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Description:Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1991 / Director: Tony Scott / Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans ... / ... more

The Last Boy Scout (DVD) ... DVD released 26 April, 1999 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / In giving 1991's The Last Boy Scout a three-star review, critic Roger Ebert was properly performing his duty as an objective reporter, praising the filmmakers' professional skill while observing that "the only consistent theme of the film is its hatred of women". For the purposes of this capsule review, there's no such obligation to level-headed fairness; the simple truth is, this ultraviolent, action-packed vehicle for Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans is disgustingly rotten to the core. Not only is it fuelled by a bitter and spiteful attitude toward women, it's also the kind of profanely vulgar movie that doesn't hesitate to put foul-mouthed children in the path of vicious thugs and potentially deadly situations. Willis plays an ex-secret service agent turned private detective who is hired to protect a stripper (Halle Berry) and then teams up with the stripper's boyfriend (Wayans), a disgraced NFL star who was kicked out of football for gambling. They catch on to a criminal plot leading all the way up to a corrupt football team owner who wants to legalise gambling on pro football. Willis and Wayans get in and out of all sorts of trouble along the way, and naturally there are plenty of explosions to go along with the brutal beatings, gunfire and constant cussing. Shane Black (of Lethal Weapon infamy) set a Hollywood record (since broken, several times) for the sale price of his slick but vile screenplay and Top Gun director Tony Scott handles the action with his trademark gloss and high-impact style. But, seriously, is this a movie that anyone could bear to watch twice? --Jeff Shannon

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 ... is plenty of action in this movie with a few twists and turns along the way. I have to admit that it is exciting and I found it intriguing and interesting from start to finish. The movie kept me guessing all the way which is great and has the right mix of drama violence but never over the top. It is not a bad action movie and you can probably pick it up on DVD not for under £5 which is worth it. If you like Bruce Willis in his other movies then you will no doubt enjoy this too....more

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Dangey2009
The Last Boy Scout (DVD): The Last Boy Scout (299 words)
by - written on 18/04/10 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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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

adambrown400
Go buy yourself a new pair of pants. (439 words)
by - written on 26/03/10 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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'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

shaneo632
The Last Boy Scout (DVD): Hilarious buddy cop film (342 words)
by - written on 11/09/09 (Very useful, 3 readings)
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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

pmcds
Surf's up, pal! (432 words)
by - written on 09/12/08 (Very useful, 81 readings)
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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

xtincol
The Last Boy Scout (DVD): A Willis classic - and then some (715 words)
by - written on 24/09/06 (Very useful, 72 readings)
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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