Do you like roundhouse kicks? I mean, do you really like roundhouse kicks? Do you like watching them, talking about them, performing them in awkward fashion in your living room, reminiscing about how you once deployed one that one time in middle school against Nelson Bandercourt, who’d never again have the temerity to ask if your older sister was dating anyone? If there were a Roundhouse Kick of the Month Club, would you not only be a founding member, but also campaign for its presidency by shaking hands and roundhouse kicking babies? Do you also really hate Nazis, and spend considerable time daydreaming about roundhouse kicking them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Chuck Norris’ The Cutter is for you, my friends… The Cutter is for you. been delivering American-style hand-to-hand beat-downs with the crystal precision befitting a quality engagement ring</B>. Yes, it’s been said that Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean. While <I>The Cutter</I> unfortunately offers no corroborating evidence of that tale, it does feature the erstwhile <I>Delta Force</I> star doing more of what he does best, and here’s a hint: it’s not taking names.<BR><BR>Directed by Bill Tannen (<I>Inside Edge</I>, <I>Love Lies Bleeding</I>), <B>the movie centers on the “stones of light and perfection,” two 500-carat diamonds dating back to ancient Biblical times</B>. (Incidentally, also the nickname for my balls.) Nazi war criminal Colonel Speerman (Kurt Lowens) steals them, and orders a freelance assassin to kidnap Isaac Teller (Bernie Kopell), an Auschwitz survivor who’s also a master refiner of fine jewels. Teller’s niece Elizabeth (Joanna Pacula) then hires private investigator John Shephard (Norris!) to investigate, and he and she follow a bloody trail of murdered jewelers and Interpol agents all the way back to Speerman. <B>Norris sports a gun occasionally, but still finds time to have plenty of folks run dutifully into the heel of his boot in what amounts to an extended episode of <I>Walker, Texas Ranger</I></B>.<BR><BR>Presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that’s for the most part relatively crisp, <I>The Cutter</I> features 5.1 Dolby digital surround tracks in both English and French, as well as alternate subtitles in each language. Bonus trailers include previews for Michael Madsen’s <I>Chasing Ghosts</I>, and similar-minded thriller fare like <I>End Game</I>, <A href=)
The Net 2.0, The Russian Specialist and The Escapist. This film apparently was long in gestation, a pet project of producer Avi Lerner, but there’s no discussion of that here, alas. That means we’re left to judge solely on implementation rather than hope and omission. C- (Movie) D+ (Disc)
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I’m Mike Huckabee and I approve of this review… except for the low grade, bi-atch!
Even the bearded power of Chuck Norris can’t save Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign — that guy is a nut, as the comments about the confedarate flag in South Carolina proved.