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Code of Silence (1985)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Chicago for the Chuck Norris classic Code of Silence, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Norris plays Eddie Cusack, the head of a squad of Chicago cops who finds himself in a gang war when a drug bust goes bad and crime boss Luis Camacho (Henry Silva) wants revenge on the mob. Cusack also finds himself shunned by his fellow cops when he refuses to back corrupt cop Cragie (Ralph Foody), who kills an unarmed bystander during the drug bust and tries to cover it up. Zach and Chris discuss how this feels like Chuck's version of Bullitt or The French Connection, how weird it is to hear Ralph Foody speak non-Home Alone dialogue, Dennis Farina's comedic relief, and, oh yeah, the KILLER ROBOT that Chuck uses in the explosive finale.
You can watch Code of Silence on Prime Video and PlutoTV. Next week, we're getting into the gaming state of mind as we head to PAX East by watching Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which turns 15 later this month.
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Introduction and Host Introductions
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast the week of April 28th, 2025. ah twenty twenty five I'm your host, Zach. Hey, I'm your co-host, Chris.
Celebrating Code of Silence's Anniversary
00:00:28
Speaker
And this week we are following the code of silence and talking about the Chuck Norris classic.
00:00:33
Speaker
We just celebrated its 40th anniversary, came out May 3rd, 1985. And ah definitely coming out like prime Chuck Norris director. I don't know if you saw like the movies that were like around this time for Chuck Norris, Chris, but I mean, peak Chuck Norris.
00:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, this is like, he was coming off of fighting ninjas. He was about, I think he just came back for fighting Delta Force. Delta Force was the year after this. Oh, okay. So like, I mean, it's one of those things where hit Chunk Mania was like going strong and people want a piece of him.
00:01:09
Speaker
Yeah, I think the first Missing Action was the year before this. Missing Action 2 was the same year as this. Invasion USA was the same year as this. And then Delta Force is the year after. So, like, yeah, just prime Chuck Norris cuts there.
00:01:27
Speaker
I mean, not to insult the guy, it's one of those things where, like, he's the same character in almost all those movies. Yes. Well, I feel like there's, like, i feel it's like four or five different characters Chuck Norris plays.
Plot Overview and Film Comparisons
00:01:40
Speaker
Like, he's he's either, like a like, special forces soldier or, ah like, ah a martial arts guy wants to fight evil martial arts guys or ninjas or a cop or like what there's like one other like well there's like the family like uh the like comedian chuck norris where he's light-hearted and he is trying to like help like he's trying to like
00:02:07
Speaker
begrudgingly, like, help someone. and don't know. something It's weird, because, like like, I think about, like, was it? Cop Dog? The one where it's, like, him. he still He's still a cop, though.
00:02:19
Speaker
Yeah, okay, so I guess the role is that he's still a cop, but, like, this one, like, he doesn't have a problem with his partner, because he does everything by himself. Yeah. If he had a, I i thought this movie was gonna be, like, he has to, like, be with the new guy, or be with that partner he, like,
00:02:36
Speaker
doesn't really care for, but he sort of just abandons his partner. That guy. you know like Yeah, basically everyone. He's I do it myself. I'm a little wolf. and The thing is, the partners really don't put up that much of a fight. They're like, I get it.
00:02:52
Speaker
So it's not like we don't have that. And i also like the use that this isn't a like role where Chuck has to like do something outside of his skill set.
00:03:05
Speaker
This movie begins with him like running and gunning, and it ends with him running and gunning. Yes. It's not like, oh, you know thanks to the like thanks to the power of friendship, or or like this MacGuffin, now I'm a better person.
00:03:19
Speaker
It's like, there's no growth for him. He was always right.
00:03:26
Speaker
Although I also feel like this is, well, so this was originally gonna ah was i guess originally written as like ah the fourth Dirty Harry movie, which obviously never, like it did turn into a Dirty Harry movie.
00:03:40
Speaker
But definitely, this movie feels like a throwback to like Bullet or like the French Connection. Like it kind of has that, like this is like Chuck Norris' like Bullet, basically. Like, he's got, like, a cool he's he's at the cool car. He's, like, he's wearing, like, a turtleneck in one point. He's wearing, like, cool clothes. Like, he's, like, the, like, I'm the i'm the cool cop.
00:04:00
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. The Chicago police, like, dress code is whatever you feel like it. whatever Whatever squad Chuck Norris runs, which is just full of, like, the most eclectic group of cops.
00:04:12
Speaker
There's, like, every age range, every kind of, like, type of guy is on his squad. Yeah, like, it do Is the bench in there so good that you just join at whatever age and
Key Scenes and Character Dynamics
00:04:26
Speaker
that's it? Like, you just have, like, a great time?
00:04:28
Speaker
Well, what is the retirement policy? Because, yeah, because Craggy should have, like, I'm i'm i'm totally with Chuck Norris, like, Craggy should have retired, like, you know, a decade ago. yeah I forgot that that guy's in this movie because I don't see... I didn't really realize how many movies that guy was in.
00:04:47
Speaker
Yes. I just remember him blatantly from Home Alone. Ralph Foonie. who yeah it's it's so It's so bizarre seeing him like have other dialogue besides keep
00:04:58
Speaker
ah keep the change, you filthy animal, or something just like that. Just all of his Home Alone lines. It's so jarring, because I think if... if If you were a kid at the time, and you your dad, or some adult who probably shouldn't have taken you see Code of Silence, and then you saw this, and then, like, what, three years later?
00:05:18
Speaker
Five years later? ah Home Alone rolls around, and now you're, like, a teen, and you're like, oh, like, it was the and second antagonist from Code of Silence, and now in this child's movie that a generation of children are gonna grow up to be, like... That's the...
00:05:36
Speaker
It's flippy animal guy. Gunning down people in both movie in all three movies, though. so Oh, yeah. like he's He's not a good guy in any of those movies. No.
00:05:48
Speaker
And then the theyre opening the opening sting, like like apparently it's it's taken them months to like kind of figure out this like operation. like the chief like There's like an angry chief when it fails, or like when it kind of fails.
00:06:02
Speaker
It's like, i spent we spent millions of dollars of tax or like thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and several months on this thing operation, Chuck, and you failed. What did we get for it?
00:06:13
Speaker
But it's this whole like undercover operation where they're posing as garbage men. They got like multiple guys all over the place. And like Chuck has, what, seven guys out of the squad? Six or seven guys of the squad?
00:06:27
Speaker
Yeah, ah it's a crazy like um undercover sting, but it seems like only for like one gig, because they don't seem like regular undercovers. I think for this one gig, they all went undercover.
00:06:39
Speaker
Yeah, and then their main guy going undercover is not even a cop, don't think. I think he's just an informant. They're like, that you gotta go in undercover for us, like Huggy Bear, whatever first his name was. like like They sent him in with ah like it ah the actual...
