SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

mazec666 The uncut version of FINAL JUSTICE is without a doubt the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. On the hand, the MST3K version is one of the funniest episodes ever produced. The riffs centering on Joe Don Baker's weight and ineptitude are pure comedy gold from beginning to end.Greydon Clark (ANGEL'S REVENGE) is the culprit responsible for this pointlessly violent, boring stinker. And he also plays a sheriff who is killed about ten minutes into the movie which is good news for the viewer.Baker, reprising his classic role from MITCHELL, stars as an incompetent, overweight Texas sheriff. Jeez, that's a stretch. Throughout the entire film, he spends most of the time chowing on donuts, gulping glasses of milk, causing havoc, getting into useless shootouts and assaulting citizens while wearing a cheesy cowboy outfit raided from Colonel Tom Parker's closet.Are you getting any of this? Good.Anyway, the actual plot has our idiot hero escorting a thick-accented mobster (Venantino Venantini, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) back to Italy. Unfortunately, Joe Don loses Venantini, gets arrested and yelled at by the Maltese police. This act happens not only once, not only twice, but a thousand times.See a pattern here? Good.Sure FINAL JUSTICE is garbage, but the film contains many bizarre characters and images such as a colorful carnival, pirate strippers, a Warholesque hit man, a boat chase involving a monk, a clichéd bar fight, Jon Lovitz, and let's not forget the three-inch taxi driver. Man, David Lynch would be jealous right now.MY ADVICE: Skip the film, and track down the MST3K version.

Kip Wells (sonydude32) In short, the movie had a little bit of a weak 1st act with some forced acting and a somewhat disjointed rhythm and pacing, somewhat of a decent 2nd act that managed to build some tension and intrigue despite some inconsistent pacing and some inferior performances by the cast, and the 3rd act ... there virtually wasn't ANY 3rd act!Regarding the 3rd act, the movie just abruptly ends. There is no resolution and no path down from the climax of the 2nd act, so there wasn't much of a 3rd act. The bad guys die and that's that; the end credits roll. There is nothing to show what happens to the protagonist and the supporting characters and so on. The audience would've likely left the theater after the movie, asking "that's it?" A real letdown.Music was composed by David Bell which worked adequately enough to serve the film most of the time, but it's certainly nothing outstanding. It's just functional, but achieves this by being merely generic and derivative. It is also apparent that the score is VERY dated with the use of synthesized timpani for some of the percussion. What least impressed me about the score is that some moments of tension heralds music cues sounding like they were ripped off of James Horner from "48 HRS." and "Commando," particularly the brass.In all, the film had potential as the basic story itself is good, but the execution was lackluster with mediocre direction, weak acting, and somewhat inconsistent pacing.There was virtually no 3rd act to properly finish the story, and this omission is major and unforgivable as it doesn't allow the movie to end satisfactorily. This could either be the screenplay or, possibly, the production had to cut out filming or editing the 3rd act into the finished movie due to budget constraints (but I'm speculating as to why there isn't a 3rd act). Whatever the reason, the abrupt ending really hurts the movie overall. This is good for a view if you're curious and you can get the movie for VERY cheap as well as to learn the reason WHY you need to have the 3 acts (beginning, middle, end) if you write screenplays and make movies.Otherwise, you might not want to waste your time unless you can get the MST3K version to at least get some laughs out of it.

Aaron1375 Joe Don Baker is an alright to good actor in small roles here and there...he was alright in Goldeneye and made a pretty good Bond villan in The Living Daylights and has appeared in various other movies. One thing he can't do is carry a movie as the lead, which he is in this extremely bad revenge movie set in Malta. Joe Don's partner is killed so he kills the killer's brother and escorts the killer to Italy, but some guys cause the plane to set down in Malta and the killer gets away. The rest of the movie is seeing Joe Don chase the killer here and there, Joe Don getting taken into custody various times, Joe Don torturing a bartendar and being interrupted and so on. The movie is quite bad and you won't find yourself exactly pulling for Joe Don's character. You will be amazed at how many times Joe Don the hero gets taken out by one punch and how incompetent he proves to be. The crowning part of the movie comes when Joe Don chases the killer all over Malta with the killer in a priest robe and then they get in boats and he chases them all around Malta. This movie also features one of the worst closing lines to end a movie ever.

dindy-2 I saw this movie on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and it was even bad by their standards. I got a strange sense of deja vue watching this as they kept "recycling" scenes (using the same footage multiple times). I guess they had to save money to keep up with JDB's dry cleaning bill as he sweats profusely throughout this movie. Sweat on a young fit guy sans shirt may be considered sexy by some, but not a fat middle aged guy. This movie was so bad, and so predictable that I didn't make it through the last 20 minutes or so, but I saw enough to "get the picture".I think this film had to be made in Italy as films this bad are outlawed by our Constitution. If you must see this film, watch it via MST3k, at least you will laugh. Thank God he and the hot Italian chick didn't do any bed scenes. JDB certainly was not Walking Tall here - but I don't mean to pick on him - everyone pretty much sucked in this movie including the Jimmy Dean Sausage dude (his dead partner).