The Specialist is another release from B-movie producers Crown International Pictures. It's about the unethical relationship a lawyer develops with a female juror assigned to a case he is working on. Unbeknownst to him, she is a plant who has been hired to have an affair with him under the instructions of the opposing lawyer in the case. She is the specialist of the title, a professional seductress / femme fatale.
This one features Adam West, the TV Batman, in the central role. It's a film with considerably more promise than delivery. As while the basic set-up is quite good, the execution is very underwhelming. It's sort of part courtroom drama, part thriller and part comedy, without ever really focusing on any particular genre enough to do it justice. It's probably a bit too talky for its own good too and, overall, it doesn't ultimately deliver very much. It does however have an unexpectedly decent funky soundtrack which wouldn't have sounded out of place in a Blaxploitation flick and it also features an unexpectedly nihilistic ending which some people seem to hate but which I though was the best, and most distinctive, individual aspect pertaining to the movie overall.
This one features Adam West, the TV Batman, in the central role. It's a film with considerably more promise than delivery. As while the basic set-up is quite good, the execution is very underwhelming. It's sort of part courtroom drama, part thriller and part comedy, without ever really focusing on any particular genre enough to do it justice. It's probably a bit too talky for its own good too and, overall, it doesn't ultimately deliver very much. It does however have an unexpectedly decent funky soundtrack which wouldn't have sounded out of place in a Blaxploitation flick and it also features an unexpectedly nihilistic ending which some people seem to hate but which I though was the best, and most distinctive, individual aspect pertaining to the movie overall.