Leofwine_draca
The fact that the perfectly serviceable '80s actioner FINAL JUSTICE appears on the bottom 100 films of all time IMDb list shows the ridiculousness of said list. The only reason this film makes an appearance at all is because it featured on the irritating spoof show MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, which mercilessly ribbed it. I despise the whole MST3K thing so am not particularly impressed. Not when there are literally hundreds of worse films in existence.FINAL JUSTICE is your usual cop thriller directed by Greydon Clark, the man behind THE WARNING and other B-movies. It stars Joe Don Baker as a no-nonsense Texan cop who makes Dirty Harry look like a liberal. Baker is sent to Malta, of all places, on the hunt for some murderous bad guys, and all manner of police film clichés and violent shoot-outs ensue. Sure, FINAL JUSTICE isn't particularly good; it's a forgettable film with lapses in logic and a tired, seen-it-all-before feel to it. But Baker remains entertaining and the Maltese locations are different if nothing else. One of the worst films ever made? Please!
verbusen
This film from the first 5 minutes you know is bad. Bad as in totally incompetent bad. Bad as in something that sets back movie making in an Ed Wood kind of way, so bad that Coleman Francis if he had not killed himself 11 years earlier would have been involved in this. As a matter of fact this has a real "Night Train To Mundo Fine" quality to it. The sad thing though is that this film had a budget 1,000 times as much and it still is just as bad. I'm giving it a 1 out of 10 because it really deserves it, but if you are looking for a bad film to watch as a comedy I would give this a 10, it made me laugh out loud all on it's own. Of course I watched it as an MST3K episode but the times I laughed the loudest had nothing to do with their riffing, it was the film itself. I am also giving this an above average MST3K episode and one well worth watching, not sure it's a top 10 but it's definitely a top 30 episode. I found it much more enjoyable to watch then MST3K's "Mitchell" which I thought was just boring except for the ending which was very funny. I can't believe I was a Joe Don Baker fan all these years, shows you what little I know in life. If you want to watch Joe Don stay with his stuff made in the 70's like Charley Varrick and The Outfit, stuff where he is NOT the lead like he was in Mitchell (unless it's Walking Tall).
mikelcat
The only words you need fear more than Joe Don Baker if your thinking of watching a film are Greydon Clark , and if they are both there , run for your life . However this is a very funny film because they actually take themselves seriously ! It starts out bad and goes downhill from there , repeated scenes , the Good The Bad and The Ugly like shootout will have you rolling on the floor with laughter .Yes , he's the best deputy sheriff in Texas , tracking a mafia hit-man to Malta as only he can . He makes his own rules , does things his own way , all the while wearing cowboy boots and sidearms cowboy style . You want to see a bad but funny film ? Go ahead on , its your move !
Aaron1375
Joe Don Baker is an alright to good actor in small roles here and there...he was alright in Goldeneye and made a pretty good Bond villan in The Living Daylights and has appeared in various other movies. One thing he can't do is carry a movie as the lead, which he is in this extremely bad revenge movie set in Malta. Joe Don's partner is killed so he kills the killer's brother and escorts the killer to Italy, but some guys cause the plane to set down in Malta and the killer gets away. The rest of the movie is seeing Joe Don chase the killer here and there, Joe Don getting taken into custody various times, Joe Don torturing a bartendar and being interrupted and so on. The movie is quite bad and you won't find yourself exactly pulling for Joe Don's character. You will be amazed at how many times Joe Don the hero gets taken out by one punch and how incompetent he proves to be. The crowning part of the movie comes when Joe Don chases the killer all over Malta with the killer in a priest robe and then they get in boats and he chases them all around Malta. This movie also features one of the worst closing lines to end a movie ever.
AD
