A sleeper hit, Betrayed travels deep into the dark side of humanity and its grim message is more topical today than ever before.
My advice is to just watch it before reading any summaries or reviews.
Kategoria: 1988
#413 Cocktail (1988)
Cocktail, starring young Cruise in the very peek of his popularity is a refreshing take on the ’young hungry go-getter in the big city’ genre – and just about as 80s as they come.
#398 Off Limits (1988)
Beautiful and technically flawless, Off Limits fails to establish the given location and time, and feels like 80s buddy cop movie taking place in Bankok rather than late 60s Saigon.
#397 Messenger of Death aka Avenging Angels (1988)
Bronson’s change from his usual typecast role of a revenging everyday man to an investigating reporter is a success and Messenger of Death is one solid quilty pleasure action movie.
#387 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese’s 3-hour spectacle is a daring and controversial film probably best appreciated by those who enjoy biblical drama.
#384 Big (1988)
Tom Hanks shines as the lead in Big, a fantasy tale that back in 1988 offered us kids a peak to the adults’ world, and now in 2016 it reminds us again what was it to once be a kid.
#383 Caddyshack II (1988)
Caddyshack 2 copies all the concepts and characters from the first movie and replaces them with inferior versions. Except for that theme song by Kenny Login, which rocks!.
#355 Above the Law (1988)
Although it tries to cram far too many plots and concepts in one movie, Seagal’s debut film has lots of well co-ordinated action and is – quite surprisingly – not that bad at all.
#353 Rambo III (1988)
Rambo’s back with infinite ammo and health in the most expensive and visually stunning movie of the series, but also the most half-hearted and the least significant one.
#345 Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
While I always applaud the effort of trying to go campy, Earth Girls Are Easy fails to impress as either a comedy or a movie and mostly just ends up a mess of a movie borrowing from the 50s space films and the vehicles of the era.
Earth Girls Are Easy does have some limited watchability due to its cast, just don’t except the experience to be side-splittingly funny.
#317 1969 (1988)
It’s easy to blame 1969 not fully capturing the essence of the sixties, but many of the scenes and events here of the time that split the nation are still well written and executed.
#315 Rain Man (1988)
Deeply touching and truly a pinnacle in both Cruise’s and Hoffman’s careers, Rain Man has stand the test of time and can be considered one of the classics of the eighties.
#312 Coming to America (1988)
Coming to America, fish out of water immigration story of different cultures clashing but managing to live in the same country is still topical and as American as apple pie.
#311 Red Scorpion (1988)
Red Scorpion beats the odds and manages to find originality in the clichéd action genre. The cinematography is flawless and Lundgren proofs he has plenty of star quality.
#307 License to Drive (1988)
Shot in the height of Haim’s and Feldman’s movie careers, License to Drive is great fun and has is all what is takes to be one of the those defining teenage comedies of the 80s.
#298 Hero and the Terror (1988)
More a thriller than action movie, Hero and the Terror is a pretty mature and balanced film, but due to its chosen genre it suffers a lot of having a totally forgettable baddie.
#293 Dirty Harry: The Dead Pool (1988)
The Dead Pool has stronger concept and production quality than its predecessor, but – as before – the last Dirty Harry movie is again kept alive ultimately only by Eastwood himself.
#275 Halloween 2015: Poltergeist III (1988)
While the third and the last part is patchy and uneven, Poltergeist III does make up for its heavily cut budget with an very imaginative use of camera and smoke & mirror tricks, but only partly so.
#272 Halloween 2015: Night of the Demons (1988)
A centerfold right out of Fangoria magazine, Night of the Demons is gory, ruthless, sexist and utter nonsense. In other words: Heaps of fun, and 100% eighties!
#269 Halloween 2015: Bad Dreams (1988)
Don’t mind the concept which at first seems to be a blatant Nightmare on the Elm Street rip-off, as Bad Dreams has a few nice game changing jacks up its sleeve.