dworldeater Action Jackson is an overlooked action classic that lives up to its name. As awesome as 80's cinema was, black action heroes were scarce. The blaxsploitation era has gone and stars like Wesley Snipes and Denzel Washington have not made their mark yet. To fill that void, enter Carl Weathers to deliver a tough, cool performance as Detroit supercop Jericho "Action" Jackson. Opposite Carl Weathers is Craig T Nelson as auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane, who brings his A game here as an excellent villain. This is the directorial debut of Craig R Baxley who worked as action/stunt director with Weathers on Predator. Baxley delivers action galore and keeps it fast and loose with lots of one liners, fights and explosions. Also from Predator, Bill Duke appears as a police superior and Sonny Landham appears as a dope dealer. For good looks we have an early performance from Sharon Stone and also singer Vanity. Action Jackson has all the action that fans of the genre need and Carl Weathers did a hell of a job as the lead in this film.

SnoopyStyle Action Jackson (Carl Weathers) is a tough Detroit police sergeant. Captain Armbruster (Bill Duke) orders him to attend a ceremony awarding a Man of the Year award to powerful industrialist Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson). Jackson had been demoted and lost everything after a violent takedown of Peter's psycho son Sean. Peter has a team of assassins who massacres union leaders of Peter's company. His wife Patrice (Sharon Stone) cooperates with Jackson. Peter kills her and plants her body in Jackson's apartment. Jackson escapes with Peter's lounge-singing drug-addicted mistress Sydney Ash (Vanity).Carl Weathers is a charismatic actor. This is more or less a blaxploitation movie. He could do better and he has great skills. The movie is called Action Jackson and there is plenty of action. The thing is that Weathers needs to start the movie with a big action scene. The big starting action is done without context and without thrills. He finally gets one later on with a nice explosive car chase. I don't like the way Weathers ends the confrontation which struck me as being silly and again reeks of blaxploitation. Craig T. Nelson could be a good villain but I don't buy his physical prowess. He doesn't need to be a physical threat for him to be scary. Vanity is close to being annoying. The girl is as sexy as hell but I don't like her songs. Her acting is also lacking. There are some good parts and I absolutely love Weathers. That's why he deserves something better than this.

rollins-19092 I love cheesy action movies. Not just the modern stuff like Expendables but some of the old ones modern audiences don't quite know much about. Stuff like Eraser, Cobra, Death Wish, and so on. The parts of the genre that were fantastic in the thrill of their heydey but haven't quite had a lasting impact with those youngins' like me today.Action Jackson is a terrible action movie.It's a real shame because it had a lot going for it. Good actors who can turn in solid performances, some star power on the heels of Rocky, and what seems to be a pretty decent budget. I've thought quite a bit about the points I can make on how they use a lot of telling not showing on building up the hero, the ungodly amount of exposition, and so on. But really... it can be summed up with one statement.In the movie Action Jackson... Action Jackson doesn't have a single action scene until 38 minutes until the movie.That's like an entire episode of "Sons of Anarchy." And the action scene isn't even good or built up to. It sort of comes out of nowhere and ends unceremoniously.I was hoping this movie would be a good old fashion action cheese fest. But it soooooo sloooooow. Maybe the movie got better after that. I couldn't tell ya, I fell asleep.

CorblimeyGuvnors Action Jackson (1988) is a throwback to the days of Blackpolitation. All the nasty characters are white power hungry bigots. Carl Weathers (of Rocky fame), plays the title character. He has been demoted from Lieutenant to Sergeant, due to pulling the arm off of someone "he had a spare" says Jackson, to his boss. Jackson sets involved in trying to stop a big wig crime lord setting up one of his people to run for high office and control government. On the way there is lots of fist fighting and violent action. Best thing about this is the stunning Vanity, playing a junkie singer, and she is not really know for her acting prowess. I just found the story to be confusing and rather boring and I found it hard to engage with the film. Most people seem to like it so I am in the minority.