Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

bobnmer Don't sell this film short! There are more inaccuracies in this film then I care to mention, but the need for the unions of the day to enlist the underworld (mob) for their protection was real. Law enforcement was on the side of whoever could pay the most back in those days and the big business anti-Union folks had all the money. If you work for a living, you have to pay homage to the unions. If not for them we would all still be working for fifty cents a day!! This movie does do a great job of showing the good that the unions did and how they succumbed to the corruption that power and greed visit on any entity no mater the good intentions. Everyone who sells their labor to a business should watch this film.

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.

muzafar.h.bokhari (amraampk) This is in my opinion an almost forgotten kind of film which is itself is marvelous and unique in a way that for the first time it really showed the metal of Stallone 's inside acting talent which was later faded due to his personification of roles like Rambo , Rocky etc. Some how Sylvester Stallone really managed to throw some power performance in his serious complex character of this movie. I with very difficulty found this film , but before watching an old clip at the you tube i truly understood that it would be the movie containing Stallone s original acting capabilities. Now i wonder why Stallone did nt get any academy award nomination for his performance. Those who are his critics now must realize that Sly always had capabilities of being an actor , the thing happened was being labeled and stamped as a pure action hero after appearing in full action flicks like Rambo ,demolition man ,tango & cash.

dwissba This film proved that Sly could really act in lead dramatic role. What has happened since have been sub-par performances (although big grossing films) from Sly. This film is about Johnny Kovak, a blue collar factory worker during the 1930's who rises to the top of a national union called F.I.S.T or Federation of Interstate Truckers. It was said it was loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa who like johnny's character vanishes at the end of the film. This film really captured what it must have been like in the days before there was such a thing as worker safety, and that sticking your neck out to support a union would have gotten you killed. No one could have played this part better than Sly with his street smart looks, and tough guy persona which works in this film and does not lead to cheesy moments as his other films did. In this film it was about survival. Also what is interesting about this film is how it shows how power corrupts even the best of people when they are giving too much of it. Johnny Kovak rose to the top and gained a lot of power but in the process made enemies with the men who helped get him there. In any case if you are familiar with the story of Jimmy Hoffa you will understand when you see this film.Too bad Sly never stayed with these types of roles....he really could act...