00:06:56
Speaker
like, criminal, like, an actual, like, 80s, like, coke dealer guy, and then there's... A Mame Vice, like, character. He's all, like, fidgety, he's all mad, and it just agitated, and everyone that room is just casually doing a drug deal.
00:07:09
Speaker
And it, like, goes well. Like, it just seems like if it didn't have that surprise raid, they would have walked away and been fine.
00:07:18
Speaker
Yeah, they get, they get, they get, uh, there's, like, a ah heist happens... A rival gang does... ah Actually, a pretty, like, smart kind of, like, they attack from the other... built Like, the ah adjacent building and, like, go across on, like, a catwalk kind of set up.
00:07:34
Speaker
sort of like So it's, like, kind of the element the sp surprise is on their side, and they, you know, gut everyone down, steal the coke. Well, they steal the coke. I think they steal the money. those They think they're really interested in drugs. Yeah, I think they just couldn't flip drugs, so they wanted... They just wanted cash. Cash.
00:07:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And it makes sense, because like they they just were not... i See, that's the thing That's the crazy thing about this movie, because they make it seem like it's this sophisticated like crime gang versus another gang, but I guess in the 80s, a definition of like a gang is that it's just another like group of like reckless criminals that have to be more than one person. and i it I think they're like the mob. They're like Italian mob.
00:08:16
Speaker
Oh. Because it's like Uncle Sale is like the head of the mob, and then the Tony Luna, crazy Tony Luna is the main guy that's like doing this heist um and then theyre they attack the Camacho crime gang who is the other like the other big I guess gang in Chicago who are run by Henry Silva the great Henry Silva like 80's bad guy extraordinaire Henry Silva
00:08:46
Speaker
who was Who was thinking, like, didn't he fight Chuck Norris already? But then that was Richard Lynch in Invasion USA. the other The other major, like, 80s bad guy and everything. yeah
00:08:59
Speaker
And yeah, everything goes crazy. ah chuck's Chuck's partner, Dennis Farina, gets shot in the foot. Which, luckily for him, is, like, the most, like, if you're gonna get shot, I guess that's the best way to get shot. Yeah.
00:09:12
Speaker
It's not even like a shoulder injury or or a shot in the arm. It's just like, they shoot him very like in a safe spot to be shot where basically he heals like in like two days, like in the in the movie time.
00:09:26
Speaker
he's He's shot in the same way like if he accidentally shot himself in the foot. That's where he got shot, basically.
00:09:33
Speaker
But it's about like he got shot by the guys escaping in the truck. Yeah, it's a quick cut, because you see Dennis Farina, like, round a corner, and then he's shot and falls. And and i just learned from you, Zach, that, like, Dennis Farina is actually, like, a real cop. So this is one of his, like, early roles.
Themes and Side Stories
00:09:52
Speaker
And I can't imagine where it's, like, anyone on his partner force where it's like, hey, Dennis, we saw you that movie. You got shot, like, in the opening scene. You're pretty chic cop in those movies.
00:10:05
Speaker
because yeah And really it's funny, because his character is like more of a is like the comedian character. Yep. So I'm like, did Dennis Farina also take like improv classes? What's the we went to Chicago? like Second City or whatever it is? yeah yes no He went there like after like his shift and then just like learned a few comedy things. because I'm wondering, did Dennis Farina improv some of his like dialogue?
00:10:29
Speaker
He has that fun-running bit where he's like he's constantly pitching... like alternate, like he's basically pitching ideas for him and Chuck Norris to quit the force and just do like some random business, like running like a hot dog stand outside Wrigley Field or like run an alligator farm or like so he has all these like other ideas.
00:10:45
Speaker
i don't I didn't mind it. It's it's a fun like gag. Yeah. And then, um, it makes it seem like they're really good friends, and, like, maybe this is their last... because I feel like Dennis Farino wants to retire, because, like, or he's, like, done with this. He's out the forest, like... An alligator farm is is safer than being a cop in Chicago. And he he also, like, he's, like, he never, like, bails on Chuck, either. Like, whenever else, uh...
00:11:19
Speaker
kind of like, turns on him when because of, like, what happens. Like, Death Fierce is like, nope, i'm I'm with you, man. i'll Even though i have, like, a cast on my foot, I'll still start like, stumble my way to, like, this, like, gang bar or, like, this shootout.
00:11:33
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's also crazy because in the title, Code of Silence, um... it's It was a phrase already for like police not trying to rat on each other.
00:11:44
Speaker
But then it's also like, I guess the mob also has its code of silence so the mob doesn't rat on other mob.
00:11:52
Speaker
Everyone's got code of silence. Everyone's got, yeah. So it's like, I get the met i get like the thing, but I also feel like Chuck could have escalated this so it's like, oh, we have to go in this bar. Like, we have to do this drug raid. And it's like,
00:12:08
Speaker
It's so like dramatic, and then you realize that's not even the last act. That's just like halfway during the movie. I think is the like thing where he realizes he has no friends.
00:12:21
Speaker
well well so During this opening raid, ah soolph Ralph Foodie, Craggy, shoots an unarmed kid and then plants a gun on him. It's like, oh, he putt out of nowhere and I had to shoot him.
00:12:33
Speaker
And then His partner, who's like... the They paired like the youngest cop and the oldest cop together. Even the youngest cop looks like he's 40. Yeah. So there's a rookie named like Coppolis, and he sees everything, but then he... so like He knows Craggy shot this kid in cold blood, but you know the code of silence, the code of the cops, like he doesn't he's not going to turn him in um But Craggy gets like he's like on suspension, there're there's been an investigation, and all that stuff, and then the rest of cops are like,
00:13:04
Speaker
hey, sign this petition like of support for Craggy so we can get him back on the for get back on and duty soon. Which, for alert, I don't think they ever like resolved during this whole movie.
00:13:15
Speaker
Well, they they they they kind of confront him at the end. like when the end when like everyone's like They finally were like, we should probably go help Chuck because he's right. He's like going off himself. But they all, okay, we'll get to that point, but they kind of leave that on the table. like What happened?
00:13:34
Speaker
Yeah, they never did ever like formally... It's not like, oh, Craig, you're fired, or like you're done. or like it' There's kind of this... Copolis is just like, I saw everything. I'm telling truth now. like I definitely saw you shoot that kid.
00:13:49
Speaker
And then everyone's just like, alright. And they just gotta leave him in the locker room. There's a lot weird... Since that's the title of the movie...
00:14:01
Speaker
that like but sounds like the tell the movie There is a lot of like weird side stories going on. and they they kind of like They focus on that for like one scene in the middle of the movie, and it kind of like it kind of like plays at the end, but then there's like so much other stuff happening besides that.
00:14:19
Speaker
right like That plot kind disappears. A lot of the plot's just faded it out of the movie. like The main plot of like Henry Silva wanting get revenge kind of like also disappears for a little bit, and then comes back.
00:14:31
Speaker
Well, okay, here's another thing. So, once they they do, like, we just gotta get revenge, that whole mob is all focused about getting revenge. We don't know about their day-to-day operations, we don't know what other things they're, like, doing to, like, take over a territory or whatever. It's more like, let's just try to keep kidnapping this family.
