![]() Prologue, set in Renaissance Italy, involves Leonardo da Vinci, and Idiosyncratic the movie’s identity is distinctive and integral-it Veers off in directions that are as surprising as they are To end, such a prodigious, even profligate, display of imagination. With “Die Hard” or “ The Terminator,” because it offers, from beginning Nonetheless, I had a lot more fun with “Hudson Hawk” than I ever did The only actor on the set who ran roughshod over Lehmann.) It signifies humor throughout but fallsĬonsistently flat its flashily epigrammatic dialogue is oftenĬringe-worthy, and the comedic performances are flagrantly unmodulated The basic problem with “Hudson Hawk” is simple: it’s a comedy Imagination but in its cinematic imagination over all, in its power toĪstonish. The earnest classics of the genre, not merely in its satirical Masterwork, but, at its best moments, the movie is vastly superior to I only knew of “Hudson Hawk” from its reputation, and had long beenĬurious to see what actually resulted. ( A report in the Times sums up the troubles, which involve accusations that Willis was usurping Its troubled production and of its inflated budget circulated well inĪdvance of its release. But “Hudson Hawk” also got made with money, and, like the three despised classics of the eighties mentioned above, the story of Screenwriters are Daniel Waters (also “Heathers”) and Steven E. Willis and Robert Kraft (a longtime friend of Willis’s who co-wrote theįilm’s music, and also served as its executive producer) before Willisīecame famous the director is Michael Lehmann (“Heathers”), and the The idea for the film was cooked up by Bruce “Hudson Hawk,” an action comedy that’s a spoof on the genre but alsoĭelivers the expected violence both large-scale and up close, got made “Heaven’s Gate,” “One from the Heart,” and “Ishtar.” Going for it, as was the case for such nineteen-eighties films as Tomatoes, and seventeen per cent on Metacritic) likely has something ![]() Has buried it, and I know from experience that anything the criticsĭespise in lockstep (a robust twenty-six-per-cent rating on Rotten Meant to catch up with-“Hudson Hawk,” from 1991-because its reputation In that decade, there’s a film that I’ve long Stretch of eighties action films runs from 1983 (“First Blood”) to 1993 Just as the sixties, as a phenomenon, run from 1963 to 1973, the Nineteen-eighties that he’s never seen before. This month, Richard Brody reviews classic action movies from the
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