Don Johnson Mickey Rourke Here I Am Shit Faced Again
Butch and Sundance ride once again
Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man is a film not for the serious and not for the serious minded. This modernistic version of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid casts Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as a pair of devil may care bikers who alive by their own rules and cross back and along between the law and beingness outlaws. Sometimes they blend the line real close.
Considering some tight bankers are trying to foreclose on a favorite bar hangout of their's, just for a lark these two determine to rob the banking concern that's giving them the grief. Simply like in Charley Varrick it turns out to be a syndicate front that not only launders money, just keeps the drugs on premises including a new designer drug that these 2 walk off with the prototype.
I will say that Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson have the same easy going chemistry that Paul Newman and Robert Redford had. They make a somewhat silly plot easy to digest.
Daniel Baldwin of the thespian Baldwin family also looks like he's feasting on the furniture playing the head bad guy. There's a gimmick involving a pair of one-time and patchworn boots that Don Johnson wears. In that concluding showdown with Baldwin those boots actually play a part in the climax.
This 1 is i to bask and not get as well cerebral over.
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bad guys look too featherbrained
Biker Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) joins upwardly with his cowboy friend Robert Lee Anderson aka The Marlboro Man (Don Johnson). Their friend is in danger of losing his bar to the depository financial institution. The boys and other cohorts determine to rob an armored truck from Great Trust Bank. Only they are attacked by heavily armed assassins. They escape with bags that are surprisingly filled with a special new drug. The banking company president Take a chance Wilder (Tom Sizemore) is dealing the drugs and uses his gunmen to hunt down the boys.
It'due south a light-headed action B-motion picture. I'grand willing to purchase the ridiculous championship characters played competently by these two actors. They seem to have fun and this movie could be fun. Yet the villains especially the black coated assassins are too ridiculous. It pushes information technology over the edge for me. I can't enjoy this when it looks so stupid.
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"It's a practiced day for dying. I'll exercise information technology slow"
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I probably would have liked this picture show a lot better back when it first came out. I was still a pro wrestling fan back then, then seeing Big John Studd would have been a treat. Except for being overweight, he looked better and younger here, well after his wrestling career was over. I had to wonder though what happened to his cauliflowered brow from all those blading jobs he did back then. Then now you fast forrard to the tardily 2000'due south and Mickey Rourke really becomes "The Wrestler" and it'southward like coming total circumvolve.
I was reading the other reviews on this site, and was intrigued past the number of comparisons given Rourke and Don Johnson to Redford and Newman. I had the aforementioned thought while watching the moving-picture show, just not because this was such a cracking buddy motion picture. The story really ripped off two "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" gimmicks - the 'Who are you guys?' line, and the buddy bound off the cliff to escape the posse. As far as their buddy chemistry went, I'm not convinced they were as tight as Butch and Sundance, and certainly not in the same league.
As for action and plot, this one'southward been done dozens of times, and at best is passable for a couple of hours of low-cal entertainment. I was probably most intrigued by the movie references made by all the memorabilia in the Old Human'south bar, especially the poster and statue honoring John Wayne's "Hondo". Information technology seems I but saw a film with another Hondo poster in information technology not too long ago - "The Man With Bogart'southward Confront". I of the benefits of being an circumspect movie fan.
Anyway, I was never a large Don Johnson fan, and as for Rourke, information technology looked like he was doing Bruce Willis hither just a couple of years after Willis got his big movie break with "Die Difficult". Suffice information technology to say that this was no crystal dream, and if I might point to another buddy flick, "Tango and Cash", this one might not quite have been FUBAR, but it was pretty close.
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Undemanding fans of "buddy" activity comedies may dig information technology.
Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson are the title characters, an outlaw biker and sometime rodeo cowboy, respectively. Harley rides his bike back to L.A. in a slightly "futuristic" year (1996) to hook up with old pals such equally Marlboro, Jimmy (Giancarlo Esposito), Jose (Eloy Casados), Jack (wrestler Large John Studd), and their father figure (Julius Harris), who runs the Rock 'n' Whorl Bar and Grill. It's about to be foreclosed past a greedy depository financial institution, and so Harley gets the bright idea to concur upwardly that same banking concern for the money. However, the take is not money merely a new street drug, "Crystal Dream". Harley and Marlboro must spend the rest of the movie dodging persistent muscle men who correspond the villain, Chance Wilder (Tom Sizemore).
