Nice effects though.

From my favorite movies..

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

If anyone is wondering if "Vigilante Force" is going to be worth a viewing, just look at three things: 1) Jan Michael-Vincent; 2) Kris Kristofferson, and 3) made in 1976. Now that is the formula for a great time! The plot is simple: Kris and his war buddies are recruited by the town to clean it up, but then rule it with an iron fist (and guns, and even a bazooka). His bro Jan doesn't take kindly to this, and it all leads up the the proverbial Big Showdown.Now, when a film starts off with goofy redneck music while scenes of violence are happening, you know it's the 70's and you know you're in for a good time. There's tons of gunfire and fighting as well as bar brawls and heck, even a rootin' tootin' cockfight.The girls are absolutely gorgeous - Bernadette Peters and Victoria Principal are at their hottest.As for the cast - this is a flick with tons of familiar 70's faces, just when you think you've seen them all, another one pops up. I mean heck, even Dick freaking Miller is in this for a few seconds! And plenty of others you don't know the names of but who you definitely will recognize.Kristofferson is an actor of limited talent, playing every role he gets pretty much the exact same way, but it's all good because he's always fun to watch. Jan is always ready to mix it up, and is also a blast to watch. "Vigilante Force" is definitely a great movie to eat half a pizza to.

As written and directed by George Armitage, "Vigilante Force" is acceptable "turn your brain off", yahoo action fare, albeit with a solid premise. An excellent cast that's full of familiar faces clearly has a fine time with the material. Armitage gets down to business extremely quickly, with an energetic opening credits sequence. From then on it's a series of confrontations that culminate with a whole lot of gunfire and explosions going on.Jan-Michael Vincent plays Ben Arnold, upstanding young citizen in the small town of Elk Hills. Unfortunately the scores of men who came to work on nearby oil fields have begun to raise bloody hell in the town. In desperation, the towns' bigwigs agree to bring in Bens' brother Aaron (Kris Kristofferson), a Vietnam vet, and Aarons' wartime comrades, to try to restore law and order. Soon, however, the "solution" proves to be another problem, as Aaron lets a position of power go to his head and indulges in all manner of crooked ventures.Vincent is good, but Kristofferson out-acts him with style, bringing charisma and humour to his juicy role. The sweet and sexy Victoria Principal plays Vincents' gal pal, and the cute as a button Bernadette Peters is endearing as flaky singer "Little Dee", whose shtick involves acting as if she knows everybody. The Who's Who cast of supporting players is most impressive: Brad Dexter as the mayor, Judson Pratt as the police chief, and David Doyle as a banker, as well as Antony Carbone, Andrew Stevens, Paul Gleason, John Steadman, Charles Cyphers, and Carmen Argenziano. Bombshell actress Loni Anderson and cult icon Dick Miller have uncredited cameos.The folksy music by Gerald Fried adds to the substantial fun factor of this movie. Armitage really gives his audience their money's worth, and knows how to end things in a big way.Seven out of 10.

The title and the poster says everything you need to know about this movie.There's a trouble brewing in town, and extras are fighting all over the opening credits, and this is before there is any of the key cast introduced.Cue Vincent, a widow with a daughter who is dating Victoria Principal. Life is good.Kristofferson turns up and joins the local force as there is too much trouble for the existing troops as the fights are getting more and more insane, and the extras are starting to smile in the background.It isn't long before Blades sidekick goes the way of the dark side and starts to bat for both sides, much to the irk of Bernadette Peters.Air wolf catches on and it all ends with an exploitation special 4th of July and Kris doing his best top of the world Ma impression.It's not very good, the action and the dialogue is pretty bad, but Kris is sadistic in this, and he really makes the film worth while.If you liked movies like Gator and Hillbilly seventies action, this is for you.

This film was a throw-away 70's film. It strangely stars Kris Kristopherson, who is the bad guy in the film. Jan Micheal Vincent turns in his normal boy-next-door role 'nice' guy. I wanted to seek out and see this film. It was the last professional feature film to be shot at the Corriganville. The Ranch has a long and huge film production history from the 20's through the 70's. The property was burned out by brush fires, TWICE. Then the property was sold and finally is owned by the local city and used as a park land. It is publicly opened for tourists. Also the location for Bernadette Peter's 'The Motel' was another local landmark, famous Michigan trapper John Ehn's Sun Valley Old Trapper's Lodge. A local folk art palace that was unfortunately demolished for airport expansion, but the cement colorful western figures (indians, cowboys, farm girls) were then moved to be exhibited at a local junior college to the present day. The film is nothing special otherwise.