Let's be realistic.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

"You think you can take me - Go ahead on." Final Justice stars Joe Don Baker as a portly Texas Ranger, whose a bit of a firebrand, often bending the rules to suit his purposes and as far as this movie goes, this habitually results in a series of unlawful acts of violence towards people crooked or not. If find this movie to be quite uninspired on all front's, except for one, and that is the location filming on the far shores of Malta, which is an unexpectedly exotic locale for a Greydon Clark film, starring Joe Don Baker. While watching this lame 80's movie there is one glaringly obvious observation you can't help but notice and that is, once in Malta, just how starkly the big, tall, hefty Texan stands out from the hordes of slender Maltesen masses, as he's lumbering down their crowded streets and bustling market's in his cowboy boots and a ten-gallon hat.The basic plot entail's "Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III" accompanying a high-profile prisoner (an Italian mobster), back to his home country, but before the extradition is complete they're diverted to the island of Malta. Here things get complicated in a hurry and after the initial escape, the movie becomes a ham-handed (that term is ever appropriate when speaking of Joe Don Baker) game of cat and mouse on the sun-baked island of Malta. While at odd's the local authorities, the bulk of this movie features the bulk of big-bad Joe Don running amuck all over the island and in doing so he encounters many of the island's more colorful inhabitant's. The bare details sound fairly promising don't they. But just keep in mind that it's a low-budget Greydon Clark movie (did he ever make any other kind), that star's Joe Don Baker. Those two names should effectively temper ANY expectations of excellence ("Joy Sticks" is the sole exception - a riotous Clarke/Baker joint venture, released the previous year).I hate to say it, but what Joe Don's up to in this throw-away film, is not entirely far off from what Eastwood does in the Dirty Harry films. The key difference being in the case of the Dirty Harry series is, it happens to be a highly charismatic and iconic actor/director who bend's the law to his will, however, in Final Justice it's just..... Joe Don Baker. That being said, this film was made back in Joe Don's prime-era, which in his case was when he was middle-aged, in other words when he was at his heftiest/jowliest and least resembled anything of a movie star. Just his presence alone (his patent dumpiness) during that particular period usually elicits some modicum of entertainment, simply because he doesn't look like the type who should be in front of a camera - that people are actually paying money to see. A plus-sized character actor is the best way to describe Joe Don Baker's body - and body of work. This clunker of a movie makes for some terrific comedic fodder and once again I find myself reviewing a bad movie, that was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.If one were compelled to see a Joe Don Baker movie - that's actually worth seeing, I would highly recommend Joy Sticks, the three Bond films he was in (The Living Daylights/Golden Eye/Tomorrow Never Dies) or Martin Scorsese's brilliant 1991 remake of Cape Fear. Those five excellent movies are all from the 80's and 90's and fall right in line with what I said about that era being: Prime-Time Joe Don, at his jolly n' jowly best!

The only words you need fear more than Joe Don Baker if your thinking of watching a film are Greydon Clark , and if they are both there , run for your life . However this is a very funny film because they actually take themselves seriously ! It starts out bad and goes downhill from there , repeated scenes , the Good The Bad and The Ugly like shootout will have you rolling on the floor with laughter .Yes , he's the best deputy sheriff in Texas , tracking a mafia hit-man to Malta as only he can . He makes his own rules , does things his own way , all the while wearing cowboy boots and sidearms cowboy style . You want to see a bad but funny film ? Go ahead on , its your move !

Jimmy Dean could not have been more hammy or absurdly loutish. Hysterical if viewed through the eyes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, which I rate as a 10. I mean, the sight of this obese, corn-fed hog trouncing around Malta should be enough to send you to the vomitory, if you make it that far into the film. This ugly, hysterical farce should be placed with the likes of "Booty Call", "Pumpkinhead", "Swarm", and "The Smurfs Go To Bangladesh". A -gulp- film like this proves that sometimes actors, writers, producers, etc. get behind on their mortgage, or get stoned to the point of insanity. It begs the question "who was so stupid to finance such a whale?" But then, had good judgment prevailed and "Final Justice" never was, then we wouldn't have the delightful spoof voice-over in "Mystery Science Theatre 3000"!

Ah, Joe Don Baker. Star of such films as `Walking Tall' and `Mitchell'. Appearances in such decent to good films as `Congo', `GoldenEye', `Mars Attacks!', and `Cape Fear' (the Scorsese remake). Beefiest guy in Texas. Star of `Final Justice' – a mediocre film that made one of the best MST3K episodes ever. The six-ton Baker doesn't have the finesse or restraint to handle lead roles, as displayed here – and in the also MST3K'd `Mitchell', sort of a low-rent `Dirty Harry' (and the last of the Joel episodes). Here he eats, drinks milk, swears (though most of it is censored, leading endless taunts from Mike and the Bots), kills people in a variety of manners, gets arrested and put in a Maltese jail so many times it isn't funny (in fact downright disorienting after the first six times), etc. The film has no real saving graces. There is (at least by my consideration) some intelligent and well thought-out interplay between the two Mafia villains, and a few decent performances, but for the most part, the film is awful. Not God-awful, like `Space Mutiny' or `Hobgoblins', but still quite bad. The `Groundhog Day'-esque repeats of Sheriff Geronimo (Baker) laying in his jail cell, being taken out by the police, a bar being raised, and talking with the superintendent of the police station and, usually over a baby monitor, American agent Mr. Wilson (Bill McKinney, the baddie from `The Outlaw Josey Wales'), who's taking time off from his epic struggle with Dennis to attempt to stop Joe Don's antics, is just plain ANNOYING. At the end, Joe Don's girl blows away Wilson with a flare gun, Joe Don kills all of the bad guys, and then . . . it just ends. Abruptly. No explanation. Fortunately, MST3K turned this film into a hilarious viewing experience – from Crow's anti-Malta banter to the murder of cartoon character Goosio to, of course, the riffing on the film itself (`The sun is blotted out as Joe Don Baker approaches!'), almost all of the jokes work. And the end credits song (where I got the title line from) and Tom and Crow's riffing on it can't be missed. Four stars for `Final Justice'; ten for the MST3K episode. `He won't stop until he eats it all!'