Last Boy Scout (1991)

Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans star as yet another pair of mismatched detective buddies in this violent, cynical action movie about a discredited Secret Service agent turned gumshoe (Willis) who teams with a former pro-football quarterback (Wayans) to investigate sports corruption. The script by Shane Black moves and feels exactly like his script for Lethal Weapon, with the same wisecracks, putdowns, fights, scenes of torture, and over-the-top climax. Willis is on autopilot, and Wayans is all right but far from charismatic. Some of the supporting cast make a bigger impression, including Halle Berry and stand-up comic Taylor Negron, who plays a very mean accomplice of the film's chief villain. The DVD release has remastered sound, optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, optional French soundtrack, and optional French, English, or Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh Amazon.com

Guilty Pleasure

I have to admit, this is one of my guilty pleasures of "filmmaking." Bruce Willis plays a down-on-his-luck PI (Who can do "down-on-his-luck" better than Bruce?) who is given a surveilance job by his partner-who incidentaly is having an affair with Willis's estranged wife. His job: to protect a stripper (Halle Berry) who is the boyfriend of ex-football hero Damon Wayans. When Halle turns up dead, the plot thickens, teaming Willis and Damon up to find the killers. It turns out that the "Killers" are a powerful footbal owner who is trying to blackmail the California governor into legalizing pro-football gambling. Again this is your basic buddy-buddy action-comedy, but Willis and Damon's chemistry make it worthwhile. December 2, 2008

The Last Boy Scout

Came early, and was in good shape.
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Thanks,
Tom November 24, 2008

The most underrated buddy cop movie of all time

You cant talk about underrated action flick without mentioning The Last Boy Scout. I mean this movie came and went and stayed off the radar for a while. Let me give you a brief description of what its about.

Bruce Willis plays Joe Hallenback, a down on his luck private investigator who comes home and finds his best friend sleeping with his wife. He later teams up with an ex-football player named Jimmy Dix(Damon Wayans) whose girlfriend Cory(Halle Berry) just got murdered.

Opinion: Lets do a quintessential buddy cop checklist and see if this movie meets those requirements.

Does it feature an unlikely pairing? Check.
Does the unlikely pairing work well together? Check.
Does it have moments of humor since one of the stars is a comic? Check.
Does it give you one hell of ride from start to finish? Check

So what the hell are these people expecting? This was made to be a popcorn flick but it was one hell of popcorn flick. Bruce Willis still shined as the action hero of the movie. Damon Wayans was funny but he also faired well when it was time to do a serious scene. I still laugh at the scene where Jimmy claims that Joe has to be the dumbest man on planet Earth because Joe is trying to solve the murder of the same best friend who slept with his wife. The audience still cares even we we come to the realization also. This movie came out at a time when you can expect a good action flick and the director Tony Scott hadnt dropped the ball yet in that department. If you dont expect oscar material you might like this one but I still think its one of the most underrated buddy cop movies of all time. October 27, 2008

Good Action Flick

Bruce is grest and so is Damon. Too bad Halle Berry dies so soon. Good action sequences. September 19, 2008

Did I just tivo Die Hard?

I love Bruce Willis - despite the fact that his characters tend to be one-dimensional, and the movies he's in tend to be heavy on explosives and light on plot. I am a hard core Die Hard fan (even the third and fourth installments). However, I was not thrilled with "The Last Boy Scout"

This movie was basically a Die Hard sequel with more gore and with a slightly less likable lead character. Cop-like character down on his luck - check. Same character having problems with wife - check. Same character spending most of the movie killing people, shouting one liners, and eventually saving the day - check, check, check.

I also DID find this movie to be misogynistic. I'm a little frustrated that most of the other reviewers didn't notice this aspect. The first woman we see (apart from cheerleaders) is a bare-breasted woman being held under water by a football player. We then get close-ups on a stripper's body parts while she dances - and is then killed. One main male character admits to cheating on his woman (said stripper) early in the movie. Finally, the "romantic" one liner is Bruce Willis saying "f#ck you" to his wife. Not really the most woman loving of films ...

However, I did occasionally laugh, and I did enjoy the surprise ending of the first football game we got to watch (though I was not sure how this played into the rest of the movie). And, of course, I do love snarky Bruce Willis ...

December 2, 2007

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