Bruce Willis,
Damon Wayans,
Chelsea Field,
Noble Willingham,
Taylor Negron
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Producer Joel Silver, director Tony Scott, and screenwriters Shane Black and Greg Hicks team up for this gridiron-set action thriller. Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-l... read more
Directed by: Tony Scott
Release Date: December 13, 1991
Keywords:
action,
cop,
buddy,
action movie,
bruce willis,
tony scott,
damon wayans,
Bruce Willis ,
Tony Scott ,
Die Hard ,
Damon Wayans
DVD Release Date: May 26, 1998
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December 7, 2011I love Bruce Willis but why did I waste my life watching this terrible movie.
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February 2, 2011A ridiculously cool buddy action movie that almost makes it to Lethal Weapon status. This is way more comedy based, but it has enough action to go around as well. Bruce Willis is perfect in these types of roles, it doesn't even seem like he has to try in order to nail the charact... read more
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August 23, 2010I think it is somewhat unfair to just pass this off as another dumb fun shoot em' up. It's script is brilliant, Shane Black is a brilliant writer too, and this film is very funny but it certainly doesn't lack the all important occasional (and appropriate) exploding head here and ... read more
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January 15, 2010Say what you will about Tony Scott. The man gets his hands on some high octane material. This time around it's just as funny as it is action-driven. Well worth your time.
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September 28, 2009A bad action flick but fortunately has some funny moments & is fun to watch at times
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April 15, 2009Say what you will about these "buddy movies" from the 90's, but they have a likability to them that is pretty rare in the action genre these days. Granted that this is just another brick in the wall among films like the Rush Hour and Lethal Weapon series, but it's one that undeni... read more
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November 25, 2007An explosive action-packed thrill machine. Powerful. Gritty. Exciting. Original. Outragiously funny. A tounge in cheek, character driven action flick thats hard to resist. Bruce Willis and Damon Wayne are fantastic. They play each other off perfectly as a great and charasmatic bu... read more
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Strictly for viewers who don't want surprises, just a laundry list of buddyisms. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie has a lot of laughs, its action sequences are thrilling, its surprises are startling, and it shows a real ingenuity in the ways by which it gets Willis into, and out of, trouble. Full Review
January 17, 2012
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Everything seems mechanical, forced and contrived. Full Review
January 19, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
The apotheosis of the modern interracial-buddy action film genre. Full Review
January 25, 2006
Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily
A slick, big-budget exploitation movie that's preposterous, foul-mouthed and gratuitously violent, but also a great deal of fun.
June 21, 2005
Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International
Ludicrous but undeniably fun, hard-core action
December 22, 2003
Gabe Leibowitz, eCinemaCenter.com
Overblown rubbish, with nothing to hang on to save the opening football field scene
September 17, 2002
Clint Morris, Moviehole
The script might be average, but the action is unstoppable!
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