Movies
Tango and Cash
Buddy stuff. Yuppie cop and prole cop, Armani suits vs. blue jeans and T-shirt, etc. Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell each have a sense of style in the heat of the action, but the nattering wisecracks ("Where the hell did you learn to drive?" "Stevie Wonder!") keep dousing them with cold water. (Jack Palance is far more fun in the role of Mr. Big, and without recourse to wisecracks.) No wonder a newspaper headline in the final frame pleads, "Ask Not What the Critics Say." Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. 1989.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: R
