Hudson Hawk (Special Edition)
by Michael Lehmann
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Actor: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, James Coburn, Richard E. GrantDirector: Michael Lehmann
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Hudson Hawk (Special Edition)
Movie Review: 'Hud' isn't a total dud
Summary: 3 Stars
Cat burglar Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) is fresh out of prison and ready to go straight. Forces conspire against him when two kinky art dealers known as Darwin and Minerva Mayflower (Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard), and Kraft (James Coburn), a former C.I.A. operative, recruit him for one last job. The crooks want to get their hands on priceless Da Vinci pieces which contain magic crystals capable of turning any substance into gold. Hudson enlists the help of his best friend Tommy Five Tone (Danny Aiello) to pull off the big score. Along the way he falls for an undercover nun (Andie McDowell), and battles both the Mayflowers and Kraft's operatives. Each of the C.I.A. agents is named after a candy bar so Hudson has to outsmart the dopey Butter Finger and the master of disguise Kit Kat (a silent David Caruso). The script is an interesting mixture of dark humour and action thanks to writers Daniel Waters (Heathers) and Steven DeSouza (Die Hard). The action is all slapstick and played for laughs, right down to the sound effects. In other words over the top. It's kind of charming though. It has all the ingredients of a cult film : embarrassing one liners, character names, cameos, absurd villains. Things don't work as well as you wish but it's a movie like no other. Willis, who came up with the story, is having a ball in his star vehicle. He plays down his tough guy persona and revels in mischievous fun like trying to disrobe a nun. The always likable Aiello is great as Five Tone. Him and Hudson choreograph their robberies to old show tunes and plan everything out according to the song's running time. McDowell is great as the "damsel in a dress" and has plenty of goofy moments of her own. Grant is hilarious as Darwin and Sandra Bernhard is well Sandra Bernhard. Coburn gets to show off his martial arts skills that he learned as a student of Bruce Lee's in the climactic showdown with Hudson. This film re teams director Michael Lehman and writer Daniel Waters for the first time since 'Heathers' and odds are if you are a fan of that film or zany cult films you'll enjoy this one.
Summary of Hudson Hawk (Special Edition)
Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell and Sandra Bernhard star in this funny action/adventure comedy. Willis is Eddie "The Hawk" Hawkins, the world's most famous cat burglar, who, after 10 years in prison, is ready to go straight. But it's not going to be easy for The Hawk. The mob andthe CIA have conspired to blackmail Eddie and his partner (Aiello) into stealing three da Vinci masterpieces from the most heavily-guarded museums in the world. Sounds simple, right? WRONG! While trying to steal the goods, Hawk falls in love with a beautiful but schizophrenic nun (MacDowell) and isrelentlessly pursued by the greedy and powerful Minerva and Darwin Mayflower, who want the artworksas part of their twisted plot to ruin the world's economy. It's wall-to-wall action as the wise-cracking Hawk saves the world, wins the girl, and gets the last laugh.Bruce Willis's awful, 1991 vanity piece is an abuse of audience goodwill and a waste of a good cast and director (Michael Lehmann of Heathers). The story, cowritten by Willis, concerns a cat burglar pressured into stealing precious art, including some from the Vatican. But the script is just a convenience upon which Willis piles his vaguely boorish brand of hip irony, assuming his audience will stay with him every step of the way. Certain, self-congratulatory scenes induce cringing--Willis and Danny Aiello, for instance, sing "Side by Side" (to brassy accompaniment on the soundtrack) every time they're working a job--but the overall effect is more irritating and baffling. Keep a good thought for Willis (an underrated actor better than the summer junk we usually see him in) by checking out his superior work in Pulp Fiction and his small but memorable role in Billy Bathgate. --Tom Keogh
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