00:14:52
Speaker
like Murder this family, yeah. white We're wiping out this entire family. butre yeah The Luna family. We're wiping them all out.
Setting and Mob Portrayal
00:15:04
Speaker
And then like the one like Henry Silva's nephew? I don't think it's his son. Yeah, his nephew. yeah like he didn't He didn't die in the raid. he's like he's still there He's still alive. but they're like They attacked them all out.
00:15:19
Speaker
ah operation we got we got take them all out
00:15:26
Speaker
I don't think Henry Silva lost any close family members in that height. No, well, his nephew was injured.
00:15:37
Speaker
I think he died. No, he like hes like he
00:15:45
Speaker
pops up and then shoots one of the guys off the scaffolding. Oh yeah, you're right. And then later on, he has a sling on his arm. So he's the only one that survived... so right like the rate like they the I know, but they're like fire whole they're evil mobs. I think it's it's more like the offense of them attacking them.
00:16:05
Speaker
They have to defend their honor and defend like their like respect.
00:16:12
Speaker
Because they're like they they've been ah they've been insulted by like this other gang attacking them.
00:16:18
Speaker
but Taking it to extreme levels. like ah like you know Kill Tony Ludo, definitely, because like he's like the mean guy behind it, but like wiping out his entire family is like for like this like one heist. man. why they're the mob.
00:16:33
Speaker
80's Chicago. They don't play.
00:16:43
Speaker
So, do you want to talk about the like the like the craziest twist? Because they introduced it fairly early on, but do you want to talk about you yeah but the the big out-of-the-left-field thing that happens in this movie?
The Prowler: Futuristic Elements
00:16:56
Speaker
ah but we let's Let's start with like the beginning.
00:17:00
Speaker
ah So, I don't know, like the second act of this movie is almost like replacing cops. With like new tech. And it it's sort of like.
00:17:13
Speaker
it sort of addresses that like. Hey if cops keep messing up. We'll just replace them with like. Machines. Which is a crazy concept in 1985. Because machines weren't like.
00:17:24
Speaker
Portable yet. They were still hulking. Like war tanks. That they literally just made a smaller version. But. In terms of like. having this roam freely in Chicago is insane.
00:17:39
Speaker
And they bring in like what is looks like a like riot tank. And they just armed it with all weaponry. Yeah, so so they introduce a robot.
00:17:51
Speaker
Like a killer robot. Because you're watching this movie, you think it's oh this you know it's it's pretty it's kind of it's pretty grounded. like you know We're dealing with a cop who shot it as a kid.
00:18:04
Speaker
We're dealing with um like if you if like if cops should yeah do the right thing and inform other cops. like We have rival gangs killing each other. it's like this like gritty crime action movie.
00:18:19
Speaker
And then like a guy from Robocop shows up with a giant robot. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy because like this Chicago police force look like looks like their budget isn't great. That's why a lot of their senior staff still works there.
00:18:36
Speaker
yeah And then it's like, where do they have the budget to bring in robots? its To spend a million, if not more, multiple millions on a...
00:18:47
Speaker
attack a tank attack robot it's not like oh it's shoot it's yeah it doesn't shoot like nets or like you know foam to slow people down or something where it's like not designed to kill but everything about that tank is like kill yeah it's it's it's a full like assault like it's it's it looks like ocp it's like this is like the like ah a pre-precessor like the ed 209 or something like This is like what they made before that. It's like, oh, what if we made it walk?
00:19:16
Speaker
That'd be cool. We had this like ah like kind of like SWAT van with an automated SWAT van, basically, with like machine guns on it. Yeah, it's crazy because then like there's a line in this movie that's like, oh, we expect all you to get trained to operate this. with the What?
00:19:36
Speaker
The giant like remote control that looks like ah like a laser gun, but it's like it's ginormous. like It's the size of someone's head. but you have to like i can't remember all like the crazy...
00:19:51
Speaker
like, Fraser's dad, is is ah John Mahoney, is, like, introducing it, and and then he said he says something about, like, you just have to program something once, and then it, like, automates its, it'll follow, like, hand movements or something. Or basically, it'll, like, automate, you just have to, like, point it in the direct direction, and then it'll, like, start automating itself. Because that's basically what Chuck does at the end, like, because, like, in the big, like, final finale, like, he is just, like, sends into, like, the warehouse and, like, starts blowing away everybody, but I'm um not clear like how it actually functions.
00:20:24
Speaker
I think like the screen is still the kill, so he still has to like control, but I think maybe once you point it at things and it registers it as a threat, it just kills, but you still need to move it.
00:20:36
Speaker
Yeah, think it's I think it's... I don't know if that controller thing is more like a laser pointer or like a laser guide where you like but out point it where you want it to go and then it can detect like threats against it, maybe?
00:20:51
Speaker
they can't wait The kid is vaguely didn't explain it. Remember what this thing is called is the Prowler. The Prowler, yes. Which, what?
00:21:03
Speaker
It's not like, oh, it's the Enforcer. Peacekeeper. Or like the but like backup. you know It's the Prowler. So they want this to like roam the streets for trouble?
00:21:18
Speaker
yeah like like Like OCP, they want to add to it and i just wander the streets and like gun people down for doing crimes.
00:21:27
Speaker
But I guess it's not fully it's not fully like autonomous because you need a like ah cop to like go with it with the but they remote or like with the targeting gun to like target people.
00:21:42
Speaker
but But it's crazy because they introduced that. It's like, hey, here's this giant, this crazy killer robot. And then it's like an hour until it comes back for the finale.
00:21:55
Speaker
like just It just totally disappears it's back to like being like a normal 80s cop action movie. So you just have to remember that they introduced a killer robot. Yeah.
00:22:05
Speaker
And it's like, I think in this era of technology, and I mentioned it's not great, but I don't think it's the highlight of the movie that like it is for us. Cause it's like totally out of from a different movie to have the robot feature. Like yeah as this like secret weapon. Cause it is.
00:22:27
Speaker
It's kind of it's kind of like, I mean, Tangelo cash is already over the top for like most every way, but like, It's kind of like when they get the battle van, basically, at the end of that movie. Where it's just like, where does this come from?
00:22:38
Speaker
Yeah, but the battle van is just a bulldoze through like the main gate. Yeah. But I don't know how in this movie did they like...
00:22:51
Speaker
did they plan to have the Prowler or was that like an extra leftover something and then they like in so like they then said, okay, how do we make a movie around this? You know what i mean? yeah it definitely It definitely feels, because like this is like an Orion Pictures movie, it definitely feels like Orion just had this prop from a modern movie and they're like, ah you this costs us lot of money to use it again in this Chuck Norris movie.
Tonal Shifts and Humor in the Film
00:23:16
Speaker
i don't know, make it like a police robot? robot
00:23:22
Speaker
But yeah yeah, I mean, it definitely it definitely feels like they just had that line around or like it's from another script or another movie that they somehow got into this movie.
