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The Specialist is a good action film for a past his prime action star such as Stalone.  It doesn't push its believability and still comes through with the excitement.  A man who worked for the CIA as an infiltrator and explosives expert has left the agency and now works freelance helping people remove evil from their lives and the world.  The Specialist checks everything out and if it meets his moral standards and criteria for his personal safety (you collect enemies doing this sort of work) then the targets are as good as dead.  This time he has questions about the job before him but gets pulled into it by his emotions.

The Specialist is a decently paced film with a solid mix of intrigue and explosive action.  The characters are memorable and distinctive.  The plot is sort of complicated in the sense of discerning the motives of some of the characters but otherwise straight forward and easy to follow.  The antagonists are sort of stereotypical but well portrayed and it is fun to see them squirm when the tables are turned on them and they are the ones being manipulated, hunted, and such.

The filming locations are run of the mill being neither too memorable nor distracting.  The musical score is presumably fitting or non-present as I have no recollection of it all.  Overall its a good time waster and well worth a sit in front of the television.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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