Review: Final Justice (1984)
"You think you can take me? Go ahead on. It's your move." Final Justice is a 1984 crime/action movie from low budget director Greydon Clark, the man behind such video-era delights as 1982's Wacko and 1983's Joysticks ("totally awesome video games!") . It stars Joe Don Baker as Thomas Jefferson Geronimo (great name), a Texas sheriff who chases a murderer all the way to the Mediterranean island Malta, where our villain has holed up in a massive compound that would make Tony Montana jealous. Using the fish-out-of-water storytelling device, our small town sheriff--almost always in a cowboy hat--feels like a holdover from a western as he takes on an entire criminal organization all by himself. Chuck Norris, eat your heart out. Joe Don Baker is at the very end of his leading man career here. In fact, I believe this is his final lead actor credit in a feature film. He'd still have some top-billed parts on television, but he would slip further and further...