This movie is non so much blatant production placement (as the opening text tells us), as it is a adequately goofy, mildly agreeable action thriller. There's goose egg special hither, only the pace, the costumes (dig those bulletproof overcoats on the thugs), the soundtrack, the solid supporting bandage, and the rapport betwixt Rourke and Johnson get in all watchable enough. Screenwriter Don Michael Paul does requite our two leads some good character defining moments, as well as a romantic angle equally Marlboro realizes that he'south about to lose his girlfriend Virginia Slim (Chelsea Field) for practiced. Although this movie does get grim and pretty violent, it'southward notwithstanding not something to take all that seriously. Information technology sure as Hell doesn't worry about things such as credibility.
Field at to the lowest degree has some fabric to piece of work with, but the other super sexy ladies present (Vanessa Williams, Tia Carrere, and Kelly Hu) barely get anything to do. The cast also includes familiar faces such as Daniel Baldwin (as the primary henchman), Robert Ginty, Branscombe Richmond, and Sven-Ole Thorsen, with old pro Harris standing out. Sizemore is okay, but his bad guy role lacks whatever sort of personality or real threat. One funny touch is that Rourkes' Harley is NO skilful with a gun.
Unmemorable, only information technology's decent brainless fun for 99 minutes.
Half dozen out of x.
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The Ride of Your Life!!!
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"Quigley Downward Under" managing director Simon Wincer's dystopian western "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" qualifies as the prototype of a costless guilty pleasure movie. Despite their virulent antipathy for each other, leading men Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson convey a brotherly sense of charisma that makes them both appealing and sympathetic as the underdogs. Equally Harley, Rourke is a gearhead who repairs bikes and has recently sworn off alcohol, while Marlboro is a former rodeo passenger with a Wild Beak Hickox goatee who wraps his worn-out boots with duct tape rather than buy a new pair. Somewhen, nosotros learn from Marlboro why he treasures his tattered, woebegone roach stompers, because they were the only thing his begetter gave him. Tom Sizemore drools villainy as a greedy bank CEO named Hazard Wilder who makes nearly of his coin from selling a toxic drug designated Crystal Dream. Scenarist Don Michael Paul, who also wrote the Steven Seagal thriller "Half-By Dead," penned "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man." Clearly, Paul must have seen both "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" also as the Steve McQueen detective classic "Bullitt." Our underdog heroes resemble Butch and Sundance, with Harley like Butch, and Marlboro similar Sundance. Indeed, Butch cannot shoot with a hoot, merely Marlboro is a crack shot with any firearm, including the .44 magnum Desert Hawkeye automatic that Harley presents him on early Marlboro motorbike craps out on him. Similarly, our heroes never seem to stop bickering. These guys are constantly struggling to elude Risk Wilder'south indefatigable posse of henchmen garbed in blackness, shrink-wrap-around, Kevlar impenetrable coats. At 1 bespeak, these guys follow Harley and Marlboro from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and they track them down to their motel room. Desperate to escape from these guys, our heroes hurl themselves off the roof of the Vegas casino as the gunman prove up with their submachine guns and riddle everything in sight. Predictably, Harley and Marlboro imitated Butch and Sundance when they took the plunge some fifteen or more stories into a conveniently located pond pool. Not surprisingly, they emerge none the worse for habiliment.
Again, we have a story that pits the little guys against the corporate big-wigs. Information technology seems that a favorite Burbank nightclub run by the Old Homo (Julius Harris of "Live and Allow Die") is nigh to lose the lease that he negotiated for xxx years to Chance Wilder. Wilder demands that the Old Human being pay $ii.5 million to keep on selling drinks, but he lacks the loot. Harley decides that they demand to rob the bank to get the Quondam Man the coin that he rightfully deserved.
