I, the Jury

American Cinema/Larco/Solofilm. Director Richard T. Heffron; Producer Robert Solo; Screenplay Larry Cohen; Camera Andrew Laszlo; Editor Garth Craven; Music Bill Conti; Art Director Robert Gundlach

Armand Assante
Barbara Carrera
Laurene Landon
Alan King
Geoffrey Lewis
Paul Sorvino

Almost 30 years after the first screen edition of Mickey Spillane's first Mike Hammer novel, the update of I, the Jury has all the updated violence, nudity, wit and style that was missing from the puritanical 1953 original.

By comparison, the souped-up remake is hard as nails, with Armand Assante plausibly macho and ruggedly sexy as the amoral private eye who avenges the murder of his old Vietnam war buddy.

Scripter Larry Cohen's plotting is swift, suitably enigmatic and well stocked with well-stacked and well-exposed babes, of which the prime specimen is Barbara Carrera in an arousingly arranged seduction scene with Assante.

Carrera is just one of numerous villains as the operator of a not-to-be believed sex therapy clinic. The ultimate heavy in this tangled tale is proficiently portrayed by Barry Snider as a former CIA operative whose computerized exurban fortress is penetrated by Hammer in a penultimate sequence of rousing action.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1982. Running time: 109 MIN.

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