Tockinit not horrible nor great

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

MartinHafer George C. Scott plays a rancher who, along with his son, is exposed to a chemical weapon due to a mistake the Army made. However, instead of being up front about it, the military places doctors on the case (Barnard Hughes and Martin Sheen) who lie continually to the man...not letting him know that his son had died and that his prognosis is grim. When he does discover they've been lying to him, he decides to go out in a blaze of glory...with a series of violent attacks in order to try to get the faceless military to pay for their crimes.While the plot is good, the execution isn't. It's simply a guy going Rambo and killing a few people in a somewhat pointless rampage. The overall feeling is grim and awful and it's a movie no one can enjoy. Now I am NOT saying a film about chemical weapons need to be fun....but it should have more depth than this. Violent and depressing.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** Bravo performance by George C. Scott as sheep rancher Dan Logan who by finally realizing that him and his 12 year old son Chris, Nick Beauvy, as well as his sheep were exposed to the deadly MX3 nerve gas by the US Army while out camping that he takes matters into his own hands. That by going to war against the US military in the area not caring for a moment whom he hurts or kills, innocent or guilty, that he comes in contact with. Logan hospitalized with his son at a local military hospital are kept by the army doctor Major Hilford, Martin Sheen, from knowing the seriousness of their illnesses to prevent any panic from spading in the area but that soon falls completely apart. That after Chris dies and his father Dan Logan, who's been kept in the dark about his son's condition, finds out about it!Knowing that he himself doesn't have long to live Logan having nothing to lose goes berserk arming himself with an arsenal of weapons and explosive and heads for the facility that produced the MX3 nerve gas planning to wipe it, and those in it, off the face of the map. It's then that the US military stationed at Ft. Howard sends a complete combat unit supported by some half dozen attack helicopters to stop Logan and the carnage that he's creating! With an out of control and suicidal Logan that's not an easy task from them or anyone else who tries to get in his way.****SPOILERS**** As expected it was the MX3 nerve gas not the military who, despite all the damage he did, were reluctant to put him down that in the end did the guy in. Still Logan made his point by exposing what happened that caused heads to roll that allowed this disaster to happen and be covered up. Great man against the system film with George C. Scott, who also directed it, at his very best as the outraged father on the warpath against the US Government. Sadly a number of Logan's victims were totally innocent of the crimes committed against him and his son Chris and towards the end of of movie, by letting a trucker that he kidnapped free, he finally realized that. That was about the only right thing that Logan did in the entire movie but only after all the damage by him was already done.P.S Check out Richard Basehart as Logan's friend Dr. Roy Cardwell who tries to talk him out of taking it out on the US military for what it, by accident, did to him and his son as well as his sheep. Who in the end was himself almost shot, by US Army sentries, for trying to get the by then totally crazed Logan to surrender before he himself is shot and killed with in fact the MX3 nerve gas by shutting his respiratory system got to do to him first!

jmillerdp (FULL SPOILERS)A lot of potential, but little worth watching. George C. Scott's first directorial effort is about a father who loses his son to the Army's chemical weaponry. He is also dying, and goes on a rage-filled tirade against the chemical factory. He ends up dead at the end, destroys the factory (although the chemicals were already removed), and the Army remains unaffected. Nothing comes to light, and no one is prosecuted for what happened.So, what's the point? Don't know. Too bad, when you have a great actor like Scott on screen and at the helm.***** (5 Out of 10 Stars)

Rodrigo Amaro This directorial debut of George C. Scott is not a disappointment in his direction of actors and himself; he conducts some effective dramatic sequences, some interesting thrilling scenes and almost creates a relevant story. In simple words: he plays Dan Logan, a rancher who wants to avenge his son's death during a failed military experiment where both were exposed to a nerve gas that also killed Dan's livestock. By hearing this summary, one might get easily involved with it but the movie plays it in the wrong way by sticking to a pointless revenge instead of making us relate with the main character. Since we live in a most politically correct era (I think!), most of the ideas perpetrated in "Rage" are dated, only works because of the 1970's context where the nation's leader at the time was Nixon and that same man years later would say that when a president does something that is considered illegal by the eyes of the public then such man isn't doing anything illegal. Blame all his wrongdoings on the politics, the system and its seduction. The same can be said of Dan. Blame it on the gas exposure, that's why he reacts in such an uncontrolled way. The example comes from above. Some viewers have said that they lost sympathy for him after all the innocent he killed (policeman, security officers and such). He lost my attention when he shot a cat that was protecting its owner from Dan's threats. It gets worse: by the time he's committed in blowing the laboratory responsible for creating the gas, he enters a room where several animals are locked in cages, future guinea pigs for the company. And do you think Dan sets them free? No, he leaves the place and stick to the plan, probably thinking "You've killed my livestock, my sheep's, you'll lose yours as well". It's understandable that he was under a lot of stress, he feared for his son, didn't get much information about his condition as he got worsened and wasn't warned about his death by anyone. But why no try to go through the proper channels? Why not spreading to the media about what was going on? Why not sue the people who got involved in this tragedy? It breaks my heart to see such a story with plenty of potential going to waste turned into a simplistic and almost silly film. Everything would be in a great tune if it wasn't for a script that prefers to focus on a dumb revenge instead of being an intelligent picture with a great message to present. I don't think Logan was pushed against the wall all that much, and if the character was smart he would find ways to make the military look bad. And here's a weird plot hole: how in the world the media people knew about his son's death, broadcasting on the radio about it when the military tried to hide the story at all costs? Just arrest the screenwriter.Scott's effort as a director were quite impressive, nice staging of scenes, filled of powerful dramatic moments (the scene where Chris, Dan's son, goes on shock, twitching in bed was quite scary), and the cast did a good job (Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicholas Beauvy and Ed Lauter). But the message and the lack of idealism kills any possibility of making "Rage" something worth seeing. 5/10