In the 1980s, there were no bigger action movie stars than Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The film then sees the gang target Joe.
The Samaritan has super strength and durability, as well as a healing factor, with one major downfall.
When he heals, he starts to overheat and needs something to cool down before he possibly explodes.
Throughout the film, Joe shows that he can take a beating, much like most Sylvester Stallone characters.
Sylvester Stallone toldSyFy:
“I thought that this guy, his trait would be in his resolve.
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He still has great physical power as opposed to speed and he’s not jumping through the air.
He’s just a unique sort of superhero, like a modern-day Hercules.
In 1995,Stallone played his first super character in the science fiction filmJudge Dredd.
In Samaritan, Granite City was once protected by a vigilante superhero known as Samaritan, who supposedly died in a battle with his greatest foe, Nemesis. Sam Cleary, a boy who believes Samaritan is still alive, lives with his mother living in poverty and struggling to make ends meet. When Sam accepts a job from a gang leader that goes sideways, Sam is attacked by the gang until a garbage collector shows up and single-handedly stops the gang’s attack. The garbage collector, known as Joe Smith, exhibits superhuman strength in this heroic act, which leads the young boy to believe the older man is Samaritan.
While he has no superpowers, he is a larger-than-life figure in an expansive universe.
He is a man-eating shark-human hybrid.
WhileThe Samaritanpresents Stallone’s strongest human character, he has taken on some fantastical roles later in his career.
