Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Karl Ericsson This is a movie about worker's right against owners. This is a movie about slaves protesting their utter humiliation against owners, whose abominations know no end. This is a movie about power-society.What is the solution against people who think it's all-right that they have everything while others have nothing? What is the solution against people who look at you as if you were vermin, since there is no other way they could look at you when they think it is quite OK that they have everything and you nothing? The Nazi's looked at the unfortunate Jews (the rich ones were in USA and did not have a record of outdoing themselves for their racial brothers - look at "Amen" by Costa-Gavras) as vermin and as long as they could look at their brothers human beings that way, they had no trouble to exterminate them. Some realized their mistake and killed themselves afterward.Will the owners realize their mistake? Don't count on it, as this movie shows! Violence give rise to counter-violence if you cannot activate a whole population as in Venezuela or Gandhi's India. Yes, if the owners will have the whole population rise against them, they may, paradoxically, survive! If they just get a sufficient large minority against them, they will have the French Revolution and will maybe not survive. I guess they haven't thought of that one - or maybe they have, if you consider recent developments.There's no difference in what you take with you when you leave this world abut a giant difference in what you leave behind.

ma-cortes One of the best Stallone films set in the 1930s in which gives a good performance as a worker who joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local factory and being accompanied by a fine supporting cast . It deals with a love between a man, a country, the people he led and the woman he loved . Johnny Kovak (Sylvester Stallone) is an employee who works his way up as organizer and leader of Federation Interstate Truckers . Meanwhile he falls in love and marries a worker (Melinda Dillon) . As he climbs higher and higher thanks his connection with the Mob (Tony LoBianco). As his methods become more corrupt and ultimately senator Madison (Rod Steiger ) begins a campaign to discover the truth about his allegedly greedy practices .This poignant film packs emotion , thrills , a love story political events and being quite entertaining though contains some ,predictable moments and cliché-ridden . The picture details biographic events about an Union leader , Jimmy Hoffa-lookalike, from his starts until his fall . Jewison cast some largely known actors as Sylvester Stallone , Melinda Dillon , Peter Boyle and a remarkable support cast as Richard Herd , Tony LoBianco , Peter Donat , Kevin Conway, Cassie Yates , Richard Herd and the veteran Henry Wilcoxon and several others . Stallone , also screenwriter along with Eszterhas creates an even more interesting character than Rocky Balboa . Atmospheric musical score including moving sounds by Bill Conti and appropriate cinematography by excellent cameraman Laszlo Kovacs.The motion picture is well produced and directed by Norman Jewison . He is a prestigious and veteran filmmaker, his greatest film is of course Jesus Christ Superstar . He directed successful movies as Fiddler on the roof , Agnes of God , Moonstruck , Thomas Crown and Cinncinati Kid . However , he also got some flops as Bogus, In country , Only you and Other's people money and his last picture titled The statement . He considers The Hurricane (1999) the last in a trilogy of racial bigotry movies he's realized, the first two being In the Heat of the Night (1967) and A Soldier's Story (1984). Rating : Good, worthwhile seeing for its epic moments and thought-provoking issues .

Gavno I was never impressed with Sylvester Stallone, or his movies.The Italian Stallion may have made a splash by showing off his pectorals and oversize guns in the ROCKY and RAMBO flicks... and he got some underground success in a few youthful, starving actor porno flicks. But the ability to impress teenage boys by making war, or the movie house Trenchcoat Brigade by making love, doesn't equal acting ability. ANY young Hollywood wannabe can do it.F*I*S*T was a sleeper out there... a film that was released without the big promotion treatment that Hollywood specializes in for turning loser films into box office winners. I'd never heard of it until a friend showed me a VHS tape of the film.He showed it to me because he knows that I'm a fan of Norman Jewison's work. Norman is a piece of the OLD Hollywood... he'd have been right at home in the old Warner Brothers stable. He's a man who makes movies that have a social conscience; films that are ABOUT SOMETHING.In my estimation, if you're a young actor you can't miss when Jewison is directing. He has a gift for getting the VERY BEST out of any actor who works for him. So it was with Stallone.Sylvester Stallone emerged as an actor with PRODIGIOUS acting chops in the first 30 minutes of F*I*S*T... Labor organizer Johnny Kovak came through the door of a Union meeting, pushing the wheelchair of Joe Harper, a disabled trucker.In a simple, emotional speech, Kovak laid it all on the line in no uncertain terms. Since he couldn't drive, the trucking company didn't care about Joe Harper anymore, but that's OK... Joe is a member of the Federation of Inter State Truckers, and FIST takes care of it's own. The Union will take care of his medical bills, and provide for the family Joe had worked so hard to support.The pure, gut wrenching emotion, outrage and sincerity that Stallone poured into that scene announced to the world that Sylvester Stallone had ARRIVED as an actor to be taken seriously.The part of rough cut, crude Johnny Kovak was a part that was made for Stallone; it fit him like a glove. He could project incredible strength by the soft, laid back delivery of a single line.In his first labor negotiations... "We're gonna cut 'em off, Pal. You know that?". The startled management negotiator laughingly responded "What did you say?". "Your BALLS, Pal. We're gonna cut 'em off and shut you DOWN!" Kovak replied. "You're suffering from small minds and fat asses!". Johnny Kovak was a smoldering volcano, ready to explode.Backed up by a powerful supporting cast, Stallone charged through the film like a bull.A Jewison project always seems to attract the best acting talent around... in this case, Peter Boyle and Rod Steiger. Stallone's talent stood side by side with them; he showed that he was able to match them, taking as well as giving. The scenes where they're together, especially the Congressional hearings where he clashed head to head with Steiger, are titanic.F*I*S*T is a film that's DEFINITELY worth the time.

meetmeiam_goku Earlier, I used to rate Sylvester Stallone only a good actor. But the day i saw this movie of him, i really respect him a lot as an actor. He is undoubtedly one of the finest actor of Hollywood. The way he acted in the film is unbelievable. One of the most powerful performance. This film is quiet simple but very impressive. All have played their part very well in this film. Stallone really has given his 200 percent in his film. But I found the end of the film little bit inappropriate but all over its a fantastic film. Strong story is supported by very strong performances which makes this film so special. It contains every aspects of a film i.e. love, emotions, action n etc. Its truly a movie which we must see before die.