The Specialist

"The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld."

Oct 7 1994 R 1h 50m
Action, Drama, Thriller

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

Plot

Ray Quick is a bomb expert who worked for the CIA along with a guy named Ned Trent, who's extremely demented. When they have a falling out, Ray becomes a freelancer who lives off the grid. A woman named May Munro contacts and wants him to kill the three men who killed her family years ago, who work for the Leon crime family. Ray does it and after killing the first one, the Leons need to find the one who did it and it turns out Ned is now working for them and they task him with finding the bomber. The Leons get him to work with the police and he looks for the bomber. In the meantime Ray, while working on getting the others, can't help but follow May wherever she goes.

Written by

John Shirley, Alexandra Seros

Directed by

Luis Llosa

Cast

Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, Peru

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures, Iguana Producciones, Jerry Weintraub Productions

Languages

English

Awards

4 wins & 7 nominations

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