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Original Title: The Hard Way
Genge: Action,Comedy,Crime
Hollywood movie star Nick Lang is after a role as a policeman, and to get background, pulls strings to get seconded to a New York detective for a fortnight. Lt. John Moss is less than overjoyed by his new partner who is soon cramping his rough streetwise style. But when it comes to getting on with the lovely Susan, the lieutenant could do a great deal worse than listen to Nick's advice.
An action movie star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York City policeman, who finds him superficial and irritating.
From director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever), I was mainly attracted by it being a crime film with some good stars in it, so I decided to try it. Basically well-known actor Nick Lang (Michael J. Fox) is a after a role as a cop for a new movie, and to get motivation and inspiration for his character he decides to spend a fortnight with tough NYPD Detective Lt. John Moss (James Woods). The only problem is that Moss hates seeing him nearly everywhere he goes, and he is trying to concentrate more on catching a cold-blooded serial killer, the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang). So Lang, under the name Ray Casanov, is for a while cramping Moss's style, but they do slowly help each other out, Moss with Lang's character development (sort of), and Lang with following clues to catch the killer. Also starring The Hand That Rocks the Cradle's Annabella Sciorra as Susan, Delroy Lindo as NYPD Captain Brix, Luis Guzmán as NYPD Detective Benny Pooley, Mary Mara as NYPD Detective China, LL Cool J as NYPD Detective Billy, John Capodice as NYPD Detective Grainy, Christina Ricci as Bonnie, Big director Penny Marshall as Angie - Nick's Agent, Kathy Najimy as Lang's Girl Friday, Mos Def as Dead Romeos and Night at the Museum's Bill Cobbs as Raggedy Man. Woods and Fox make quite a good argumentative buddy duo, Lang is a good over-the-top villain, and there are a few good explosions and chases, so it is quite a worthwhile action comedy. Good!
The Hard Way is set in New York where detective John Moss (James Woods) is on the case of a ruthless killer nicknamed the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang) who taunts police as shoots people dead, he phones the police & invites them to watch as he kills people. While chasing the Party Crasher detective Moss is injured & his boss Captain Brix (Delroy Lindo) takes him off the case in order to babysit rich Hollywood action film star Nick Lang (Michael J. Fox) who is researching a role as a cop poses as Moss' new partner, Moss is horrified at having Lang follow him around as he won't let the Party Crasher case go & drags Lang into it...
Directed by John Badham this action comedy thriller is the second Badham flick I have seen in the space of twenty four hours, I didn't plan it that way but the other was Blue Thunder (1983) & having watched both for the first time I am struck that while they are both decent enough action thrillers neither are particularly great & both feel rather routine. Here in The Hard Way we have the whole mismatched cop partners scenario with average results, a popular but over-crowed genre at the time there are better examples that spring to mind such as Lethal Weapon (1987), Red Heat (1988) & Tango & Cash (1989) to name but three. The difference fans of the film will point to is that Lang is an action film star but for all intents & purposes The Hard Way plays out like a straight cop thriller with little in the way of depth. The two main character's of Moss & Lang are great & equally great performances by Woods & Fox carry the lightweight script & it's them who make this as watchable as it is, the interplay between the two is funny at times & the gradual warming of the character's towards each other works pretty well. However beyond a spirited couple of leads The Hard Way is routine & clichéd, there's the grumpy police captain, the bad guy with a personal vendetta against the hero, the veteran cop & his rookie partner, a love interest & a final confrontation to the death. The Hard Way is also very predictable in the way it unfolds, at over 110 minutes it's maybe a little long, Moss or any other NYPD cop doesn't seem to do any real police-work other than what he wants & the Party Crasher is given virtually no background or motivation other than the excuse he was killing criminals which gets explored with all of one line of dialogue.
There are some funny moments here for sure but maybe not quite enough, Moss screeching through New York shouting profanity as everyone around him or the one to one in a bar with Lang where he pretends to be Moss' girlfriend is also a highlight but beyond the energy & goodwill brought to the film by the two leads (both character's & actor's) there's just not that much here as any sort of plot takes a back seat. While not particularly violent The Hard Way is full of profanity so if you have sensitive ears in that regard be prepared. The action is pretty good but there's not enough of it, there's a couple of car chases & stunts, an explosion at a petrol pump & the final confrontation above Times Square in New
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