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An Eye For An Eye

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I feel An Eye for An Eye was Chuck's best out of all of his martial art films. The story was excellent and sad in the beginning of the film. The film picks up when Norris displays his spectacular skills on a group of Triad Drug villians. The cast is excellent with good performances from Richard Roundtree and Christopher Lee. Excellent Martial Art fight scenes including Norris facing off with Professor Toru Tanaka. This man is mean and huge. An excellent martial arts film.

I've always had a soft spot for Norris action vehicles and overall I viewed An Eye for an Eye (one of his earlier efforts) to be one of his best.

I was never really big on Norris's late 70's action films (Good Guys Wear Black, A Force of One, and the abysmal Breaker! Breaker!) as they were shoddily made and had stiff directing. The Octagon was step up in quality that would continue into An Eye for An Eye, a film I like even better. The plot is pretty typical. Norris has his partner killed and he leaves the force. Not soon after his news reporter friend is murdered. He teams up with her father (that great Mako) to investigate and find her killers. There are corrupt cops, drug running two/faced execs, and a really cool henchman called the professor. Actually this film reminds me of another Norris vehicle called Forced Vengeance which would be released a year later.

Of course there's great action highlighted by a fight topped off with a helicopter with machine guns. This film is just of much higher quality compared to Norris's early efforts. The story is better as well as the directing.

Though of course this isn't art, it is presented very poorly by MGM on DVD. I have the re-release of this film by MGM that I bought a number of years ago and the picture on DVD is barely better than my VHS. The picture is just terrible. I'm not sure why either as MGM has always been good with good picture quality. Hell, even Norris's terrible film Breaker! Breaker has way better picture quality than this! As a matter of fact, this is probably the worst looking Norris movie on DVD, which it should not be. It's like MGM didn't even digitally master it before slapping it onto DVD.

Even with its poor picture quality, I highly recommend it to early 80's action film fans. One of Norris's most overlooked films.

I want to give this movie 4 stars. Mainly because it has Mako, and Prof. Toru Tanaka. But without Chuck's 'stache...I can't. In all seriousness though. this movie is actually one of my favorites by Chuck. It's got a touch of the dectective story to it. The acting is better than usual in a chuck Norris flick. And, most importantly, the fight scenes are good.

I can't speak for anyone else, but when it comes to martial arts films, one thing matters above all else and that's fight scene choreography. Of course different eras and styles have different standards. As far as American martial arts, Chuck is still the standard in my opinion...all due respect to Billy Blanks, Cynthia Rothrock, et al. This title, along with a few others, show Chuck's prowess as a martial artist in a way that later became lost in an array of spinning back fists, round house kicks and cheesy scripts (can anyone say, "The President's Man"?).

Overal this movie is fun, with some good fight scenes and a memorable performance by the Professor. Definately worth a view!!

First of all, MGM released 3 Chuck norris titles at the same day. This one, Invasion USA, and Lone Wolf mcQuade but MGM opted to release this as full screen and the other 2 in WS. What is the logic behind that? This movie is everybit as good as the other 2 and should have been treated the same way.

The movie itself is excellent as the title suggests it is about revenge. The fight scenes are great and Chuck Norris performance is very good. The full screen picture is quite sharp and the sound is in mono. Considering the price, this DVD still a must have for Norris fans.

When policeman Chuck Norris's partner is killed in a drug bust gone bad, the former karate champ goes on the rampage, kicking in the teeth of all that get in his way. Hey, wasn't this the plot of Forced Vengeance? Well, yes it is. But where that movie was passable chop sokey hokum, An Eye for An Eye gets a little boost from a better cast (you could not beat having Christopher Lee and Richard Roundtree in the same movie) and the picturesque backdrop of the San Francisco setting. It just seemed to work a little bit better this time around. Recommended for those who like movies with a little kick to them.

This is one of the best Chuck Norris movies, so if you like Chuck Norris movies, that's saying something. The DVD is not the greatest quality, and there are no special extras. It's just the movie for the most part. Chuck's got a better supporting cast in this one than he often does, and even though the plot is not too different than a lot of movies of this genre, this one is just more entertaining overall. Chuck's got a mentor in this one who helps him out in the required final showdown sequence with the bad guys. And one of the bad guys is none other than the actor who played "Scaramanga" from The Man With the Golden Gun, though he had to leave his extra nipple with the James Bond studio...

A slam bang movie from start to finish. It starts after Norris's partner is killed by the drug lords. Norrism kicks it into high gear by single handedly beating up some drug baddies. The actors in this movie are above averagr. Richard Roundtree and Christopher Lee definitely add to the movie. Chuck has to fight the ultimate villain in the person of Professor Toru Tanaka. This movie has an exciting ending and an excellent plot. Be sure to buy this movie.

what can you say ? CHUCK NORRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


one of the greats with bruce lee , jim kelley , bob wall , ect...;

loved the movie.

Length:: 2:37 Mins

An Eye for an Eye

Chick Norris' "An Eye for An Eye" followed "The Octagon" and while the fight scenes were not anywhere as good in this movie as the ninja crazed flick, it did bolster nice performances from Christopher Lee, Mako, and yes, Chuck Norris. Here Chuck begins to finally appear somewhat comfortable as an actor. Prof. Tanaka (the really big villain) looks intimidating, but the final fight scene between him and Chuck is very limited. Matter of fact, Chuck's fight scenes appear more in line with his character. He is as Mako asserts, a little sloppy at times, but believable as one tough cop.