The Expert is a 1995 B rated (or C... or D... or F) movie starring Jeff Speakman. Within the movie, the justice system lets killers get away, prison guards are ruthless, and the police are held down with the laws. One cop, over the fear of his latest catch being sent to a minimal security prison and possibly getting out sooner than life, decides to break into a prison and kill the convicted man. Of course, the villain is not staying put and has a plan to escape from the jail.
The movie also stars James Brolin and Jim Varney.
This movie contains examples of:
- A Fool for a Client: The Big Bad is actually certain he'll eventually find a sympathetic judge or jury to send him in a less secure environment or let him go as being insane. He doesn't wait long for it to happen, though.
- Frameup: The prisoner next to the Big Bad seems to recognize his cellmate as the one who killed his wife and let him be convicted for it.
- Prison Rape: Just one of the sick jokes implied by the not-too-sympathetic-guards.
- The Shrink: The well-meaning but ineffective type. Dopey in the sense that she believes her client. Tries to get the Big Bad out of what she sincerely believes is a Split Personality disorder. After seeing him commit atrocities however, she's turned into a Strawman Political who sees the error of her ways and wants him fried.
- Split Personality: Invoked to get out of prison, not real, just part of the Insanity Defense.
- Token Minority: The Shrink, both a woman and black, indirectly the antagonist through most of the movie. In a lesser manner, the main character's partner.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Called on it, the... hero still knocks his partner out and goes for revenge.
