Sean Lamberger When a simple, jovial New York firefighter is badly injured rushing into a fire while off-duty, his kid brother takes up his cause with the mayor after he's refused workers' compensation. Somehow that leads to a series of graffiti-based public black eyes for the administration that quickly escalate in size and media coverage. Naturally Jimmy, the barely-legal brother, is behind it all. A close follow-up to director Bob Clark's A Christmas Story, the two are, oddly, very similar in tone and candor. The whimsical, light touch works for a family holiday tale, but in a streetwise take on corrupt politicians it doesn't really fit. A stiflingly straightforward plot, one-dimensional characters and senseless love story don't help matters. This wants to seem charming, funny and intelligent, but in practice it's bland, soft and out of touch. The one real hook could've been a focus on how, exactly, Jimmy manages to constantly thwart the mayor's security measures and lay his tags, but most of that activity is left to our imagination. Weak, flavorless and bereft of passion, it's a real dud.

elshikh4 My first title was "I love the 1980s, but not to this extent!". On second thought I found that this is a bit harsh and mean to this movie.It got a fine ground for: a funny revenge story, the kid who beats the monster (or the playful resistant who beats the unjust sheriff), and the suppressed objections against a reign when go off by a hero to overthrow it. However the dealing wasn't as fine.All the time you're asking yourself : where this plot is going to ?! It's nothing but one practical joke after another. I thought that the lead will go and investigate the corruption of the mayor deeply with a game of many disguises, exposing more evidences every step ahead. But sorry. All what we had was just exposing for (Zimmerman Flew and Tyler Knew) and for endless times ! The enemy/the mayor looked so nice and helpless more than menacing or tough which weakened the conflict very. His men were talking more than doing, seeming old and defeated without anything to fight with; so more weakness for the conflict. Actually all of that turned the movie into the lamest, most boring, Robin Hood story ever!Moreover an annoying question : How the young lead could pull off all of these tricks, to sneak into highly guarded places many times without anybody seeing him ?! We didn't have the chance to watch him carefully while doing that. Seriously that could have made some thrilling scenes instead of a torpid sequence of photos! Then the matter of the climax. The mayor was finished anyway so what this last move was going to add ? It looks perfectly goofy. And what's the motive to kill Turk AND opposite to hundreds of witnesses, let alone all of these TV cameras as well??? And after the end, sure that Turk will be prosecuted for deforming the city, so how about bringing back his brother's lost rights ?So by now, it'll be cruel already to talk about things like the role of the heroine and how it was so empty, doing nothing but smooching with the lead, to sound eventually like a supernumerary. For example why she wasn't the mayor's daughter for god's sake?. Or at least a girl from his staff who believes in him then gets sympathetic with Turk's case?!! Anyway, I won't do this scriptwriter's work for him! Simply there had to be a love interest anyway, and they did it…anyway! Generally this script wanted a lot, but truly what it wanted the most was some reformation !The second killer element was the lead himself. (Timothy Hutton) ranged between blank, bland and idiot all the time, missing the charisma and the credibility. He was throwing his good lines badly, acting so uninterestingly like he's in a cold rehearsal. This is a Razzie worthy material folks (to a degree where I suspected it was deliberate !).In totally painful irony, the supporting role of the brother went to the one who got the charisma, the talent and the cuteness (Robert Urich)! This man assured here that he was undoubtedly good actor, and one of the unluckiest too. True that he'll be saved by being cast as the lead role in the TV hit series, and one of my favorites, (Spenser for Hire) in the same year, but to tell you the truth, still (Turk 183!) is his better work as an actor I have ever seen, if not the best, in spite of the fact that his cinematic career was dead and gone after it! It kills me even more when he got nominated for the Razzie of the worst supporting actor for his super performance in here ??, while in the same year (Jon Voight) got nominated for the Oscar of the best actor for his disastrous performance in (Runaway Train) !!!!! This is a mystery for me. A real provocative one !Technically speaking, it's only the editing at the last sequence which celebrated the lead to an exaggerated extent that bothered me, because aside from that the directing was so intense and attractive. The image looked bright and sharp. And there was a sweet lovable spirit all over the movie. Nevertheless, director Bob Clark's name was related to some of the most infamous movies like (Rhinestone – 1984), (Loose Cannons – 1990), and (Baby Geniuses – 1999)??. Well, sometimes the director's taste for not-so-good scripts, while leading his actors clearly bad, can destroy him!Although it got a well-meaning goal, but it isn't well made, having a not well appointed lead. Plus it doesn't stand a chance in front of its competitors in the same year : Back to the Future, Brazil, Mask, Rambo: First Blood Part II, White Nights, The Goonies, and even Summer Rental. But it's still watchable and nice compared to the year's horrible pieces : Rocky IV, Legend, Death Wish 3, and yes.. Runaway Train ! The most interesting thing about this movie is that it was made. In the 1980s there was a room for little goofy and childish movies such as this one. The executives were having the carriage to make a product with no-star, no-nudity, and no-explosion. It is a feel good movie from the 1980s with its marked innocent entertainment. Now, you've got to feel real good about that apart.

ray-280 Turk 182! is one of those films that doesn't explain itself. The plot is explained, but the culture and backdrop are not: New York City is presented in all its glory, as the bureaucracy and the politicians who run it are pitted against an injured firefighter (Robert Urich) and his graffiti-artist-turned-political-activist brother (Timothy Hutton), who ensures that neither the Mayor nor the city forget the name "Turk 182!" Kim Cattral appears as Hutton's sidekick/love-interest, and sidecar passenger in his motorcycle, in a role far more "sexier in the city" than anything she turned out in her HBO series. Notables in the remainder of the cast include Robert Culp as the over-the-top mayor who wants to regain control over the "vandalism," and Paul Sorvino in a highly amusing cameo involving the abuse of the Giants' Stadium scoreboard.In this movie, Turk's brother was injured off-duty while saving the lives of some children during a fire. Since he was drunk at the time, the city refuses to pay his medical expenses, and Turk's activism is born. Like any good graffiti artist, Turk leaves his mark anywhere and everywhere, while eluding law enforcement. As one who was a teenager living in New York City in the 1980s, and who knew several serious graffiti artists, I can say that while the movie was a sanitized version of what they do, they got enough of the flavor of that culture to show its power when confronted with an injustice.If you've never been to New York, or if you are there now but weren't in the 1980s, the movie is an excellent period piece that will reveal a great deal about the city through its backdrop and subplots, many of which were as or far more interesting than the main plot. New Yorkers generally don't care about anything that doesn't affect them, but when they do, the city literally grinds to a halt, as do the New York politicians who follow their lead.With so few movies reflecting New York City so accurately, this one is definitely worth watching, and the story it tells, however simplistic and over-the-top in its execution, is still worth telling occasionally in yet another form. This is a very intriguing film.

smidget28 Timothy Hutton is great in this flick as a young guy who uses his talents to avenge a problem in his family. When no one listens, he, by any means necessary, does something about it!!! I think it is a fun older movie that I always enjoy.