Action Jackson (1988)

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Due to the use of excessive force in arresting a sexual predator, Detective Lt. Jericho "Action" Jackson (Carl Weathers) is demoted to police sergeant. What's worse, the father of the man he roughed up, Detroit industrialist Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson), declares war on Jackson, framing him for the murder of his own wife, Patrice (Sharon Stone). But Jericho manages to elude arrest and, with the help of a drug-addicted singer named Sydney (Vanity), goes after Dellaplane. Today on Buzzn The Tower we answer the question that no one was asking; what if you gave Dillon from Predator, gave him a badge, and made him a street cop? So sick back relax and enjoy an hour of us talking about Action Jackson, the single greatest Detroit police officer next to Axel Foley. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the surprise Biff Tannen cameo to my otherwise nonsense movie, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	In the very beginning of the movie when the secretary and the guy are in the office and
0:13.4	he's like, why don't you stick around and go to like rubber back and tries to turn
0:16.9	on the TV but the remote doesn't work and then they turn the TV on very specific.
0:21.2	It is and it's a boxing, the boxing come on the TV and she's like, oh and he's like,
0:26.1	what, you got something against violence?
0:28.2	That TV and that boxing is a Apollo Creed boxing rocky and rock that's cool.
0:33.8	That's cool.
0:34.8	I mean, come on.
0:35.8	How ridiculous is that?
0:37.1	Another one is when action Jackson and Vanity are walking through the town.
0:43.3	I think right after they got out of the bar and he did the, I'm a believer and he walks
0:47.1	right out.
0:48.1	That's the dumbest scene ever seen by ever.
0:49.1	It's so absurd.
0:50.6	When they leave that bar, right when they walk outside, they go about 10 feet and on
0:54.9	the left are five predator posters up on the wall of the movie.
0:58.8	Well Carl is filming himself.
1:05.4	Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s.
1:09.9	Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film
1:13.5	ever.
1:14.5	Hey Mo, we better back up.
1:15.8	We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
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