SummaryA returning war veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible.
Directed By:John Flynn
Written By:Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould
Rolling Thunder
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
67% Positive
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80
At times deeply insightful, at others wholly crass, Rolling Thunder is a fascinating curio, the meeting point between realism and exploitation.
80
Devane gives a performance of anguished depth, the final carnage is spectacular and it's a time capsule of a movie.
75
While Rolling Thunder suffers from Schrader's predictable obsessions with masculine ritual and gunplay, Devane and Jones enhance the material with their nuanced, sensitive portrayals of men who have lost their souls in another land.
70
Performances are made crystalline through a sixth sense for camera placement and curt cutting from director John Flynn, whose 2007 passing was little noted, though his no-BS way of laying down a story is a rare commodity in any era.
67
Rolling Thunder is a bloody, nasty, complicated action movie for a bloody, nasty, complicated moment in American history.
60
If you can forgive the cardboard villains and suspicious editing, there is plenty here to hold your interest.
50
The movie has some good things, but in the way it has been directed by John Flynn it moves so easily and sort of foolishly toward its violent climax that all the tension within Charlie has long since escaped the film.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
67% Positive
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Nov 22, 2022
7
A group of Vietnam vets are released from a Viet Cong prison camp and return home to a hero's welcome. America has changed however, and so have they. Written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) it's a slow burner that simmers then explodes into brutality. Good performances and a thoughtful script elevate this revenge flick.
Production Company:
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- Lawrence Gordon Productions
- TBC Film Presentation
Release Date:Oct 14, 1977
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Welcome Home Major!
