Eye of the Tiger

1986
R
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

2.7K

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Gary Busey, Judith Barsi, and William Smith in Eye of the Tiger (1986)

Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

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Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Yaphet Kotto's red bi-plane has an M-16 with a 30 round magazine tied to each wing strut, with no visible means of activating them from the cockpit.

Goofs
In the scene with the dead paramedics, the bottom paramedic blinks right before the camera passes by him.

He wasn't pronounced as dead. Clearly he was alive a little bit at that point.

Quotes
J.B. Deveraux: I'm gonna put this truck right up his ass.

Alternate versions
German version was cut by 22 seconds to remove a few shots of gore, this is done in order to get a "not under 18" rating from the FSK, but nonetheless it still got BPjM indexed anyway. Subsequent German TV airings were similarly shortened for violence reasons. Although despite being removed from the index list back in 2016, only just now in February of 2024 was the uncut version granted a "not under 16" rating.

Connections
Referenced in Zeg 'ns Aaa: Opgeruimd staat netjes (1987)

Soundtracks
Eye of the Tiger
Written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan
Performed by Survivor
Courtesy of Scotti Brothers Records and Tapes

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Featured review

6/10

This place is crawling with lice, and you're acting like it's Mayberry R.F.D.

It don't matter to me.

No, it don't matter that this film doesn't have the greatest actors. Gary Busey does a great job as a Vietnam Vet who comes home to lose his wife to a gang of motorcycle thugs, led by A-number-one total scumbag with a really bad haircut, William Smith. Yaphet Kotto is a perennial favorite of mine, and he does the right thing her. Yeah. And then there is Seymour Cassel as the crooked Sheriff that needs to be taught a lesson.

Yes, the story is pretty unbelievable, but that doesn't matter. It's the little guy getting kicked around, the cops on the take, the townspeople who have ceased to care, and scumbags that need to be flushed down the toilet.

A guilty pleasure for when you need to get the adrenaline flowing.