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  Review by Robin MK ULTRA ★★★★ 1

  Absolutely love this movie. It did not get the reputation it truly deserved. If you get a chance to see film, take the chance. Its such a classic 80s film directed by Emilio Estevez. 
  You either like Emilio Estevez, or you don’t.  Growing up in the 80s, it’s hard to pass up this great flick with Emilio and Demi Moore as a couple on a road-trip adventure.

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  Review by Feck ★★★

  Seems like people rag on this movie a lot, but considering it's a big-budget film written and directed by a 24 year old trying to make something exploratory, smart and nuanced when he is clearly way over his head, it could've been a lot worse. Any scene with a voiceover was abysmal and the first half hour or so reminded me of Joker in a bad way (which is similarly lacking in subtlety and equally abysmal—it's actually probably not possible to remind me of Joker in a good way). The message was definitely preachy, overdone, and poorly-thought-out in a young idealistic sort of way.

  That being said, it was engaging throughout, I was definitely invested once the ball got rolling…

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  Review by Sergioab ★★★

  Al principio parece que su trama con un chico corrompiéndose por la falta de oportunidades será de lo más cliché posible pero poco a poco se convierte en una historia llena de crimen, drama, romance, comedia y acción que es demasiado entretenida por la dirección tan comprometida.
  Sería aburrido estarse fijando en los errores que tiene.

  Además se siente súper ochentera, Emilio Estévez fue el primer Ryan Gosling (🫃🏽)

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  Review by Nachtwaechter ★★½

  Gerade einmal 24 Jahre alt war Emilio Estevez als er mit mit "Wisdom" (der deutsche Untertitel "Dynamit und kühles Blut" wird auf ewig in den TopTen der größten Seelenfänger meiner Videothekenverganheit eingehen, auch wenn ich ihn das erste Mal auf RTL2 gesehen habe!) seiner jugendliche Energie zu kanalisieren versuchte. Antikapitalistisch und schwer systemgefährdend generiert er sich als subversives, vorbestraftes Element, das wütend auf seine ganze Umgebung ist, die ihm nicht seine Jugendsünden, bestehend aus Autoklau unter Alkoholeinfluss und Fahren ohne Führerschein verzeihen will. Was macht man, wenn der Frust zu groß wird: Man kauft sich eine Maschinenpistole, schnappt sich eine junge Demi Moore und überfällt Banken. nicht um sich selbst zu bereichern, sondern um um mal den Bürgern ihr Geld…

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  Review by ghosttape ★★★★½

  Brat Pack-Dillenger piece ushering in the triple threat (starring-writer-director) debut of my favorite of the Estevez boys, with a stone... Cold... Fox stuntin' Demi in her priz-ime as Emilio goes from dead end burger flippin'/janitor jobs to becoming an Uzi-sporting Reagan-omics-era Robin Hood: Ripping off banks for a measly $500-700 for outlaw-traveling-expenses only to fund his real M.O.: firebombing the bank's mortgage and home loan files with homemade Molotov pipe bombs. Raising the ire of the FBI, as well as his beleaguered upper-middle class parents, Tom Skerritt and sweet Ronnie Cartwright. (Dallas and Lambert 'shippers UNITE!)

  Bolstering with rich performances; a breakneck pace with no-nonsense storytelling; stunning practical car stunt smash 'em ups; a dry sense of humor that's exactly…

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  Review by brotherdeacon ★½

  To appreciate Wisdom (the film) as proffered to us, one may need to put some weird supra-post-mod spin on its reading, in which we follow documentation of a child of affluence and distinction (son of well-known movie star) who is given an opportunity to direct a Hollywood film, therein placing a sharp lens upon the U.S. privileged economic class; social celebrity status; and the possibilities of in-bred aesthetic mutations. By intentionally creating a bad film about a self-pitying child who sees his infantile idea of justice denied him, eventually segueing into an armed tantrum, the director allows his audience to perceive the reality of most Hollywood film-makers and their remove from an authentic world view: thereby using the tools of…

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  Review by ZaraGwen ★★★

  Emilio Estevez seems like a pretty nice guy

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  Review by renée ★★★ 2

  He wanted SOOOO BAD to be in badlands

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★

  Batshit crazy vanity project released a year after ST. ELMO'S FIRE that sees Emilio writing and directing his LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN, where his pretty suburban dork becomes an American folk hero, traveling across the country and destroying personal loan records in banks to free the "working man" from crushing debt. Pretty preposterous, as it plays like an infant's understanding of class politics, adopting his dad's far left politics and presenting our central Robin Hood as a crusading martyr, denied a fair shake in society because he was branded a felon on graduation day for stealing/wrecking a neighbor's car while drunk (which, you know, is a felony you fucking dumbass). Speaking of his pops, Emilio also seems to be trying…

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  Review by 🌊 audrey 🌊 ½ 6

  i want (demi) moore! #4

  Baby's first social commentary because Emilio Estevez gets in trouble for drunk driving, has to become a criminal because "society made him one," and thus blows up mortgage papers at banks to help farmers??

  Not only does none of that make any sense but it's just such a privileged man's viewpoint of social change - all the small town Midwesterners treat him like a literal saint even though his act of rebellion is stupid and self-serving because he couldn't hold a job at a burger place (kind of hilarious Charlie Sheen outacted his brother in like 45 seconds of screentime as his boss).

  Demi Moore did the best she could but it feels like another…

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  Review by mallory ♡ ★★★★

  john and karen didn't do anything wrong so what if they killed a cop let lesbians live

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  Review by Björn Odenbring ★

  Emilio Estevez plays a white, mentally sound, middle class guy brought up by a caring family, who after having lost his jobs as a cleaner and burger flipper, at the age of 23 decides to become a criminal because, as he bizarrely enough sees it, society isn't giving him any other options. Without giving it much deeper thought than that, he soon commits his first crime and in that process also easily manages to convince his girl-next-door-partner to tag along with him on a Bonnie & Clyde/Robin Hood-inspired journey through the US. It seems that Estevez was looking to update Malick's Badlands (which his father Martin Sheen acted in) for a more superficial 1980s audience. And if it's a high number of laughs per minute that you're after, Wisdom is actually superior to the original many times over.