Word: thunderbolting
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...inductees are all deserving of their plaques. Rusie, the famed "Hoosier Thunderbolt" of the 1890s, died in 1942. He won more than 30 games a season three times and has a winning percentage of .603. Rusie was also the first major leaguer ever to sit out a season over a contract dispute, as he refused to sign with the Giants...
...surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order of last year's under rated Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (which also starred Bridges). Instead, all it offers is conventional, well-paced entertainment, which provides an inadequate context for a few sudden shows of genuine strength...
...Saiqa was established by Syria in 1967 and is still largely funded by Damascus. Led by Zuheir Mohsen, 45, Saiqa (Thunderbolt) consists of possibly 2,000 men, including about 1,000 full-time guerrillas. Most of them are Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria. More military than political, Al Saiqa is little more than an unofficial auxiliary of the Syrian army...
...feeling for the almost reflexive defenses of masculine camaraderie and for its excesses, with his eye and grudging affection for Western lowlife, Cimino has an obvious affinity for the work of Sam Peckinpah. What really animates Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, though, and makes it distinctive is its shellbursts of lunatic comedy. Thunderbolt and the kid hitch a ride with a crazy who has the exhaust pipe of the car channeled up into the back seat, a caged raccoon riding in the front seat, and a couple dozen rabbits stashed in the trunk. "What am I going to do with all these...
...movie is shaky when the friendship between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is sentimentalized, and at the end, when invention gives in to a mawkish resolution. But all the performers are excellent, and Eastwood unwinds a little from his customary characterization of a terse, razor-eyed stranger, breaking through to a kind of boyish affability. Cimino himself renders most of the movie with enough cunning to make it one of the most ebullient and eccentric diversions around...