Review of The Fury (1978) by Danny R — 11 Nov 2011

An enjoyable well-made thriller from the late 70s by Brian DePalma, It begins in the mid-east where Kirk Douglas in fine shape as an ex-operative named Peter Sandza, who worked for a super-secret unnamed agency for the U.

S. government, Douglas delivers a solid star performance in the role, Peter is on vacation with his beloved son Robin who possesses a powerful psychic gift, he is well-played by young Andrew Stevens, also with them is a old friend and associate named Childress, superbly played by the late John Cassavetes, Peter informs Robin that he is being sent by the agency to a special institute for people who like him have a psychic ability, suddenly from the bench boats appear with masked men firing machine guns, killing many of people at the beach resort, during the shootout Robin gets separated from his father, Childress holds Robin back as the terrorist began to fire at Peter, he shouts out to Childress to get Robin away from the beach, Peter tries to get away on a motorboat which blown up by the terrorists, but survives and sees that Childress staged the attack so he could kidnap Robin, he picks up a machine gun and shoots him hitting him several times in the arm, but Childress gets away with Robin, he wants Peter's son so can try to harness his psychic powers as a weapon of mass destruction.

Peter is determined to get his son back so he goes underground and disappears.