Lone Wolf McQuade

Name: Lone Wolf McQuade
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: April 15, 1983
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Barbara Carrera, Chuck Norris, Dana Kimmell, David Carradine, Jorge Cervera Jr.

1983

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: April 15, 1983 | PG

Starring: Barbara Carrera, Chuck Norris, Dana Kimmell, David Carradine, Jorge Cervera Jr., L.Q. Jones, Leon Isaac Kennedy, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell

Summary: The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.

Director: Steve Carver

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Western

Rating: PG

Runtime: 107 min

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Roger Ebert

This is an action movie. It makes no apology for that. But it's high-style action. Read full review

Duane Byrge

Writer B.J. Nelson has skillfully combined plot elements and situations which draw from the best of Westerns and anti-Establishment cop films. Read full review

Bob Thomas

The plot is simplistic, but the film makes no pretense. It is aimed at the action fans, and it should immensely please them. [11 Apr 1983]

Staff (Not Credited)

Fans of Soldier of Fortune magazine will think they've been ambushed and blown away to heaven by Lone Wolf McQuade. Every conceivable type of portable weapon on the world market is tried out by the macho warriors on both sides of the law in this modern western. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This is one of the better Norris action films, showcasing his astounding martial-arts skills. But the film loses power toward the end when the action bends reality a little too much. Read full review

Bill Cosford

So it's all pretty silly. But it does move along, and the range of weapons is formidable. Steve Carver, who did Norris' An Eye for an Eye, knows how to handle action, though Lone Wolf might have been more convincing had he let any of the bad guys shoot straight. [5 May 1983, p.B10]

Staff (Not Credited)

As senseless violence goes, this is very senseless and very violent. Norris is a Texas Ranger, Carradine an oily Senator smuggling weapons to 'Central American terrorists', but the storyline has more non sequiturs than bodies, which is saying something. Read full review

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Gloom-shroom

Mar 15, 2022

from not liking his partner to liking him and than myself really liking him

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BigDog65

Nov 25, 2020

This is one of the goddamn best movies ive ever seen. I cant believe i went 25 years without seeing this gold standard of a karate cowboy movie

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clem666

Mar 4, 2021

This movie starts with a really long introduction allowing us to deeply get into the atmosphere thanks to the epic music, the caracters' behaviours and the decor. During this first scenes the villain is as incredible as his acting.

When it comes to the main villain he certainly shows someThis movie starts with a really long introduction allowing us to deeply get into the atmosphere thanks to the epic music, the caracters' behaviours and the decor. During this first scenes the villain is as incredible as his acting.

When it comes to the main villain he certainly shows some terrible acting. He is boring and embodies the classic villain able to fight with bare hands while chewing an old cigarillo. Fight scenes are a bit lame since no one bleeds out even during gunfights. For example the FBI black dude get shot in the stomach twice in something like three days but still manages to walk, laugh, fight and win. It seems like they are using some plastic bullets in this movie! Despite this fact I have to admit that stunts are amazing.

The heroines (McQuade's daughter and lover) appear to be particularly useless, constantly helpless and laughable. The romance is effortless, way too predictable and conventional. A lot of women are overly stereotyped and cliché excepted maybe McQuade's ex-wife who defines herself as a strong divorced mother and woman.

The movie contains a lot of product placements with Coca-Cola, Pearl beer and Jack Daniel's amongst others. They didn't even try to hide it! You probably noticed two out of the three brands are alcohol: it is because the hero is an effing alcoholic. I guess it is supposed to make him look cooler...

Some jokes are funny and truly quotable as this movie is an inexhaustible source of memes. The final fight theme is awesome.… Expand

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