People are voting emotionally.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

"The Park is Mine" is a modest yet fervent and well-intended mid-80's TV drama with a noble underlying message and a fabulous lead performance by Tommy Lee Jones. Basically speaking the film belongs in the thriller sub category of 'trouble with Vietnam veterans', but this one is of a different caliber. There where most exploitation movies deal with disillusioned veterans going bonkers and heading out on a violent murder rampage, "The Park is Mine" tries to implement a more emotional and humane approach. Sure the whole premise is completely implausible and even somewhat preposterous, but if you switch off your sense of logic for a good hour and a half, you definitely won't be bored! This is the second time Tommy Lee Jones depicts an embittered Vietnam veteran, after his role in the dark and gritty "Rolling Thunder". Mitch is an aimlessly roaming vet in New York. He can't keep a job, his wife divorced him and he doesn't get any respect from anybody is this damned city where everyone simply minds his own business. When his terminally ill war buddy commits suicide, Mitch finds out he was planning an attention- grabbing initiative in Central Park. Mitch executes the plans and takes control over the park. His peaceful but nevertheless explosive attempt to make people more aware of life receives a lot of interest from the media and support from the populace, but it's quite an embarrassment for the authorities – and particularly for the deputy mayor – so they try to eliminate Mitch in any possible way they can. There are some nice photographic shots and explosions, but this is primarily Tommy Lee Jones' movie! He's excellent, charismatic and quite overpowering with his painted face and mirror sunglasses. His great acting compensates even for the stupidest plot twists (Vietcong mercenary in Central Park? !?) and the clichéd ending. Jones also receives pretty good support from Yaphet Kotto as the likable copper and Peter Dvorsky as the sleazy deputy mayor.

**SPOILERS** Like most Vietnam Vets Mike, Eric Peterson, was lost in the shuffle when he came back from the war with severe mental and emotional problems. Mike was totally ignored by both the Veterens Administration and his family members feeling that he was just too unstable and ill-tempered to have anything to do with. Seeing no way out of the hell he found himself in and no one to turn to Mike did the only thing that he felt that could do to take him out of his miseries; jump to his death from the top of the fleabag hotel he was staying in.Sending a letter to his fellow Vietnam Vet and good friend the also very troubled Mitch, Tommy Lee Jones, Mike wanted him to finish the job that he started out to do. Take over New Yorks Central Park for 72 hours, over the Veterans Day Weekend, and hold it all all cost. This bizarre action would throw light on not only the forgotten and ignored veterans in the city and country but all the other unfortunates who slipped through the cracks and were left out in the cold by an ungrateful and unfeeling nation. Mitch took up with where Mike left off arming himself to the teeth with and arsenal of weapons, that Mike hid all throughout the park, and ammunition that would equipped a fully armed and supplied infantry battalion. By the time the 72 hours were up Central Park New York City or for that matter the entire country would never be the same again and neither would Mitch. A bit overdone, one man holding off the entire NYPD of over 30,000 men & women, but still powerful film that has to do with a person who was driven to do the impossible, as well as insane, and in the end succeed against overwhelming odds. Where at the same time not really knowing, or even caring, if he lived or died throughout the ordeal that he not only put himself but the entire city of New York through.Tommy Lee Jones is perfect, and in fighting trim, as Mitch the man with the plan who takes on all comers in his determined attempt to hold off the entire New York Police Department, as well as a number of hired anti-guerrilla foreign mercenaries, to call attention to the sad and sorry plight of his fellow Vietmnam Vets like his late friend Mike. Not wanting to hurt anyone Mitch used for the most part magazines of blanks and non-lethal explosives to hold off the NYPD and unites of the New York State National Guard. It's when the man in charge of capturing him the politically conscious Deputy Mayor Dix, Peter Dvorsky, orders the police to shoot to kill and even brought into the park armed and kill crazy mercenaries Mitch had no choice but but was himself forced to shoot to kill and ask questions later.There's also photo journalist Valery Weaver, Helen Shavers, who ends up getting trapped inside the park, trying to get the big story, and becoming Mitchs hostage and later biggest supporter. Valary ends up filming Mitch's every action and statements to show the outside world just what he's really all about. Valerys involvement with the troubled Vietnam Vet almost has her killed by he two mercenaries who were sent into the besieged park by Deputy Dix to kill him. We also have Mitch's old lady Rachel, Gale Garnett, who refused to have anything to do with her husband and didn't even let Mitch see their infant son. Rachel feels now, after what Mitch pulled off, if she only paid some attention to him all this would have never happened. And last but certainly not least there's NYPD Captain Eubanks, Yaphet Kotto, who despite his boss' double-dealings and double-crossing of the fugitive Mitch refused to go alone with them. Risking suspension or even termination of his job. Capt. Eubanks in the end is the person who got Mitch, after the 72 hours were up, to turn himself in with a minimum of violence and destruction.The end of the movie has Central Park light up like a Christmas Tree with Mitch setting off all the explosives that he had still left to let those who tried to stop him, as well as most of the people in the city who were pulling for him, see that he got his message through even though it may well have cost him his freedom. Mitch showed in what he did that for the 72 hours had New York's Central Park totally and completely under his control and no one, not even the entire NYC police force, could take it from him.

Like many of the Reagan era action movies, it is rampantly xenophobic, incrediably incoherent, and in no way grounded in reality. Tommy Lee (not the hair band drummer)plays a Vet who takes over central park to generate sympathy for the forgotten soldiers of that war. A noble sentiment, but a man would have to be completely out of his gourd to attempt that...its not like the park has a series of fortified bunkers and a moat around it!!! The most insane plot twist (no one is in suspense about this piece anyway) is that the "authorities" hire two Asian assasins to take out the hero. What the $%^#$^! is that all about? It is just one of the many warped plot contrivances that earn this work a lofty six on the Tango and Cash scale of implausability. Forgive the spelling.

Tommy Lee Jones does his part to hold this movie together, and that's about the only thing going for it. The plot about one man taking over Central Park (!) is highly improbable, but makes for a good Saturday afternoon action flick. Don't put a lot of thought into this movie, just enjoy it for what it is!