, but referred to him by his "actual" name, Rainer Wolfcastle, until the difficulties with the film "McBain" passed.
- PifiasGeneral Epper wears the insignia of a General of the Army, a ceremonial rank which was last awarded to Omar Bradley prior to the Korean War.
- Citas
McBain: Santos is dead. You remember Santos? This is his sister.
Frank Bruce: Yeah, I remember Santos. It's a hell of a thing they did to him. But there's nothing we can do about it now.
McBain: You know, I get up in the morning and I go to work. I go to the same bar each night and drink the same beer. I laugh, I talk. But when I saw Santos on tv, I got jealous. Because, he was doing what he did best.
Frank Bruce: What, you miss the smell of napalm in the morning?
- ConexionesFeatured in The Cinema Snob: Bad Movie Cinema Snob: McBain (2010)
Boasting excellent production values, "McBain" is a silly action film geared mainly toward overseas audiences. It represents a strong video title for the Shaprio Glickenhaus banner after its theatrical exposure.
James Glickenhaus, in his first writing-directing assignment since "Shakedown" three years earlier, has assembled the elements of an A-grade picture but failed to create an engrossing or believable narrative. Pic becomes a spoof of itself an the genre early on and never recovers.
Prolog has Chick Vennera and fellow soldiers rescuing POW Christoper Walkenon the day the Vietnam War ended in 1975, so Walken owes him one. When Vennera is killed in an abortive coup of the Colombian government 18 years later, Walken agrees to help Vennera's sister, Maria Conchita Alonso, overthrow the drug cartel-run dictatorship there and let the common people come to power.
This timely theme of revolution is treat4ed with a flippancy reminiscent of Sergio Leone's "Duck, You Sucker" and other Italian political Westerns, but Glickenhaus makes it far too easy for Walken and his group of Vietnam vets to reach their objective. Cartoonish action is amusing but never gripping.
Walken, no stranger to uch roles ("The Deer Hunter", "The Dogs of War") appears awkward and bored with a stiff-upper-lip assignment more suited to Glickenhaus' 1980 "Exterminator" leading man Robert Ginty. The extreme earnestness of Alonso as the freedom fighter is overdone. There is no romance in the picture and zero chemistry between the two leads, a glaring deficiency.
Supporting cast of reliable thesps such as Michael Ironside and Steve James mainly provides comic relief. Best acting is by Luis Guzman, who brings panache to his role as a philosophical major domo of a New York crack den. Filming in the Philippines instead of South meria results in Filipino extras who definitely don't look authentic.
Dominating the humans is topnotch special effects and stunt work that lift "McBain" above the norm in the action genre. This technical accomplishment is the pic's raison d'etre and will help it cross national and language barriers.
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- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 456.127 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 320.000 US$
- 22 sept 1991
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 456.127 US$
- Duración1 hora 43 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1