Alicia I love this movie so much

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

GazerRise Fantastic!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Robert J. Maxwell At the end of the novel, Mike Hammer's tough-as-nails private investigator enfolds a beautiful woman in his arms. They kiss. He shoots her in the belly. She backs away, astonished, and before she collapses she asks, "How could you?" "It was easy," replies Mike. These were the single most celebrated lines in pulp literature in 1953.The plot is torturous. Mike's old friend is murdered and this provides Mike with the revenge motive that propels him through the rest of the story, which has some sort of sex institute operating as a brainwashing tool of the CIA for the purpose of creating sex fiends who murder the agency's enemies and make it look like the work of a sex fiend which, in a way, it is. I told you it was complicated.But it deserves a few observations. One is that Barbara Carerra, an aristocratic looking ex-model and ex Miss South American Continent, looks perfectly beautiful, especially when completely and unashamedly nude. Shooting her was a mortal sin and Mike Hammer's soul should roast in hell. It doesn't matter that she was a treacherous, murdering, domineering nymphomaniac. Some men might enjoy just those properties in a woman. De gustibus non disputandum est.Another is that Mike Hammer, incarnated here by Armand Assante, is the luckiest man alive. Everybody who shoots at him misses. And, man, do they shoot at him -- with M-16s and Uzis and other weapons. They try to electrocute him. They blow him up with mines. Yet he always escapes. And when he has an opportunity to shoot BACK you can bet HE never misses.The police can't be trusted. Only Mike's secretary, Velda, she of the long and lustrous blond tresses can be trusted. She's played by Laurene Landon, who is a paragon of beauty but who can't act, not that it matters.Many of the action scenes, and they are here in abundance, are in the slow motion that was fashionable at the time. They entered their decadent period years ago. I blame Sam Pekinpah for their persistence.Armand Assante is the best performer in the film, even if the film itself is tripe. Second Best award goes to Judson Earney Scott, a magnetic actor, as the sex-driven, twisted madman. You can't take your eyes off the guy. He resembles Peter Greene, another very convincing villain.

lost-in-limbo Oh the 70s was a great time for crime features… although "I, the Jury" was made in the early eighties it had me thinking it was from the 70s like some sort leftovers that found itself in the wrong decade. And hey that's not a bad thing at all. Originally it looked like it was cult-filmmaker Larry Cohen's project, as he penned the screenplay and was to direct to only be replaced by Richard T. Heffron (Futureworld). This is another adaptation of novelist's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer character. Private detective Mike Hammer looks into the case to seek revenge when he learns of the killing of his one-armed ex-army buddy. What he digs up about his mate's death, is something quite big."I, the Jury" is a tough as nails, lean and steamy pulp crime / film noir feature that's sexually charged (an opened orgy sequence) and brutally violent (a ghastly slit throat) amongst a rather seedy backdrop. Filling in the role as the iconic Mike Hammer is a fittingly hardboiled, but wry Armand Assante. Surrounding him is a bunch of attractive, but formidable ladies in the shape of Barbara Carrera and Laurene Landon. Also you got the likes of Paul Sorvino, Alan King, Geoffrey Lewis and Barry Snider pitching in with good performances. Cohen's story remains exhaustively captivating; by always being on the move in what is a complicated web of conspiracies and leads. The dialogues are bold. Sometimes contrived in its actions, but it does open up a can of worms. Heffron's steadfast direction is economically staged with moments of thrilling engagements and brooding passages that he's not afraid to bare flesh, but at times it felt like I was watching a long-winded TV episode. Bill Conti composes a titillatingly smoking blues score, which installs a whirlwind of emotion.

waldosanmiguel I remember renting this film and seeing it with my friends. The video machine was new and enormous and my friends an me were in heaven. In the cover was a guy with a gun and that was enough for us to rent it. Everybody was drooling with the steamy sex scenes and gratuitous nudity. The violence over the top, the sex is wild I mean there is an orgy and people in white coats are taking notes for Christ sakes, and the unintentionally funny dialogue makes for a camp classic. We thougth we were seeing the greatest movie in the world. How can you not like a booby trap place like the one Mike Hammer drives trough with Alan King being 12 years old. Yea, Adult supervision Blah! I recently showed it to my wife and she almost passes out from laughing. It still is a great popcorn movie and her laughter was contagious. See without prejudices and just enjoy Assantes unbounded energy. Excuse my English if there are any errors in the spelling.

Antilles-7 This so-so detective yarn feels more like a TV movie than the noir-ish piece of cinema you might expect from a Spillane novel. But it has a few moments.What makes this movie worth watching is the smoking Nicaraguan beauty Barbara Carrera. She has a fully-nude love scene that steals the show. If you're a Barbara Carrera fan, you should rent this movie and fast-forward to that scene (a little over 1 hour into the movie). You won't be disappointed.