00:23:32
Speaker
because this's Because totally, the rest of the movie is like, I think it's trying to be slightly more serious. Like this is like Chuck's like big like, like act it's kind of like an acting showcase for Chuck a little bit where it's like I can do like serious acting along with like, you know, Craig kicking people in the face.
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah. You know what also happy about? The robot is used perfectly just enough as if, like, it's a weapon, because he doesn't try to befriend the robot. doesn't try to say, like, we should embrace technology when it comes to policing. Like, you know, it's it's not a propaganda thing. It's just literally, like, cool.
00:24:09
Speaker
Anyway. It's not his new partner. It's not like, oh, Dennis Farina got shot the leg, Chuck. Here's your new partner, the Prowler. Yeah, and then he's just like, oh, why do I gotta team up with the Prowler?
00:24:20
Speaker
and it's like It's like Johnny Five, just like, I want to be a good cop. It also starts getting a robotic Chicago accent. So it starts out like ah like a typical like robot sounding.
00:24:33
Speaker
And then it it starts like getting more Dennis Ferenga-like, where it's like, hey, Chuck, we should go get a hot dog. Yeah. Italian beef sandwich about here.
00:24:46
Speaker
and then we get on the train and ride around and go for a ball game. and then it But then it also turns on Chuck when like when you like like cat he's like, we turn Craig in. He's in danger to everyone. robot's just snitches get snitches.
00:25:01
Speaker
And just wheels away. yeah like that That would have been hilarious. if if like Let's say they use the robot like right after. so like this They introduce this scene.
00:25:15
Speaker
but By the way, The first act of this movie is setting up the drug bust that goes wrong, the revenge plot, be the damsel in distress character, then a robot...
00:25:29
Speaker
yeah And then it's like, wait, go back to that robot. But then it like does it Then it goes back to the beginning. So let's go back to like, you know, the drug bus. And then let's go back to um internal cop drama.
00:25:42
Speaker
Then let's go back to like the damsel in distress. Like this movie runs in like a pattern. but There's also, like, in the middle, there's a lot of like, weird side stuff in the middle. Like, there's that whole, there's, like, a weird plot or scene where there's this, they introduce, like, these two guys that are gonna, like, rob a bar, and then it turns out it's the bar that all the cops go to.
00:26:01
Speaker
Yeah, they go back to, like, another robber. It's, like, a failed, like, like, thing. But those guys have nothing to do with any, they're not part of the Camachos, they're not any, they they have nothing to do with any other thing going on, they're just, like,
00:26:13
Speaker
It's just this wacky scene of comedy for, like, don't... To do anything, just, like, look at these two wacky guys. this isn't wacky all the cops pull their guns and, like, arrest them in the bar.
00:26:26
Speaker
Well, not... They're probably gonna be like, Code of Silence, and they beat the shit out of these people. I don't know, but you know it is very weird because, like, this movie has, like, comedic beats for something kind of serious.
00:26:41
Speaker
Yeah, there's a scene there's scenes like that, and there's also scenes where ah the entire like Luna family gets gunned down in broad daylight. In, like, brutal fashion. Oh, it's like a Punisher Origins thing, where, like... These people have no... like It's like no rules, just whatever you need to get to this family.
00:27:02
Speaker
it's like it's like It's the grandmother, it's the mom, it's like another... but like aunts or sister or something. There's like another guy, there's like a guy. It's not, it's not the dad. It's not crazy. Tony Luna. It's not, and it's not the daughter who's like, uh, kind of like our main heroine on the run.
00:27:19
Speaker
but yeah, it's like, it's like every other person in the family is, is cut down by, ah guys hiding out in a produce truck that apparently like the Luna family knows this truck because they're like expecting it to show up and like, they can buy like vegetables from them.
00:27:34
Speaker
And it's the person they expect to buy vegetables from. Because they're talking to like it's like the woman selling them like vegetables. Like, oh, look at it. Your peppers are so nice today. like If we get some of those, three guys with machine guns bust out the back are like like cutting them all down. and So they like they like they forced like the produce person to bring them in the truck.
00:27:55
Speaker
they but They found out that the Luna's buying vegetables. They found the truck. They forced the truck driver to like bring them to the house. And then they like killed the truck driver and all the family members.
00:28:07
Speaker
Yeah, it's like... they It's a good... like threat it's like constant escalation of this mob because they're doing like no rule so what else are they willing to do if it's like not honorable anymore so i guess like they they in in the end the the the worst of the two mobs because they started this gang war so it's like they just they're but here's the thing the other other gang doesn't retaliate no
00:28:38
Speaker
Uncle Sale's just hanging on his boat, like, making, like,
Character Relationships and Conflicts
00:28:42
Speaker
stock bets. Ignoring things. Yeah, like, just betting on the stock market or doing insider trading. But there's no, like, war. It's just this other family that is clearly pissed off and, I guess, has better tactics, like, dirtier tactics.
00:28:56
Speaker
Winning.
00:29:00
Speaker
And it seems like um they might have more manpower, especially when, like, Chuck goes like, their bar and there's, like, I don't know, 20-30 guys he has to fight.
00:29:13
Speaker
like Like, I don't know, the Lugans seem to have like one guy, they have one extra guy that like protects Diana, like the daughter, and that that's it. Yeah. but That's all they, that's their, like, their advantage.
00:29:27
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, the Camachos even have, like um like, crazy homeless assassins that just, like, pop out, like, just like like shirt like I'm kidnapping you, i got a knife! I think of the two gangs, they're the, like, most powerful, so I don't know why the other gang thought they could rob from them and get away with it.
00:29:47
Speaker
Because cause they were, like, across the street dressed as, like, paid plumbers or whatever, so they're like, they're not gonna recognize us, we're wearing wearing masks! We got, like, uh, like that, it's, like, uh, ventilation masks on.
00:29:58
Speaker
They can't tell where we are.
00:30:06
Speaker
but yeah, the, um...
00:30:09
Speaker
Did you find they like the relationship between Chuck and Diana kind of weird? Yeah. Because it's like almost like a little bit of romantic, but then not quite. Because then it's almost like she plays a teen character. They explicitly say she's a teenager like multiple times. like But she she's blatantly a late 20-year-old woman. She's like a grown grown woman. And and you're like, huh.
00:30:38
Speaker
How old is she during this? Let me see. I know she's like, i think this is like literally her first movie. Like she' was like right out like Molly Hagen, she's like right out of drama school for this.
00:30:50
Speaker
Oh, wow. She's like 25, but yeah.
