We’d have to put out a thousand page, hard-bound almanac to cover them all, so The Fix has decided to just cover one classic Stallone movie moment every month.
#1 – The Specialist (1994): Busted!
Stallone plays ex-CIA explosives specialist Ray Quick, a bomb maker for hire who travels everywhere by bus. Whilst helping Sharon Stone get revenge against evil henchman Ned, Quick boards the No. 5.
A gang of ponytailed hoodlums sit at the back listening to loud Rumba music on their boom box. An elderly, pregnant Latino lady makes her way down the aisle, but there are no seats.
“Here, take mine” offers Quick, but before she can sit down the seat gets stolen by a thug.
Shocked, Quick explains through gritted teeth, “That seat’s taken”.
“Fuck you”, the thug responds.
“Excuse me?”
“Fuck you”, he repeats.
Handing his sunglasses to the old pregnant lady, Quick somersaults the ruffian onto the floor, kicking him in the groin and thorax. A second brute attacks. Quick elbows him twice in the throat, slamming his knee in his face. A third rascal attacks with a knife. Quick breaks his hand, slaps him five times, finishing with an uppercut.
“I’ll kill you, you…you…sonofa…”, the first yobbo shouts.
But Quick swings on the handrail, smashing him through the bus window and on to the hot, unforgiving tarmac of the street. The pregnant gran steps forward and hands Quick his sunglasses. “I believe there’s a vacancy”, Quick quips wryly, gesturing to the empty seat.
Justice is done.






