1977. Major Charles Rane comes back from war after being held POW in Nam for 7 torturous years to find his wife with another man and his sensibilities for living the "normal" life totally destroyed. It aint no goddamn wonder he don't have much to say. And neither does his buddy gab too much either (played by a young Tommy Lee Jones) -also an ex prisoner of war - they have lived through hell.

Rane, upon his return to civilization, is awarded a few thousand silver dollars on public TV for his hell time spent, and apparently bad guy Fat Ed (remember Roscoe P. Coltrane of Dukes of Hazzard fame?) and the gang sees this little ceremony and decide they have more use for that money - like a pig sucking shit I guess. So sometime later bad guy Ed & Gang grind off Rane's hand in his garbage disposal, and kill his ex-wife and 8 year old, and take the money - a measly few grand. Rane is shot but left alive. Bad thing too. For them.

During Rane's rehabilitation he plans revenge. But you wouldn't know it from his screen presence. Rane is solid as an emotionless rock.

Rane finds Fat Ed and the gang living in a whore house in Mexico and he enlists his old buddy (Jones) to help with the wipeout. William Devane is EXCELLENT in this flick and although Tommy Lee Jones is in only a few scenes, he might have the best line when he tells a whore at the end that he and Rane are "going to kill a lot of people."

Catch this near classic flick at all cost!

- Lily