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A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.
Thomas G. Waites
- Officer Kelly
- (as Tom Waites)
John C. McGinley
- Sean Phillips
- (as John McGinley)
Henry Judd Baker
- Big Leroy
- (as Judd Henry Baker)
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Storyline
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- TriviaWe first see Richie Marks (Sam Elliott) while he is inside a movie theater showing The Soldier (1982), which was also directed by James Glickenhaus.
- GoofsAt night time, when Roland gets caught at the precinct stealing the evidence from the locker, the shot moves to an exterior shot which shows the precinct by day - very sunny - then cuts back to an interior shot, again at night.
- Quotes
Richie Marks: You know what this is?
Tommie: It's a gun! It's a gun!
Richie Marks: Yeah, and you're a fuckin' genius! Now listen up. This gun is clean, no serial number. So if I blow out what's left of your brain and chuck it in the East River, your case is closed. The people downtown are gonna file you under DSAF. "Did Society A Favor." Got it?
- Alternate versionsOn its first run past the Australian classification board, the film was rated R. To garner a wider audience, Hoyts removed approx. 1 minute of footage so that the film could get an M rating. The footage removed included the "condom" scene with the old jailer, all references to homosexuality and snitches being "turned out", the scene outside the porno theater where the Nicky Carr's right-hand man guns down the bystanders after the cops and the Russian roulette scene in the police station. this footage was never reinstated for the film's VHS or subsequent DVD release.
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It's an enjoyable action flick overall.
However it's also a buddy comedy and a courtroom drama quickly whisked together and served in one massive high protein shake.
And that's its biggest downfall.
Don't get me wrong I deeply enjoy the mindless entertainment of 80s "tough policemen" movies but the usual straightforwardness of a Schwarzenegger or a Stallone is lost here.
An amazing cast (Sam Elliott, Peter Weller and Patricia Charbonneau) which would have done really well in any high budget Hollywood production, gets involved in all kinds of extravagant and adrenalin inducing events while distilling great acting throughout and keeping up with the highly energetic pace set by director James Glickenhaus.
Not cohesive but if you're a fan of Lethal Weapon, 48 hrs or Tango and Cash it will serve you well.
- simonesecci
- Apr 28, 2020
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,068,039
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,017,800
- May 8, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $10,068,039
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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