How can a fan of 70s cinema not respect the projects Don Johnson picked once he hit 60?
As the corrupt chief of police in Rebel Ridge (2024)
He was always smart at selecting directors to work with (Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Roland Joffe, Dennis Hopper, Ron Shelton) but despite his solid performances, many of those projects turned out to be duds and his movie career never quite took off the way it was expected to.
Up to no good in Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2017)
More recently Johnson has made outstanding crime films collaborating with hotshots Jeremy Saulnier, S Craig Zahler (twice), and Jim Mickle, besides giants Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (also twice).
In the hugely underrated Cold In July (2014)
He's defying the most wussified era since the 1980s by choosing to be in the grittiest and grimiest throwbacks to the 1970s. Often playing the villain, sometimes the young hero's wise, old partner, he's filling the gigantic void left by performers such as James Coburn and Roy Scheider.
Playing the racist vigilante in Machete (2010)
At 75 years old he's still kicking ass and taking names with no signs of slowing down. Mr. Johnson, we salute you!
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