

The Specialist
The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.
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 parents' 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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $45M
- Box office
- $170.4M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- explosive
- fistfight
- revenge
- organized crime
- urban setting
- explosives expert
- neo-noir
- action hero
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR7 Oct 1994
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1826 Dec 1994
- Physical18DVD25 Sept 1998
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+26 Feb 1995
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1628 Oct 1994
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+26 Jan 1995
FranceFR
- TheatricalU9 Nov 1994
- TVTPT1822 Jan 2026
- TVTPRTL93 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1610 Nov 1994
HungaryHU
- Theatrical165 Jan 1995
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1526 Dec 1994
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1219 Nov 1994
SlovakiaSK
- Theatrical1519 Jan 1995
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1819 Nov 1994
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The Specialist was released on 7 October 1994.
Audience reviews
3- G4/10
Gimly
6/4/2018
A bomber makes for about as heroic a protagonist as you might expect. There is no reason to put yourself through the plodding pretentiousness of _The Specialist_ unless you, like I was, are on some sort of quest to watch the entire 80s-90s Stallone filography. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
- W6/10
Wuchak
7/8/2020
_**Explosive comic book crime thriller with Stallone, Stone and Woods**_ An ex-CIA demolitions expert (Sylvester Stallone) is hired by a grim beauty in Miami (Sharon Stone) to take out the mobsters who murdered her parents when she was a girl. Rod Steiger and Eric Roberts play high society gangsters while James Woods is on hand as the specialist’s rival, who works for the mob. "The Specialist" (1994) is a com…
- J5/10
JPV852
7/18/2020
Decent action can't overcome thin characters plus Stallone and Stone didn't have much chemistry together. At the very least James Woods, once again, goes over-the-top as the villain so he was entertaining. **2.75/5**
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