00:30:57
Speaker
I think she should just play a 25 year old. i only think she should play like a 19 year old. It's just like it just, yeah, just it adds a weird element to it where it's like, it's like Like, Chuck is chuck is protective of her, but it's like, no, Chuck, don't you you can't be you can't be romantic with her. Because there is, like, some, like like she's like, there's a part where, like, after i have to, like, because Chuck brings her to, like, his, like, cop friend, his, like, car cop friend, this, like, the safe house, and then she's, like, in, like, goes he goes into, like, her bedroom, and she's, like, what do you do when you have no one left? And he's, like, you find somebody. And they, like, hold each other. and Yeah, a little bit of, like,
00:31:37
Speaker
tender, like, talking, but... like hopeful Hopefully Chuck is thinking, like, father-daughter and not, like, this is my design like go yeah this is my new girlfriend. like Yeah, like, it's good, because I think... No offense to Chuck, I just think, like, romance things don't make sense, where we watch him, like, put the smooth moves on, like, the victim.
00:32:03
Speaker
I think he does really well when it's already, like... his wife or ex-wife they kind went over. Yeah. But yeah, like, doesn't she also live alone? Like, she doesn't live with her father. She lives in, like, an apartment building or something. She lives in, like, the city.
00:32:21
Speaker
She... And she's, like, a teacher or, like, a student teacher or something? Because she's, like, on a field trip with those kids Yeah, like she goes to the zoo.
00:32:33
Speaker
Yeah, she goes to the so she's like some sort of teacher assistant or... like I think she's felt she too she's like an 18 or 19 year old. I feel like she's too young to be a teacher. So she must be an intern or like a teacher assistant or something.
00:32:46
Speaker
But then she's also going to like art galleries where like and those art people.
00:32:54
Speaker
i and she's I think she's definite she's definitely some sort of like student. She's definitely going to the University of Chicago or something or some sort of like Chicago University studying something. That's fine, but just the fact that she's 19 is just weird.
00:33:08
Speaker
It's a weird fact about the movie.
00:33:14
Speaker
But, I mean, it's fine. her she just It really just becomes the Danzel of the movie. and Yeah, she keeps getting kidnapped or going life like on the run. or like like like She gets kidnapped by like that the homeless guy and Chuck has to save her and then They break into Chuck's friend's house and kill him and then take her.
00:33:36
Speaker
Which I feel like, I feel like Chuck's, like, Pirelli, like, c Chuck's friend, should have, like, it's, that was such a clear, like, setup. Like, he, like, he gets his gun because he knows the setup, but he still gets, like, ambushed and, like, killed over it.
00:33:49
Speaker
It's just, like like, there's, like, five guys, like, blatantly, like, waiting outside on his steps with guns.
00:33:56
Speaker
Yeah, but he doesn't know that. Yeah. Well, he knows something's up, but then I guess he just gets overwhelmed by the the force of the Camachos.
00:34:09
Speaker
And then you have and you have yeah all that, and you also have you know all the cops like abandoning Chuck because he's like, Craig, he's dangerous. We gotta get him off the... like Well, they have they have a hearing. They have, like, a court hearing where Chuck is like, yeah, I want him off. i think he should be off the force. Like, he's dangerous to everybody.
00:34:28
Speaker
that pisses off all the other cops because they're like, hey, he's a fellow cop. You gotta, like, you gotta back him up.
00:34:35
Speaker
But the problem is that, like, Chuck points out like oh he can he's gonna get other people hurt or like you and they're like no he won't like everyone is like no no no they they even they don't say the movie it's like code of silence you know it's like it takes the like Kaguese partner ah to finally realize like oh crap like I should say something, but he waits until like the to like the third act or something. now Not even the third act. i think it's like the second act where he breaks and then he just sort of off screen walks away. He doesn't do anything after that.
00:35:11
Speaker
Well, it's funny. It's funny, like all the guys kind of like so they there's a there's a scene where Chuck is going to confront the Camachos that they're they have like a bar that they operate out of and he's going there by himself.
00:35:27
Speaker
But he calls for backup. No one is giving him backup. So he has to do like a Chuck Norris fight against 20 guys. where like he's holding up He's holding up really well against those guys. like He's taking a lot That's the big like karate scene of the movie, right?
00:35:44
Speaker
Yeah. Where it's like, you finally you get a little bit... like I do like the obligatory like Chuck is like working out scene at the beginning. But then this is like the big... like we know we got to have some karate in here because it's Chuck Norris.
00:36:00
Speaker
So he's like, like, you're like karate kicking a bunch of guys in this bar. But, uh, yeah, no, no one's no, like everyone's, everyone's like giving me an excuse for like why they can't like go help him.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yeah. They just like phone it in and like, Oh, Hey, I need to get lunch. My car. I got a bad, I got a bad tire. Like um um I'm, I'm answering another call right now.
00:36:25
Speaker
But what's what's funny is that even when they decide till before like the big fight, the final fight, to help Chuck, they they all get there too late. like Chuck's already taken care of everything.
00:36:37
Speaker
So they don't they don't really like arrive they don't really like help out at the end. They decide to help out, but they never they don't actually help out. It's like they have they have like the idea of helping out.
00:36:51
Speaker
Yeah, it is convenient that like they show up at the end like, oh, after everything's taken care of. Yep. And if i if I was any of those cops, I would just be like, i like i would be like so terrified of Chuck Norris and like of an Eddie Cusack after that, because it's like he just took down this entire warehouse by himself of like who knows how many guys...
00:37:14
Speaker
who it's like you are on his bad side you were on his bad side what can you do to you I would just be like yes sir I'm backing you up no matter what now it's like oh do you want to back the blue or back the truck it's like yeah the one thing though is that Chuck this is his evil white art this is where he he would have been like the villain in the next movie this
00:37:45
Speaker
Where he's like, he's getting revenge against all the cops that like, you guys, let me get beat the shit out of the bar. I'm going to take you guys out one by one. And then like, he also knows how to run a killer robot.
00:37:58
Speaker
Yes, he's just a robot again. And the robot is like his new partner. Kudos to Q-Sack's revenge.
00:38:08
Speaker
And then it's, and you know, the second movie is now following Dennis Furner to like take down Chuck and the robot. Yeah. So you can too We could have opened an alligator farm.
00:38:24
Speaker
But yeah. you but Do you want to talk about like the finale? like the ah finale Or is there anything else you jump into before we get to the finale?
Climax and Action Elements
00:38:33
Speaker
No, we can the finale. This movie actually is pretty quick. there's like There's moments where it slows down to tell you more about like Chicago life, and that like it is basically Gotham City.
00:38:47
Speaker
Where like every there's like it's corrupted, or everyone's afraid, or people don't care what's going on. There's a chase scene that like takes place on a Chicago train line, which is pretty cool, and then...
00:39:00
Speaker
You know, it's just like watch stuntmen throw themselves into the Chicago River. Yeah. i thought Well, Andrew Davis, the director, is from Chicago. So, like, like they did so they did a lot of, you know, it's all all shot on location in Chicago.
00:39:14
Speaker
can definitely tell.
00:39:17
Speaker
And it's good. Like, it it's got, like, a fun, like, if you if you watch, like, Blues Brothers first and then watch this after, it's got, like, a fun spirit that Chicago is just a wacky city.
