If you’re in the mood for a good old fashioned eighties action flick and you’ve already seen everything with Arnold and Stallone a million times over, give Blind Fury a chance. They call Rutger Hauer the European Paul Newman, but Christopher Walken is probably a more accurate comparison. Both actors are capable of that icy coolness, where they can say sinister things that sound friendly and friendly things that sound sinister. Hauer brings that quality to his heroic role in Blind Fury, and the result is definitely one of our must see movie downloads of the eighties, especially if you’re talking about cool, funny action flicks.

The story follows Hauer as a Vietnam War veteran who was abandoned overseas by his old war buddy. He wound up being taken in by a South Vietnamese village, where he was taught how to defend himself with a samurai sword, in that he could no longer reasonably operate a firearm. He returns to the United States with sword in hand to find the person who left him behind in Vietnam. Interestingly, he’s not out for revenge, he’s out to forgive his old friend and make things right between the two of them.

Along the way, Hauer adopts his old friend’s son for the week, taking him from Miami, Florida to Las Vegas, Nevada in an attempt to reunite the boy with his father. He gets in more than enough fights on their quest across the country, making for some really inventive, cool stuff that utilizes the lead character’s blindness as a great angle for interesting fights.

Hauer is almost outclassed by the rest of the cast, including Randal Tex Cobb as Slag, the badguy’s right hand man, who lives up to the name, SLAG! Slag winds up meeting a fitting end that turns out to be one of the best in the history of action movies. In fact all of the badguys get a good come uppance sooner or later, and that’s really what helps to define a great action flick.

The movie really captures the best of what eighties action comedy films were all about. It’s funny, the action is inventive, imaginative, and exciting, and it finds a lot of room for great character development and good storytelling, so while there’s focus on humor and action, that’s not all there is to it. The story is actually somewhat touching.

Ninja legend Sho Kosugi shows up towards the end for really no reason whatsoever, except to get Sho Kosugi in there. He plays a hired sword who arrives in the US from Japan in order to fight Rutger Hauer just so we can get a great fight scene in there between Hauer and a true legend of Ninja themed action movies.

You’ll also get a kick out of the two redneck brothers who work for the big boss. They’re sort of the comedic duo of the film, and their interactions are consistently quite funny.

The movie really does sum up everything that was great about the eighties action comedy flicks. The eighties were a great time for funny, exciting, weird, and imaginative action flicks, and they just don’t make movies like these anymore. It’s really too bad, because there was something really cool about these style of movies.

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