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Blind Justice (1994)

Armand Assante (Actor), Elisabeth Shue (Actor), Richard Spence (Director) | Rated: R | Format: DVD
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews) |

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  • Actors: Armand Assante, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Davi
  • Directors: Richard Spence
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.0), French (Stereo), Spanish (Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Hbo Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: May 8, 2001
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059H7N
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,924 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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In this action-packed western, Assante is Canaan, a roving gunfighter, blinded in the Civil War. But justice isn't only blind, it's deadly. Canaan takes on the ruthless Alacran who is holding a small town hostage for a stash of government silver.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Although derivative of many Oriental films, this short little western still packs a punch.

Assante is a nearly blind gunfighter traveling with a baby. He is looking for the baby's mother, asking everyone he finds about the town she is supposed to be in. He stops in one town where a group of soldiers is guarding a shipment of silver, which is being eyed by the local banditos. The soldiers, trapped, send Assante out for help. All hell breaks loose.

Assante is very good as the embittered gunfighter (and often very funny). His blindness never becomes gimmicky, although one has to wonder how he can ride a horse. He uses his hearing and sense of smell to shoot, how does he know in which direction the horse is going? Adam Baldwin, as the soldier's sergeant, is great, as he distances himself even further from the Baldwin brothers (no, he is not one of them, he can act). Robert Davi has his best role since "Licence to Kill" as the main villain. The one cast liability here is Oscar nominee Elisabeth Shue.

Shue delivers all of her lines in a flat monotonal vaguely-Valley Girl accent. She should be banned from doing any period films ever again. She has one embarassing nude scene, if you can call it that. At one point, she is sitting on a bed in her corset, and you can see part of her nipple mashed up out of her undergarment. It does not look erotic, it looks painful. Assante and Shue's forced romance is also the weakest part of the script.

One scene to watch for is in the climax as a major character is blown through the doors of a building. I rewound that three times just to bask in an action shot I had never seen before.

This feels like the first film of a proposed series that never came to fruition, and with an 85 minute running time, you have to wonder what they cut out. However, I do recommend "Blind Justice."

This is rated (R) for physical violence, strong gun violence, some sexual violence, some gore, profanity, very brief female nudity, and some adult situations.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Borrowing freely from westerns traditional and Italian, as well as from the Japanese Zatoichi series (blind swordfighter/masseur), BLIND JUSTICE works much better, and is a lot more enjoyable, than a mere plot description would indicate.

Armand Assante plays Canaan, a man blinded in Civil War. We see him first dressed in a black duster and wearing thick smoked glasses, walking across the desert with an infant bundled in his arms. Three Mexican banditos approach, whooping and hollering and firing their guns in the air. Canaan is dust, and if he manages to get out of this scrape he crawls into myth.

Although we're led to believe that Canaan retains some sight, his condition seems to have enhanced his other senses to a remarkable degree. Enough so that he's able to hear a scorpion walking across a hitching post from twenty feet and shoot it without touching the hand it was about to crawl onto.

The plot demands all of his super acute faculties. Canaan finds himself in a town under siege. A decimated U.S. Calvary unit is holed up in the local church, sitting on a wagon full of silver and threatened by the dreaded bandit king Alacran (Robert Davi) and his merciless minions. Oh, yeah, and there's that nurse Caroline (Elizabeth Shue) that he's got to kind of fall for, too.

Assante is a great actor, and makes his incredible character believable. The action is well choreographed and fast paced, save for a few flashblacks strategically thrown in to fill in Canaan's back story. I'm not sure we need to know how or why Canaan was blinded, but we find out anyway.

BLIND JUSTICE is compelling and an ingenious western.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
The plot of this 1994 HBO movie is fairly simple with a sprinkling of more complex sub-plots, but essentially this movie is about a blind man (played by Armand Assante) on a quest. This western works very well with the exception of one mediocre performance in the female role, but very few [if any] of us watch westerns for the love interest. The strength of this movie is in Assante's excellent performance, as well as the universal appeal this movie will have across the board for fans of traditional American westerns and European [spaghetti] westerns alike. The director seems to borrow heavily from earlier ideas of Corbucci, Garrone and Colizzi, with a healthy measure of John Ford and Howard Hawks influence combined, to create a unique film in the western genre. I have no idea what HBO intended when they funded this film, but in a 2003 era of Dungeons and Dragons and a post-democratic society a little grit, guns and gore goes a long way! Highly recommend.
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Strange movie, but good. as all spag. westerns go. Do not think I have seen anything like it before and I have seen alot of movies. But have watched it more than once. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Chaseslate
a curiosity for sure, and that can be a good thing!
Give Assante some credit for versatility, maybe even for guts. I can't imagine how this read as a script but he found enough to work with that made for an unusual film; I am... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Beth E. Williams
Very disappointing
I didn't find anything likable or entertaining about this movie. The characters were shallow, the story was ABCDE, and the end uses a silly deux-ex-machina. Read more
Published on March 18, 2010 by Akimo
Great Western Action
Blind Justice
The Blind gunman Canaan shows justice isn't so blind. It's one of those classic style movies that you can watch over and over - the final church show down is... Read more
Published on April 18, 2009 by D. Villareal
Unusual, entertaining and brilliant!
Buy this for your western collection. An unusual piece, brilliantly acted. I highly recommend this.
Published on December 23, 2007 by John Anthony Miller
blind justice
I have had this title on LD for years, but when it was available on DVD, decided to get it. It is unique in the content and I did like the soundtrack, it was unusual. Read more
Published on November 10, 2006 by Robert Warren
The Greatest Movie Ever Made
BLIND JUSTICE is, without a doubt, the greatest movie ever made. More color sequences than CITIZEN KANE, fewer Italian thugs than THE GODFATHER, and by far more horses than... Read more
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