Raw Deal

Less a film but more a sequence of Arnie one-liners strung into narrative form. Here are my favorites, in order: "You should not drink and bake." "Do you think I still pass the physical?" "Magic?, magnet!" "You know why I like bedrooms? You almost always find a bed in there!" "I hope you're not your mother's only child." "We are finished shopping!" "I'm hungry." "Do you own a calendar? It must be a Jewish holiday." "...To do what an old friend told me to do: Not get dead."

Howdy y’all welcome to our quiet little slice of life we ... oh my god duck here comes the sheriff “WAHH DOO iT CAHM AHN”

Just as riddled with tropes as the same year's contemporary buff guy action movie "Cobra", but Mark Kaminsky suffers from a lack of buffoonish swagger that Marion Cobretti had, even when cutting his day old pizza with a pair of scissors. Even so, the twelve year old in me wishes that the well of 80's action movies like this was bottomless.

"Joseph P. Brenner... What's the 'P' stand for?" "PUSSY". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfkWMArNDo

For better or worse, this is Arnie in full force, flexing his pecs and mangling the English language with amazing zeal. It's a pretty typical explosion filled outing.

It doesn't matter how many times you paste his name across the poster, kids in Oklahoma still won't be able to spell Schwarzenegger.

Ok action movie.

Dumb ending.

This movie has a few good action moments. But the script is weak at times, some lines are pure cheese and it seems like this story has been done countless times before. Overall this film is disappointing.

Dull Schwarzenegger vehicle is arguably his worst film from his heyday, and he is actually pretty terrible in it, delivering lines in a rather tone deaf fashion. Even his trademark quotables are in short supply, with only 'don't drink and bake' being a true standout. Irvin's direction is purely perfunctory when it isn't downright bad. He knows where to place the camera, but has no idea how to control movement, and while the action scenes towards the end are OK, they arrive too late to save it.

Best ‘learning to walk again' scene ever. Also best pronounciation of ‘mutilation'.

I'm gonna go drink and bake.

Shoddy all around. Bad action, flat characters, lame villains. Watch Commando again instead.

Incl. 20 points for "You should not drink and bake."

30 points for Arnold's delivery

Raw Deal is undoubtedly one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's worst action films, but I definitely had a soft spot for it growing up. Considering Arnold was a huge star by this point in his career, it's surprising that he starred in this poorly directed, badly written and incredibly amateurish film. But all the silliness and awful slicked back hair aside, Arnold still somehow adds enough charisma to make this watchable.

"You should not drink and bake"

Schwarzenegger's charm struggles to shine through a ludicrous and somewhat incomprehensible plot. Many of the directorial decisions are equally incomprehensible and bizarre, almost as though it were being made up as it went along. Why, for instance, introduce his wife and her alcoholism only to have her disappear completely from all subsequent scenes? On the other hand, the most amusing moment occurs in an early scene in which Arnold informs his wife that she oughtn't drink and bake.

Really bad but Red Sonja is far worse.

"Raw Deal" is among the few odd ducks in Schwarzenegger's career. It looks cheap, tacky, and much of the storyline bores. The film actually has somewhat of a confusing plot going on, but that may simply be its lack of coherency. There's just something very distant about the whole project, and the real 'action' doesn't pick up until the final shootout.

Arnie going to fuck you up.

Damn. I was pretty excited to see this with the hilarious tagline "His trigger has all the answers" and "He was given a Raw Deal....NO ONE gives him a Raw Deal." Huge disappointment from Arnold.

A lesser Arnold effort

Getting shot to death by a guy driving a pink cadillac convertible while the rolling stones play is a definetly a raw deal.

Makes you realise that a Arnie movie with no personality ends up amending to not much

Craptastic 80s flick Arnold made in-between better movies

After committing a string of psychopathic violent crimes, will Arnie be let back into the FBI and live happily ever after? Find out in RAW DEAL.

Good Arnie movie.

This is a purely paint by numbers Arnold vehicle from his prime. The one-liners are generally uninspired compared to Arnold's usual films of this era and it kind of feels eerily like an Arnold 80s action film developed by an AI, but I have a soft spot and I'll never say no to Arnold shooting 60 bad guys and causing tens of millions in property damage in the process. Most of Arnold's other 80s action is much better, though.

Average Arnie with some fun moments, but they're spread thin across a script that adds up to virtually nothing. The cinematography is surprisingly good, ​almost to the point of jarring, considering what it's paired with. This is probably the best scene (take from that what you will): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NFbP7iq-1E

Raw Deal doesn't mesh when it compared to the rest of Arnold's catalog. There is a lot of action in this movie but it tries to turn Arnold into too much of a thinking man's good guy and that isn't who Arnold is. I liked the story of a disgraced Fed who wants to earn his place back in the agency so he goes rogue and helps avenge his old boss' son who was killed by the mob. Which brings me to the final scene of the movie, which they try and make McGavin's character into this nice guy but he isn't.

There is some ironic enjoyment to be had in the often incredulous directorial choices and absurdly non-sequitur moments of comedic relief, but this movie is a turd.

Raw Deal (1986) has become something of a forgotten movie in Arnold Schwarzenegger's career. It was a gritty crime story made at a time when the action star could seemingly do no wrong with every movie doing well at the box office. Not so with Raw Deal, which barely made a profit in comparison to action movie rival Sylvester Stallone and his own crime movie Cobra (1986).

41.500

No one puts Schwarzenegger in a: Shit Film.

Cheap, chintzy, tacky and amateurish. One of Arnold's worst. It felt like he was struggling to remember his lines too..

41.000

Made to cash in on Arnie's fame just as it was on the rise, this is cheap, badly written and poorly directed. Arnie's charisma is just enough to keep you watching, but trying to play a slick wise-cracking gangster just isn't a part suited to him. There's plenty of brain-off action but it's horribly directed and choreographed, scenes happen for no good reason (where did his wife go for the rest of the movie?) and between shootouts there's an awful lot of not much happening. A rare Arnie turkey

One of the biggest turds of Arnolds career.

Suffers from a weak supporting cast and weak hand-to-hand choreography but the movie has a lot of cool setpieces when it's making use of vehicles and weapons. Being this is sold on Schwarzeneggar's personality this delivers in providing some amazing one-liners and Arnie steals the show any time he's screen. It's a shame anything outside his presence is boring as hell, but this movie has so many fun scenes that I can say it was at least a decent popcorn flick.

Quite good for a stereo typical film. It was interesting and most of the action was good.

Really not that bad. I tried hard to make fun of it, but the direction and acting are pretty good. Especially compared to some of Arnie's other entries.

The system gave him a raw deal, nobody gives him a raw deal.

"You shouldn't drink and bake."

"Fuck justice!"

Laughable attempt to portray Schwarzenegger with slicked back hair as a cop posing as a mobster. The story is equally silly and unbelievable, even for an 80s action flick.

This is surely a product of the 80's.

The exact opposite of a chick flick.

MNRGMHRGMHRG FUCK THIS MOVIE I HATE IT SO MUCH

Hehe poor arny his catalogue of films dosent look good.