I, The Jury [HD]

Armand Assante as "Mike Hammer".
For Mature Adults Only! Contains male nudity and full frontal female nudity. Scenes of orgy and sexual situations. Rated "R".

Based upon the novel by Mickey Spillane.

Armand Assante is "Mike Hammer", a private detective in new York City. There is a killer on the loose. He has already killed a one-arm cop in his home. Then each furthur victim has some connection to the first victim. Mike Hammer is close on the trail and meets some sexy women along the way. This case is so dangerous he can't even trust his friends on the force.

Armand Assante really made this film for me.

Also in the cast: Laurene Landon, Judson Scott, Julia Barr, Barbara Carrera, Alan King, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Sorvino, Lee Anne Harris and Lynette Harris.

Armand Assante is Awesome
No doubt he was compared to Pacino at the time, but Assante IS Mike Hammer. His tough as nails attitude that he brings to the role is mesmerizing. The opening title sequence, with music by Bill Conti was very well done. I also think that the filmakers were hoping this would be the first of many sequels or chapters ( much like James Bond 007 ). Sadly, this was the only one starring Assante. I would have loved to have seen a series of Mike Hammer adventures on the big screen, but we were instead jilted into the awful TV Series starring Stacey Keach. I, the Jury, remains a first class thriller. The plot is complicated, but Assante steals the show as the womanizing PI. If this movie were made today, it would be unrecognizable. The gratuitious nudity would easily offend today's feminists so that would be cut. Then there's the graphic violence which would be too much for today's overly sensitive audiences. I,the Jury, is filled with politically incorrect scenes and roles, but that's what...

Spillane, pain, and no work for your brain
This is pretty much a 1982 by-the-numbers rehash of both the Mickey Spillane 1947 novel and the 1953 film of the same name. Here, though, Mike Hammer's secretary Velda not only carries a gun but can use it as well as her boss. And here as well, unlike the 1953 Hollywood Code restrictions that kept film directors from showing all the naughty bits, director Richard Heffron can display Armand Assante's Hammer and Barbara Carrera's sexy Caroline Bennett going at it with wild abandon.

This movie moves through its Spillane-juiced plot fairly effortlessly. Assante is fine, Paul Sorvino is appropriately tight-lipped as Pat Chambers, Mike Hammer's police force contact, and the women all flagrantly disobey women's lib edicts of equal status and respect by submitting (either immediately or eventually) to Hammer's virile presence.

Spillane was known, when he started out, as the number one purveyor of pure pulp in detective fiction--i.e., overt sex and violence. Heffron's film gives a...

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