Let's Get Harry

Just saw this after 30 years. And it didn't bother me that back then I wasn't bothered by this movie.

In Columbia two Americans get kidnapped. One is the US ambassador and the other a plumber named Harry Burck ( Mark Harmon ) from a small town in Illinois.

Fun action flick with great performances by Busey,Harmon and Duval. Predictable cheese with explosions.

Part of the "men-on-a-mission" cycle of the action war films craze during the 80's Era, spreading the jingoistic 'feelgood' of the Reagan Administration, "Let's Get Harry", directed by the veteran filmmaker, Stuart Rosenberg ("Cool Hand Luke", "The Amityville Horror"), tells the story of a group of blue collar workers from the Midwest who hire two Vietnam vets for a mission to rescue the older brother of one of them, held captive in Colombia by a drug dealer.Rosenberg disowned the film, apparently when the producers took full control over the editing process and the film's direction is then credited to Alan Smithee, the well-known pseudonym used by directors who don't want their involvement in a film.

It's no wonder this ultra-right wing fantasy never made it to theaters: besides stretching credibility to the outer limits of logic and coherence, it tacitly criticizes the Reagan administration as wimps for not effectively dealing with the threat of terrorism (presumably by nuking them out of their Third World foxholes). Mark Harmon plays an American engineer kidnapped in Bolivia by some very well dressed freedom fighters, prompting his beer-drinking buddies back in Aurora Illinois, to stage a daring paramilitary rescue in the jungles of South America (which look suspiciously not unlike Southern California).

Hello, most people don't like this movie because it was thin in certain areas of the film, listen it's a pure guy movie with tons of action, comedy, and a good acting,not many 80's movies that were action had much story lines to them anyway, it's a feel good story about a group of midwestern men who find out the towns hero in many ways, has been kidnapped and the government wont lift a finger to help since Harry and the other captive aren't worth a rescue, but 5 guys decide they are gonna to go and rescue harry, this movie is a must see for any fan of action, good story, and lot of named actors, don't pay attention to the morons on here who wrote a bad review, what do they expect an Oscar award for this type of movie, it's a buddy, guy movie it's about not sitting by and letting your good friend be killed.while the government seems to not give a s***, if you enjoy a good action movie, with just a feel good story and plenty of action don't pass up this rare gem.

This is just another movie about the evil Colombian guerrillas and the brave American heroes. bloody as it can be the movie only portraits the "bad" part of a beautiful country.

A plot similar to this film was hatched by H. Ross Perot, as written in the book "On the Wings of Eagles," by Ken Follett about a situation in Iran which was very similar to this movie.

The cast and the plot outline suggested an action-packed thriller. Instead, through a lack of intelligence, or just laziness, we get a cartoon,filled with irksome inconsistencies...