I have always really enjoyed watching Bruce Willis in alot of his movies and his action movies like Die Hard are great. The Last Boy Scout is another pretty good action/adventure movie that was released in 1992. In this movie Bruce Willis plays a former Secret Service agent named Joe. He has been discharged from the service and is not working as an investigator. He is very down and and his family hates him. This is quite similar to his other roles like in Die Hard where at the start of the movie he is the hated hero who is divorced or something like that. He attempts to get a protection job in which he has to watch over an exotic dancer who is ...  Read the complete review

'This is the '90s. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first.' Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) is a burned out private detective who used to be a high ranking bodyguard. Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans) is an ex-LA Stallions football player. Together they investigate the murder of a local stripper (played by a then unknown Halle Berry), but just who is behind this murder- and odes it involve people from their past? Bruce Willis is his usual wisecracking self, here almost a carbon copy of John McClane from the Die Hard films - right down to wearing a vest for most of the film. He looks very little different than he looks ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears on Flixster and The Student Room in part The Last Boy Scout harkens back to a more innocent time where one could get away with a rousing R-rated buddy cop film that also had some smart laughs and charismatic leads. The buddy cop genre, sadly, has mostly degenerated into crude laughs and leads that just don't have the "wow" factor to carry off what is otherwise a decent enough idea. The Last Boy Scout makes me wish we were still in the 1990s mindset of cinema, instead of crudely churning out brainless flicks that don't really deliver the action either. This film is an antidote to that creative stagnation. Bruce Willis ...  Read the complete review

Bruce Willis must have had a wonderfully fun time in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the run of action films he had the chance to apply his stubble to. The 1991 film Last Boy Scout was one such film, and combined Willis' ability to play the detective in hard times with one of the fast talking Wayans brothers, Damon in this case. Tony Scott took the director's chair for this ride. Joe Hallenbeck is a private detective down on his luck. His estranged wife is seeing another man and wants Joe out of her life, while his daughter is growing up and out of control, becoming more aware of the dangers of daddy's job. When Joe teams up with disgraced former ...  Read the complete review

For some, Bruce Willis has fashioned a fine acting career from little actual acting talent. For those in that camp, they'll point to the usual Willis actioners in which, more often than not, he'll run around wearing little but sweat spray, a gun and a vest. Others will point to his fine understated performances in M. Night Shyamalan's best works to date, Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. They'll point out that people forget his superb performance in Twelve Monkeys (where, remarkably he's overshadowed by an amazing performance from Brad Pitt - who in turn is overshadowed by Gilliam's direction), or a performance in The Fifth Element that presented a controlled air ...  Read the complete review