Excessive Force (film)
| Excessive Force | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jon Hess |
| Produced by |
Oscar L. Costo Thomas Ian Griffith Michael Harpster Erwin Stoff |
| Written by | Thomas Ian Griffith |
| Starring |
Thomas Ian Griffith Lance Henriksen James Earl Jones |
| Music by | Charles Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
| Edited by | Alan Baumgarten |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release dates |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million[1] |
| Box office | $1,146,520 |
Excessive Force is a 1993 American action film, starring and written by Thomas Ian Griffith. It co-stars Burt Young and is directed by Jon Hess.
Plot
Terry (Thomas Ian Griffith) and his two partners from the Chicago special investigation police squad are engaged in war against Chicago's mafia boss, DiMarco (Burt Young). Despite many attempts to jail him, he always manages somehow to walk free. Not discouraged by that, police prepares another action to raise some evidence against DiMarco, this time it's a controlled sale of drugs for $3 million. After the exchange of the money for the narcotics police wants to arrest gangsters involved in the business, unfortunately this won't come without a shootout, during one of them manages to escape (only to be killed later by DiMarco himself, for losing the mafia's money). The other gangster which was wounded during the shooting is making confessions in the hospital (forced by Terry), those are though worthless in the eyes of the judge, who rules that the interrogation was held with use of 'excessive force' and as that was illegal. DiMarco is once again free, furthermore now he wants vengeance on the police who, as he thinks stole his money. Terry's co-cops are being killed one by one and soon he finds himself in peril, especially after he learns that DiMarco's suspicions are not so quite abstract.
Cast
- Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry McCain
- Lance Henriksen as Devlin
- James Earl Jones as Jake
- Charlotte Lewis as Anita Gilmour
- Tony Todd as Frankie Hawkins
- Burt Young as Sal DiMarco
- W. Earl Brown as Vinnie DiMarco
- Bobby Bass as Limo Driver
- Antoni Corone as Fat Tommy
- Tom Hodges as Dylan
- Tom Milanovich as Mario
- Sam Sanders as Dexter
- Susan Wood as Lisa
Sequel
A sequel, Excessive Force II: Force on Force, was released directly to VHS in 1995. It was directed by Jonathan Winfrey and produced by Lisa M. Hansen.
The sequel bears little to no relation to the first film.
Reception
Malcolm Johnson, of The Hartford Courant, says that "about the best that can be said for this tale…is that Griffith exhibits a mournful Irish dash to go with his high karate kicks and that Todd shows a far different side of his acting talent than he revealed in Candyman."[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Excessive-Force/
- ↑ Johnson, Malcolm (May 17, 1993), "Two local boys make relatively good trying hard to be bad cops", The Hartford Courant