00:39:30
Speaker
I think definitely, like, the like the the car chase where Chuck is chasing Tony Luna after he gets back from... Because because Tony Luna, like, bails... Like, leaves town immediately after the the heist. leaves Like, abandoned his family. Abandons his wife on her birthday. It's like, pack me bag, I'm leaving.
00:39:47
Speaker
And then... then he comes back to town and gets Chuck... Chuck is chasing them in, like, their, like, his Uncle Sal's car. And i think I think where they're chasing... They're chasing is, like,
00:39:58
Speaker
from like Dark Knight, like it's like the underground where all the columns are. Yep. So, yeah, definitely definitely you can like do a lot of like Batman comparisons of like, oh yeah, this is where the same shot place they shot that.
00:40:13
Speaker
um which also results in like Chuck inadvertently causes their car to crash and then blows up. Henry Silver is basically says like, you have to bring me Tony Luda or I'll kill the girl he has because he has ah Diana.
00:40:29
Speaker
then Tony Luda gets blown up in his car so Chuck has to bluff and be like, oh yeah, I definite i got him. I'm bringing him in right now.
00:40:38
Speaker
You know, was tell it's weird because the dad character, or tony or crazy Tony, just sort of like, begrudgingly comes back, and then does not seem like he really wants to care for his daughter. Oh no, he's a horrible father.
00:40:51
Speaker
That's why it took me a moment to realize that that was the dad. I was like, what? It also doesn't help, we were talking about this before we started, it doesn't help that 80% of the guys in this movie look the same. They're all like Chicago guys with mustaches. Yeah.
00:41:09
Speaker
So it's like, is that Tony, like, is that Tony Lunar? Is that Dennis Farina? Or is that, like, who, like, the other there's, like, the other cop who, like, is, like, i feel like he's in, like, whenever you have a Tony in Chicago, like, that one guy is there, like, the guy with like, the glasses and the mustache.
00:41:24
Speaker
He's, like, in the background.
00:41:29
Speaker
Don't know. But I recognize him. ah sure i was trying to find his name. i trying He's, like, a character actor, but he's, like, the most Chicago guy. like if you like genetically create like ah but the perfect Chicago guy, it's that it's that guy.
00:41:43
Speaker
but yeah, yeah a lot a lot of the guys look the same.
00:41:50
Speaker
recognize one guy. Ron Dean. He played the cop Renna. Yeah, hes yeah he's at the but he's a character. like He's in a bunch of stuff. But he's in like Chicago. It's another... like you you like He's in The Fugitive as a Chicago cop.
00:42:04
Speaker
He's in the Dark Knight as a Gotham Chicago cop. Yep. He's also in The Breakfast Club. So that... Was that Chicago too? i mean, John Hughes is from Chicago. is i it surprise Yeah.
00:42:19
Speaker
Chicago adjacent, at least. I think they there in a suburb of Chicago. And then
00:42:29
Speaker
feel like, oh, I'm all. ah He's also in TJ Hooker for like one episode. So that's l LA. Oh, no, he was also in that crime story TV show we talked about off screen about that, like Chicago.
00:42:43
Speaker
But that's free. Yes. Read it immediately after this. Yep. when When he when you decided to be like, I'm an actor full time now. And then he got like this, uh, like one seasoned cop show.
00:42:57
Speaker
And also there was another cop show called wise guys. And it looks like it's Chicago again. um Ron Dean's a cop also, but the show i'm talking about, uh, wise guys, it has Jonathan banks as a like detective.
00:43:15
Speaker
Hmm. The most non-Chicago guy. Wasn't Wiseguys like a cop is like undercover with the mob? Yep.
00:43:24
Speaker
And so he'd be like, oh yeah, I'm a mafia guy.
00:43:30
Speaker
It's me, Johnny Braskos. yeah
00:43:37
Speaker
But yeah, let'ss let's let's talk about the ah finale. So yeah so so chuck says Chuck bluffs his way. He says has Tony Luda. um He ranges into himself to meet him at this like warehouse.
00:43:50
Speaker
But then he goes and steals the prowler, which is in like a dump truck. I don't know understand like the truck it's in, because like Chuck like dumps it out it's just like the back ah just stepss out the back like a dump truck.
00:44:06
Speaker
But apparently, apparently like there's there's like one guy guarding the key the keys to this multi-million dollar assault weapon, and he's like too distracted by footballing his girlfriend to like care.
00:44:20
Speaker
He's like, oh yeah, it's Eddie, he's a good guy. It's fine. and
00:44:27
Speaker
yes that's fine He's gonna karate whatever. But here's the thing. yeah Chuck Norris is like the super cop of the force. Yes. So if he is requesting the like prowler, it's like, wow.
00:44:40
Speaker
ah You can't karate your way there for this one? i don't think requests it. He just always walks in and takes it. He smashes like the the key thing open and that just takes the key.
00:44:53
Speaker
And just drives off. And I think the guy later was like, i don't know, you just drove off. i was busy I was busy watching football. I don't know.
00:45:04
Speaker
but yeah But yeah, Chuck goes, he has the prowler, and then it's just like an insane over-the-top. Like, if if you didn't have, like, if you weren't really feeling like this was an 80s action movie, action movie.
00:45:17
Speaker
Does even Chuck say, like, you're under the arrest under arrests or something? No, no. He just comes in and just starts shooting. Yeah, he just sends the Perala in with his miniguns and starts wiping everyone out. And he's just going in just blasting everyone.
00:45:35
Speaker
ah
00:45:38
Speaker
it was i feel I feel like there could have been a little bit more of like him fighting Henry Silver, like him fighting... like ah like Luis Camacho. Like, they both... Well, or... The Camacho cousin, like, a nephew, Victor, I think. Because Henry Silva's Luis.
00:45:54
Speaker
But... Yeah, they don't really have, like, a big, like, fight. It's just kind of like Chuck just, like, shoots him from, like, a distance.
00:46:01
Speaker
Yeah, it's... Well, Henry Silva doesn't know martial arts, so that'd be a one-sided fight. Yeah. But Henry Silva, also, his plan, but at his last-ditch effort, was to run with a knife.
00:46:15
Speaker
yeah So, it's funny because I think like in the trailer of Code of Silence, you see the scene play out in a more dramatic tone, but when you see it now in like the movie, it happens very quickly.
00:46:30
Speaker
Yeah, I guess just wanted to kill Diana. It's like, if I'm going to go out, I'm going take the last moon out with me. Like, my last set to revenge. I give him credit. He is dedicated this blood oath. Mm-hmm.
00:46:48
Speaker
As a robot, like, even in the face of a robot rolling in and, like, decimating his entire organization. Yeah, I know. It's like... This is, like, sci-fi at that point. Like, a Terminator machine showed up to your, like, hideout and is now blowing away your mafia.
00:47:04
Speaker
And Henry Silva just brings out a knife. Yes. Okay, that, and then... Does the robot just disappear? Well, for some reason, like, the robot just stops and says, like...
