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The Specialist
1994
· Movie
· 110 min
D
MEANRANK
50/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5226
- IMDb #5136
- Rotten Tomatoes #5054
- Letterboxd #5131
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5451
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4977
Every rating
10–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 10, highest is Google on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former CIA explosives expert is drawn back into action when a woman seeks his help for a personal vendetta. She wants to eliminate the mobsters who murdered her family years ago. He agrees to use his unique skills to orchestrate their destruction, but their professional relationship becomes complicated by a dangerous attraction.
Details
- Director
- Luis Llosa
- Writer
- Alexandra Seros
- Based on
- a work by John Shirley
- Released
- 7 October 1994
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $45.0M
- Box office
- $170.4M
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