Walking the Edge

1985

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 1091 1.1K

taxi driver

Plot summary

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Director

Norbert Meisel Photo
Norbert Meisel

Top cast

Jerry Jones Photo
Jerry Jones as Gabby
Doug Toby Photo
Doug Toby as Danny Holloway
Robert Forster Photo
Robert Forster as Jason Walk
Howard Honig Photo
Howard Honig as Ron
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860.6 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 3
1.56 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 6 / 10

"I'm not a coward, but I'm not a hero."

Robert Forster is his ever-engaging self as Jason Walk, a ballplayer turned part time cabbie & part time numbers runner. He finds his life torn asunder when Christine Holloway (Nancy Kwan), a woman on a suicidal revenge mission, hires his cab. He lets her know in no uncertain terms that he's very unhappy about what she's gotten him into, and yet he is undeniably driven to protect her. The villain is a crime figure named Brusstar (Joe Spinell), who's murdered Christines' lowlife husband; their son also got killed in the crossfire."Walking the Edge" is no great shakes as revenge thrillers go, but it's certainly watchable. Forster really makes a lot of the difference, creating another average-Joe protagonist for whom you can easily root. Kwan is less satisfying, but she & Forster do have an interesting, antagonistic chemistry. (She actually has the nerve to accuse him of bungling her mission.). Spinell (who'd also acted with Forster in another revenge thriller, "Vigilante") is always good value; one of his main character traits is that he hates being addressed as "Bruce", and he frequently butts heads with McKee (Wayne Woodson), his number two guy who would like to be number one.Also featuring other familiar faces such as A Martinez, Doug Toby, Luis Contreras, Ivy Bethune, Jacqueline Giroux, Aarika Wells, and Frankie Hill, this had a long road to the screen. It was filmed in 1982, but legal issues prevented it from being released until 1985.Also notable for a typically strong Jay Chattaway score.Six out of 10.
Reviewed by parkerbcn 6 / 10

Small 80s action-thriller

This is a small action-thriller of the vigilante subgenre, so popular in the 80s, with the great Robert Foster being forced to help a woman to find revenge against the gang that murder her family. The villain is performed by the always creepy Joe Spinell and the movie manages to keep things interesting, even with its extreme low budget and very thin script. The acting of these two and the grittiness of the film is by far the best of it.
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