For years this film was an invisible milestone, a cult film that could only be heard about, because there were no copies in video stores, nor was it shown in film libraries. John Flynn was a reviled director who put himself at the service of Sylvester Stallone and Steven Seagal in the nineties, since the industry had forgotten and denigrated his priceless work in brutal films like The Outfit (1973) or Rolling Thunder itself, a revenge film written by Paul Schrader that now, thanks to Quentin Tarantino, finally holds the privileged place in the history of cinema that it deserves.