****SPOILERS*** Bravo performance by George C. Scott as sheep rancher Dan Logan who by finally realizing that him and his 12 year old son Chris, Nick Beauvy, as well as his sheep were exposed to the deadly MX3 nerve gas by the US Army while out camping that he takes matters into his own hands. That by going to war against the US military in the area not caring for a moment whom he hurts or kills, innocent or guilty, that he comes in contact with. Logan hospitalized with his son at a local military hospital are kept by the army doctor Major Hilford, Martin Sheen, from knowing the seriousness of their illnesses to prevent any panic from spading in the area but that soon falls completely apart. That after Chris dies and his father Dan Logan, who's been kept in the dark about his son's condition, finds out about it!
Knowing that he himself doesn't have long to live Logan having nothing to lose goes berserk arming himself with an arsenal of weapons and explosive and heads for the facility that produced the MX3 nerve gas planning to wipe it, and those in it, off the face of the map. It's then that the US military stationed at Ft. Howard sends a complete combat unit supported by some half dozen attack helicopters to stop Logan and the carnage that he's creating! With an out of control and suicidal Logan that's not an easy task from them or anyone else who tries to get in his way.
****SPOILERS**** As expected it was the MX3 nerve gas not the military who, despite all the damage he did, were reluctant to put him down that in the end did the guy in. Still Logan made his point by exposing what happened that caused heads to roll that allowed this disaster to happen and be covered up. Great man against the system film with George C. Scott, who also directed it, at his very best as the outraged father on the warpath against the US Government. Sadly a number of Logan's victims were totally innocent of the crimes committed against him and his son Chris and towards the end of of movie, by letting a trucker that he kidnapped free, he finally realized that. That was about the only right thing that Logan did in the entire movie but only after all the damage by him was already done.
P.S Check out Richard Basehart as Logan's friend Dr. Roy Cardwell who tries to talk him out of taking it out on the US military for what it, by accident, did to him and his son as well as his sheep. Who in the end was himself almost shot, by US Army sentries, for trying to get the by then totally crazed Logan to surrender before he himself is shot and killed with in fact the MX3 nerve gas by shutting his respiratory system got to do to him first!
Knowing that he himself doesn't have long to live Logan having nothing to lose goes berserk arming himself with an arsenal of weapons and explosive and heads for the facility that produced the MX3 nerve gas planning to wipe it, and those in it, off the face of the map. It's then that the US military stationed at Ft. Howard sends a complete combat unit supported by some half dozen attack helicopters to stop Logan and the carnage that he's creating! With an out of control and suicidal Logan that's not an easy task from them or anyone else who tries to get in his way.
****SPOILERS**** As expected it was the MX3 nerve gas not the military who, despite all the damage he did, were reluctant to put him down that in the end did the guy in. Still Logan made his point by exposing what happened that caused heads to roll that allowed this disaster to happen and be covered up. Great man against the system film with George C. Scott, who also directed it, at his very best as the outraged father on the warpath against the US Government. Sadly a number of Logan's victims were totally innocent of the crimes committed against him and his son Chris and towards the end of of movie, by letting a trucker that he kidnapped free, he finally realized that. That was about the only right thing that Logan did in the entire movie but only after all the damage by him was already done.
P.S Check out Richard Basehart as Logan's friend Dr. Roy Cardwell who tries to talk him out of taking it out on the US military for what it, by accident, did to him and his son as well as his sheep. Who in the end was himself almost shot, by US Army sentries, for trying to get the by then totally crazed Logan to surrender before he himself is shot and killed with in fact the MX3 nerve gas by shutting his respiratory system got to do to him first!