Passable showcase for one of America's consistently funniest actors, Jack Palance. His role here is the rare intentionally funny one, as distinct from the gunslinger in Shane, let's say, or Castro in Che: a hard-bitten trail boss and honest-to-God Marlboro Man (striking a match for his ever-present cigarette across his own cheekbone), leading vacationing Yuppies on an authentic cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado. It's a measure of the comic sense of director Ron Underwood and Co., however, that the movie spends half an hour establishing the reasons why a midlife male might want to undertake such an adventure; half an hour, that is, establishing a cliché; half an hour waiting for Jack Palance's entrance. And it's a further measure of the comic sense that, with another half-hour still left in the movie, Palance is shovelled under a mound of dirt and we're stuck with nobody funnier than Billy Crystal, whose veneer of self-protection and alienation might be acceptable in the host of a TV awards show, but not in an interpreter of a character. With Bruno Kirby and Daniel Stern. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd