This is the first Chuck Norris Movie review I'm about to do. The movie "Silent Rage" is a sci-fi/action/thriller starring Chuck Norris as Sheriff Dan Stevens he must stop a mentally ill man named John Kirby played by Brian Libby,who goes on a violent rampage after he had been granted near indestructibility in a medical experiment.
The start of the film showed the mentally ill man John Kirby murder two family members. So sheriff Stevens and Deputy Charlie (Stephen Furst) respond and arrest John,however he breaks out of his handcuffs overpowers other officers and grabs a shotgun forcing the officers to shoot him. Now John is severely injured and near death gets transported to an institute where his phychiatrist Dr.Thomas Halman (Ron Silver) and he works along side Dr.Phillip Spires (Steven Keats) and Dr.Paul Vaughn who are two doctors/genetics. In order to save John from death Dr.Spires propose treating him with a formula created by himself and Dr.Vaughn,Dr. Halman objects to it's use to to John's psychosis and Spires pretends to agree but administers the formula anyway once Dr.Halman leaves. Revived and rendered to near mute he is now virtually invulnerable. John escapes from the institution and tracks down Dr.Tom Halman at his home having overheard him tell Dr. Phil Spires to die earlier on. Well John ends up killing Dr.Halman when Tom's wife Nancy discovers he's dead John killed her too. Tom's sister Allison (Toni Kalem) came home to discover the corpses of her brother and his wife. But John didn't kill her he fleed the scene as Allison ran to Sheriff Stevens and Deputy Charlie as the police arrived. Dan and Charlie take Allison to the institute knowing that John is going to see Doctors Spires and Vaughn to treat his wounds,but instead John kills the two doctors as well stabbing Dr. Vaughn with a syringe after he threw acid on John and then John kills Dr.Spires by snapping his neck. Charlie attempted to arrest him but John broke his back and he is left to die so now Dan has to protect Allison from this monster John has become. When Dan and Allison escaped the institute John climbed in the back of Sheriff Steven's truck into the back window and they were forced to jump out as the truck crashes and explodes lighting John on fire but again he survives,only injured so he jumps in the lake and recovers. So now with Allison watching Dan and John get into a fight that ended with the only way Chuck Norris knows how to end it with several roundhouse kicks before being thrown into a nearby well. Seemingly dead by this point Dan and Allison leave,but deep in the well John seemed to arise from the water and then we get the rolling credits.
"Silent Rage" was directed by Michael Miller the screenplay for this movie was written by Joseph Fraley and produced by Anthony B. Unger and Distributed by Columbia Pictures. Released on April 2,1982 the movie did $29.5 million in the box office. Chuck Norris was on a hot streak when it came to starring in profitable films starting with 1979's A Force of One,followed by 1980's The Octagon and 1981's an Eye for an Eye.
I rate this movie an 85/100 unfortunately it's not ranked in the top 10 of favorite movies of 1982. Years later Michael Miller had hoped to do a sequel to Silent Rage however he felt that Chuck Norris was not a fan of those kind of slasher movies now was it Norris' favorite pictures to do. Who could blame him?
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