Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

lukem-52760 THE EXTERMINATOR (1980) is one hell of a brutal Thriller set in that scary as hell & violently dark battleground known as 70s/80s New York City, A very dangerous place full of savage scum, violent gangs, brutal gangsters & seedy sickos just a place to breed a Vigilante like John Eastland portrayed by the very good & underrated Robert Ginty, here Eastland is an ex Vietnam soldier who came from the crazy war into the even crazier City Streets & flips after his best friend & war buddy is beaten by a vicious gang so badly he's paralysed & that sets off this Great VIGILANTE Eastland on his mission to exterminate all scum. A truly fantastic Thriller that's dark & moody & very realistic with Ginty giving his best performance of his career!!! This movie is up there with TAXI DRIVER & DEATH WISH & all the other gritty revenge films, this is truly a Cult CLASSIC

rodrig58 Have you ever seen a man put in a huge grinders and made minced meat? You will see it here, is happening to a mobster who was pooping in a toilet and is kidnapped by the good guy. The good guy is John Eastland(Robert Ginty), an ex-Vietnam soldier, now a vigilante who is avenging his friend almost killed by a band of villains. You will see also a state senator from New Jersey who likes to rape underage boys with an incandescent iron, plus other... attractions. A special real attraction is Dr. Megan Stewart, played by Samantha Eggar, the beautiful from "The Collector"(1965), "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun"(1970) and "The Walking Stick"(1970). The cop played by Christopher George (Detective James Dalton) who is on the trail of the vigilante, is assassinated by a CIA sniper, because there are only two months until the elections... After that, in the final images we see the Twin Towers from New York(21 years before being transformed into a pile of rubble) and what is just a pathetic symbol of America(and this whole world), the Statue of Liberty.

bensonmum2 John Eastland (Robert Ginty) sets out to avenge the death of a buddy at the hands of a gang of street thugs.If you can't tell by rating, I'll spell it out - I'm not much of a fan of The Exterminator. Let me start by saying that I don't have anything against low-budget or violent films. If you look through some of the other reviews I've written you'll see plenty of glowing comments for movies with lower budgets than this one. You'll also see that I've got a lot of positive things to say about a number of very violent films. But it doesn't work here. The problems:1. No plot - I gave the movie a one sentence plot summary at the start of this, and that's probably more than The Exterminator deserves. Instead of a coherent plot, it's one of those movies with a series of set-pieces randomly thrown together. There's no flow to the film and definitely no logic. Things happen more for shock value than to move the story along.2. Acting - I realize this is a personal preference, but I'm not a fan of Robert Ginty's style of acting. I know he has fans, but to me, he's just doesn't fit the part he's asked to play here. He doesn't look like a killer - he looks more like a car salesman. One small example is the scene where he's prepping bullets. Look at his hands. Those aren't the hands of a killer. Those hands haven't done the things John Easland has done. He's the wrong guy for the part.3. The love story - I was really annoyed by the love story subplot with Christopher George and Samantha Eggar. I didn't necessarily have a problem with them as actors, but their screen time together was stomach churning. A midnight picnic in Central Park, love- making in a empty hospital room - ridiculous.I really wanted to like this movie. As I said, low-budget violence is okay with me. But I had way too many problems to rate this higher than a 3/10.

Bezenby A vigilante is walking the streets of New York, dispatching villains using various methods. Can cop Christopher George find the exterminator? Well, only if he can stop romancing that doctor for five minutes, which he doesn't. This gritty, violent slice of eighties goodness is well worth tracking down. I remember the posters from back when I was a kid. Where else can you see a mobster getting fed into an industrial mincer, a nonce getting covered in petrol and torched, and a truly jaw dropping decapitation?It helps greatly that Mr movie gold, Christopher George (from Grizzly, City of the Living Dead, Pieces and Enter the Ninja) and Robert Ginty (from Whitefire and Codename: Vengeance) are both excellent here, and both sadly no longer with us either. Sigh.