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1981 |
A troubled Vietnam Vet, hassled in a small town, escapes on a dirt bike into the countryside and… Does this sound familiar?
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Rare DVD... signed by Linda Blair |
Well before FIRST BLOOD came RUCKUS starring BATTLESTAR GALACTICA maverick Dirk Benedict as Kyle Hanson, whose scruffy disposition doesn’t make him very popular in dusty old small town: Wild-eyed like a predator in headlights, Kyle has a few creative tricks up his sleeve to thwart the hillbillies on his tail. Linda Blair is the Sheriff’s daughter who, with a missing husband in Vietnam, gives Kyle refuge: here’s where, surrounded in a big house in the middle of nowhere, the real trouble begins.
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MovieSCORE: ***1/2 |
Action-packed from beginning to end, RUCKUS lacks the charge of the iconic predecessor, feeling more like a slightly edgy DUKES OF HAZZARD episode – and that’s a good thing. Dealing with post-war stress never gets heavy-handed, and the love story with Blair doesn't slow the pace. Although this came out before FIRST BLOOD, and shares the same plot and other characteristics including our hero leaping from a high area to escape impending foes, the David Morrell novel had been floating around Hollywood since the early seventies.
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Linda Blair is the Sheriff's (Ben Johnson's) daughter in RUCKUS |
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Dirk Benedict causes a rampaging RUCKUS |
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"If you don't back off, I'll do something to make your head spin!" |
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