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Rolling Thunder

Major Charles Rane has come home to war!

1977 · 1h 40m · R Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by John Flynn

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Overview

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Performances are made crystalline through a sixth sense for camera placement and curt cutting from director John Flynn, whose 2007 passing was little noted, though his no-BS way of laying down a story is a rare commodity in any era.

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Rotten

In sum, it neither rolls nor thunders.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

[It] has some good things, but in the way it has been directed by John Flynn it moves so easily and sort of foolishly toward its violent climax that all the tension within Charlie has long since escaped the film.

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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