00:47:18
Speaker
so ah This is like the demo mode or something? cause it stops this is like and says like, end of demonstration. ah so it's like, so Chuck just set it in like a demo mode that like kills everybody, but then just stops it's like, because it it doesn't run on a gas or anything. it just like It's like weirdly female robot voice that says, and that concludes our demonstration for today.
00:47:38
Speaker
then shuts down. That was just demo mode? Yep. kill mode demo see like that means if that was on demonstration like caliber what is full assault mode like like the that's why that's why it's like totally like an ocp thing of like the demo is just like it goes into like kills like 30 guys 30 guys in a warehouse and they want to let this loose on the street just like let it roam chicago it's like you're you're you're parking in a in a towway zone and
00:48:11
Speaker
You have five seconds in the car. What's I blowing up with a missile?
00:48:17
Speaker
You're jaywalking.
00:48:22
Speaker
It is weird. Was Rocky IV before this? cause like The voice is like very like Rocky IV robot, but after Polly somehow reprograms it. Oh, it was the same year as this.
00:48:36
Speaker
One robot is happy birthday, Polly. one is kill. Yep.
00:48:42
Speaker
Can you imagine if they borrowed that Rocky design? Because they thought robot future stuff is more like that. So there's just an armor version of that Pauly robot. they They both saw the same... but Wherever Sloan saw that robot, like the like Andrew Davis saw that robot too there too. It's like, oh man, we got it. I think it was like the last thing is like Tech Expo or something.
00:49:06
Speaker
i i forget what that like the Rocky IV robot was actually supposed to be. like It was ah some sort of like medical... like It was supposed be a medical companion or something. or like a medical Something medical related. and so then it was just like, oh my god, that thing is amazing.
00:49:20
Speaker
That's going to cure like a whole bunch of depression. Yeah.
00:49:26
Speaker
I think it was meant to like show emotions. Because it had a face. Maybe, yeah. And then they um they kind of rigged it so it did a whole bunch of stuff. it probably couldn't It should never do. like I don't know.
00:49:42
Speaker
get attached to Pauly. But in this one, there's it's like, blatantly not a robot if you know Attack. It's like some guy in that riot thing, like, doing donuts.
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it definite it looks like ah like of it's like a kind of an armored vehicle, but then it's so definitely there's definitely a guy in there driving around, but they sell it as an automated ah robot, like ah tax thing So, I'm thinking, in 1985, did someone really think that's, like, the future?
00:50:17
Speaker
You know? You know we see some rope of some things, and it's like, oh man, AI's out of control, or, like, technology can be deadly in the wrong hands? I don't see that in 1985 with that. I don't see any, like, tech invangilicists, or, like, tech naysayers that like, looking at that and going, oh god, like, technology has gone too far.
00:50:38
Speaker
Well, crazy is Robocop was like three two years after this. So it's not even like trying to copy Robocop. So I don't know what i don't know what was like kind of like... Inspired this? Inspired the Prowler.
00:50:52
Speaker
feel like there was a... Well, okay. I definitely saw like another Asian movie growing up where they copied like the ah crazy like secret weapon with overpowered machine.
00:51:03
Speaker
But it wasn't AI. Not in the way that this is doing. It's just like, oh, it's just a machine you sit in and like you spin out of control. like The nearest thing I could say is close like this is like the last Starfighter with whatever maneuver.
00:51:18
Speaker
The Death Blossom? Yeah. Where you spin out of control and shoot in all directions. Yeah. I feel like that's the equivalent was just like, let's just shoot in circles and then that's it. It's just the the the trick about this movie was the targeting system.
00:51:38
Speaker
Yeah, the fact that it could just roll in is like like by itself, just target like guys and take them out.
00:51:46
Speaker
spin out of control.
00:51:49
Speaker
And I don't think it like i don't think it was like inspired by like actual like military hardware anything. I don't think the military was like developing a a prowler. No. they This was definitely like a movie prop magic. Mm-hmm.
00:52:11
Speaker
IMDb has like all the tech specs for the Prowler.
00:52:17
Speaker
has an M40 rifle, two Mark 19 grade launchers, twin.50 caliber machine guns, and laser range guide system, and a target acquisition system.
00:52:35
Speaker
So, that must have been like, John Mahoney must have said that at some point. I was like, give me all the specs. ah Because i don't know how you, like, put that on a DB if you, like, otherwise, if that wasn't the movie.
00:52:47
Speaker
Right. So I'm just is like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna analyze the prowler and figure out every single weapon on it. So go to, go to Sal and Superfan, just like, I'm gonna frame by frame the prowler.
00:52:58
Speaker
So we can, like, mimic that real technology. I'm gonna, I'm gonna build my own prowler. Like, first, you need a military tank or, like, an armored vehicle. Yep. Mm-hmm.
00:53:12
Speaker
And then you gotta put, like, a machine gun on it. Yeah, you take an APC, and put it, like, dual machine guns top of it.
00:53:27
Speaker
But, uh, yeah, anything anything else about Code Silence, Chris? I kinda wish there was a better ending. Like, the next day kinda ending. yeah like it ends with like them walking out and like justice we did it and then it's like yeah so it's just like all the suspects are gone the witness is traumatized because she was kidnapped for know how long who knows how long like if you is the gang war over is it i feel i like literally both gangs are like completely dead like every single member of those gangs are dead
00:54:07
Speaker
So, I mean, that's a win for the police. Yeah, they they they solve crime by letting most of them kill each other. Letting Chuck Norris just go unleashed it with a robot.
00:54:21
Speaker
And then the Prowler company is going to be like, oh. That was great. like Successful test. We're putting that in every city in the US now.
00:54:31
Speaker
Right. Or even it's like, hey, that was still like a prototype, so now your your police department has to buy that now? yeah Yes! It was like a trial it still like the trial.
00:54:42
Speaker
Yeah, it was like it was just more like a tech demo demonstration. they That's going to be shipped out next week, but now because you use it for field, like they can't sell it. Yep. So, like, yeah okay.
00:54:54
Speaker
Dumb, dumb ending. It should end with like, oh, hey, like, Craigie, like, you are being replaced. Like, the Prowler's taking your desk. They put a police hat on the Prowler.
00:55:09
Speaker
Yeah, Craigie just sort of like, surrenders his badge, and he's like, take it, Prowler. You deserved it.
00:55:17
Speaker
You shot way more kids in hallways than I could ever do it. I mean, it probably would. i mean who like That thing just like seems like it's just gonna shoot willy-nilly. Well, I mean, the thing is, like no one considers like what happens when machine gun bullets go through people.
00:55:36
Speaker
Because they don't just like land in people. It shreds through people. So there's still collateral for life behind you or like you know around you.
00:55:47
Speaker
It's a spray brain mechanic when it comes to the Prowler's design. It's in it in but we said it's fifty to ca it's two twin 50 caliber machine guns. I mean, that's like one of the bigger calibers. It pulls holes to cement walls and keeps yeah going.
