grantparkcinema Review of The Park Is Mine

The Park Is Mine (1985 TV Movie)

Someone Needs to make those "The Park Is Mine" tshirts from the movie.

[6/10 · 14 January 2023]

Following the success of First Blood and other attempts to cash in on the struggle of vets in overcoming their still recent emasculation, The Park is Mine strips away any unnecessary subtext and nuance, leaving a gratifying action flick that shoves its foot up the collective ass of the cops, the politicians, and even the Viet Cong, as Tommy Lee Jones uses domestic terrorism and an astronomical sense of entitlement to control Central Park as a publicity stunt to tell the world that we should be kinder to each other, not because he so desperately needs to prove to them that we could have won the war, guys, if only we'd...