gene hackman

A 1983 rescue romp has muscled its way into Netflix’s Top 10, putting Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze back in living rooms beside Fred Ward and Robert Stack. Ted Kotcheff’s Uncommon Valor, once shrugged at by many critics, now sits at number five, buoyed by a fanbase that prizes its grenade-blast exuberance as much as its father-son quest into Laos. The Tomatometer may linger at 50 percent and IMDb at 6.3, yet even the New York Times tipped its hat to the film’s effects. Chalk it up as a second life for a Paramount war picture that refuses to stay in the past. Some movies slip quietly off the