00:56:02
Speaker
So, what? they they like They're going to put that on the streets and just shoot the apartment buildings and stuff? Chicago, at least in the 80s, was still very 70s and 60s architecture, so like it's not meant for like bullet stoppage.
00:56:20
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:56:23
Speaker
yes it' it Yeah, they put that thing on the streets and just, like, rip buildings apart. it's like, when we stopped one guy, we also destroyed, like, five buildings and, like, killed a bunch of civilians.
00:56:38
Speaker
mean, if anything, Chuck Norris' karate is, like, the safest policing. and Yes. Like, no one dies. He doesn't, like, kill anyone with his karate. He, like, ah can't misfire. Mm-hmm.
Director's Career and Film Legacy
00:56:53
Speaker
But he really only gets to see ah show off his karate in that one bar scene. And then, like, he loses that fight. Which, not very rare in a Chuck Norris movie. He doesn't really lose.
00:57:04
Speaker
Well, they got a show what happens like because yeah because of like why the other cops abandoned him, so he had no backup. so he The only person that helps him is Dennis Farina. but Loyal Dennis Farina shows up to get him out there.
00:57:17
Speaker
It's an odd pairing, but, like, it works. Mm-hmm.
00:57:23
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ah Anything last for you? Oh, just so much like like so this this this kicked off like Andrew Davis like basically like this. He made like one horror movie for this, like a low budget horror movie. But this like basically kicked off his career like but like he did above the law after this, under siege, the fugitive chain reaction. So he became like a big like like action director after this one. and and The movie, action isn't bad. like I like how it's very grounded.
00:57:50
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Besides the robot, everything else is fine. Yeah, it's definitely like it's it's interesting, like kind of tonally different from like like like which like Missing the Action and Invasion USA but like the same year as this.
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00:58:06
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And it was like there's like totally over-the-top ridiculous Chuck Norris movies. ah You can definitely tell this is like trying to do something a little different. Mm-hmm. like but like like you definitely get like the vibes of like yeah like a 70s cop movie mixed with 80s action.
00:58:23
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like It has like that bullet, French Connection kind of style, but then a high-octane finale with like machine guns going off and explosions. yeah i don't yeah I don't know if I'd put this like like top top of my list of Chuck Norris movies, but definite it's definitely like like top middle. like definitely like ah a solid like If you're doing like top tens, like this would be maybe seven or eight, maybe.
00:58:53
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I get that. ah This definitely is a different version of the cop top version of Chuck Norris. Well, it's just like baseline.
00:59:04
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I feel like he's not Renegade type that one scene where he steals the prowler. um He's actually, like, by the books, like an honest cop, which is good. He's the only one. He's incorruptible. Everyone else is... Could be corrupted any time.
00:59:19
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ah And it's got... It um definitely is, like...
00:59:24
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It definitely has that like almost wholesome part about like the Chuck Norris thing, where if you just made this PG in a movie where like he just catches like bank robbers, it still works.
00:59:37
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If no one died. Just a bunch of like episodic like like Eddie Cusack, his day, just stopping crimes. Yeah, yeah. He does for cops, just like... buddy cops is like So, like, it's it's a good idea. Like, I like the character, um but we don't know his home life.
00:59:53
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You know how, like, some cops in this era, they always made that thing where, like, he's such a good cop, but, like, no one loves him. Or, like, he takes his work home and he just sort of, like, drinks and, you know, does all that and other kind of classic things. Or he pissed off the, the like, the villains and they're coming after him.
01:00:12
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but villages i'd say like the The villains don't care about him. Only until the end. like It's not like Henry Silva is like going to Chuck's house. He only threatens him once with a Colombian necktie and Chuck doesn't know what that is.
01:00:25
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He's like, what? I don't know. They definitely like run into each other before like because they're aware of each other. But yeah's that yeah, we never see Chuck's... We never see his house slash apartment wherever he lives.
01:00:38
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we that's It's very like easy because he seems like he only is on the clock and now he's the cop and whatever. Then yeah he just goes home. We find out that he's got like two great daughters. He's like a minister. We're like, oh, okay. Like...
01:00:54
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Yeah, I feel like if they wanted to have more of that like bullet thing, just have him go home and have him have this like stylish like apartment or something. Or a fancy like Steve McQueen style house or something.
01:01:07
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Yeah. He's got sports cars or fancy sculptures he plays instruments something. No. No. you know fancy sculptures or like he plays like instruments or something
01:01:19
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add more like, his character. but he's been He's just a cop. He's, like, a cop. That's it. He's, like, the best cop. That's his whole life, his whole personality. Which is fine. Like, that's not like, it's a baseline.
01:01:31
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I feel like any more character depth and now you've shaped a new character, which they don't do until later, kind dark norse movies, but it's fine. Like, you you saw his movie for just the action. You didn't really see it for the cop drama. I mean, you did, kind because that's, like, the selling point of the Code of Silence, but you didn't care about, like,
01:01:49
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off-the-clock things. The only thing he did was go to the bar. And I think even at the bar, he didn't drink. No. He just went there to talk business with Coppolis about, like, because Coppolis actually confessed at the bar of, like, oh, yeah, i saw Craig, dropped that gun, but I'm not going to anybody else.
01:02:11
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Because of because the code of silence, so I'm like, I'm not i no snitch. Hmm.
01:02:20
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But ah yeah, so Quote Silence, definitely, if you like ah if you listen to this and haven't seen it, like definitely ah go watch it. I think it's on Prime Video and... um I saw it on Tubi.
01:02:34
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Tubi, I think, yeah, it's a bunch of places. um Definitely like a a good like you know deeper cut Chuck Doris movie. It's a happy 40th anniversary of that.
01:02:48
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And come back next week, we're going diving into a video game movie. because By the time you hear next week's episode, we'll be be we'll be at PAX East in Boston checking out bunch of games. So we thought, like let's get into the kind of like video game mindset with a video game movie.
01:03:03
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And so we're going to be talking about Prince of Persia. the sads ah Was it Prince Persia Santa Times or just Prince Persia? think Prince of Persia Santa Times. Yeah, which at at the end of this month is celebrating its, I believe it's its 20th anniversary, but we're we'll be talking about next week just to get into that video game mode for PAX East.
01:03:23
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So come back, check that out. And however, we have bunch of stuff. we got are Speaking of games, we got our Gamebox 2.0 for April's up there, can check what we played in April. um I got a review of Havoc, the new Tom Hardy, Gareth Evans movie.
01:03:35
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ah you know which We talked about the raid last week, so I did watch Havoc and I have a review of that up on the site. And a bunch of other stuff out there as well. Trailers, news, all kinds of stuff. don't check lot stuff out.
01:03:46
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And, yeah. So, for Chris, I'm Zach. And we will see you next week. For more For Everything Action, head to www.everythingaction.com. You can also find us on Facebook at facebook.com slash everything.action.
01:04:01
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