Unfortunately, Harley thought that the Grand Trust Bank armored car would be transporting loot instead of the latest designer drug Crystal Dream. Now, our heroes want to negotiate with Wilder, but he doesn't make time for them. Undoubtedly, this is Don Michael Paul's all-time screenplay. The dialogue is tricky, peculiarly Don Johnson'due south folksy anecdotes about his dear, departed begetter. Furthermore, Paul foreshadows the demise of Chance Wilder from the first moment we catch a glimpse of Marlboro rugged boots. Mind you, the violence is stylized to the bespeak of beingness unbelievable. For example, Marlboro receives two gunshot wounds and a knife slashing, but none of these impair his power to fight. Simon Wincer doesn't permit "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Human" wear out its welcome at 98 nimble minutes. The opening credits scene with Bon Jovi'due south stone tune "Wanted Expressionless or Live" is both soulful and evocative. Don Johnson looks cool in his white Stetson and blueish denim cowboy outfit, and he steals the show from Rourke's biker. Indeed, that is Daniel Baldwin as Alexander, the impassive leader of Wilder's posse. He lets his bullets practice his talking for him. In that location is some nudity and lots of profanity. If y'all enjoy actioneers with large, assuming shoot'em up scenes, slimy villains, and virtuous heroes, "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro" will exist a treat.
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Butch Davidson and the Marlboro Kid...
A couple of like shooting fish in a barrel-going buddies behave out a robbery. They utilise as well much explosive when carrying it out, simply they become away with the boodle unscathed. Before long after, though, they find they're being relentlessly hunted down by those they have stolen from and go to always further lengths to evade capture, even jumping from a ridiculous height into a body of water… Nope, we're not talking Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, we're talking Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Homo, the palest of imitations.
Actually, that'southward not quite true: this motion-picture show is more of a rip-off than an imitation. While it's obviously non meant to be taken too seriously, it departs and then far from the real world every bit to be unrecognisable to well-nigh people. Harley and Marlboro (let'south call them Bike and Fag for short) determine the only style their friend tin can afford the exorbitant hire on his bar is by robbing a depository financial institution. Presumably a certain corporeality of planning went into this heist just we, the audience, are privy too none of it. Having successfully diverted an armoured auto (manned by the earth's two worst security guards), our heroes are in the midst of transferring their loot when a car filled with serious looking dudes in total-length Kevlar suits and automobile-guns turns up. It's these men – not the police, who are nowhere to be seen throughout the motion picture – who track our boys down for the remainder of the movie. Actually what I wrote about the lack of law in the film isn't quite true - at that place'due south some love interest for Fag in the shapely course of a policewoman (instead of a teacher), who is getting a little tired of his wandering ways, which was presumably an attempt on the part of the writers to inject a lilliputian pathos into the proceedings.
I felt quite pitiful for Mickey Rourke (Bike) and Don Johnson (Fag) here. They're the best things about the movie – which admittedly isn't saying much – and they try really difficult to generate some of that Newman-Redford chemistry, merely, with lines such as, 'Better to be expressionless 'n' cool than alive 'n' uncool,' to speak they merely don't have a run a risk. Take my advice: if you lot're in the mood for a buddy moving picture stay well articulate of this mess – get and run across the original Butch and Sundance – or fifty-fifty Turner and Hooch for that matter
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under-rated
Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and Marlboro (Don Johnson) forth with their pals Jimmy, Jose and Jack Daniels rob a bank transport carrying two and a half 1000000 dollars to save the local bar they frequent from endmost down. Turn out they picked the incorrect transport and snagged drugs instead then at present Take a chance (Tom Sizemore) sends his henchmen, including Daniel Baldwin after them. This is a vastly under-rated moving picture, lambasted by critics when it was first was released unfairly. Mickey Rourke, just like he would over a decade later in "Sin City" OWNS this picture show.
My Grade: B
Eye Candy: Chelsia Fields shows ass; Mitzi Martin and Bobbie Tyler bear witness breasts and buns
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The damn thing'due south oddly engrossing.
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Don Johnson steals this motion picture. I suspect one can use that statement every bit a barometer for gauging their interest in this item film (no disrespect intended, Mr. Johnson).
Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson star as the titular characters, respectively. When their favorite bar comes under threat of foreclosure, the ii cowboys hatch a scheme to rob the banking concern for the $two.v meg needed for the charter renewal. But instead of money, the truck is conveying Crystal Dream - a high-say-so drug of the future. Harley and Marlboro come across more trouble when the owner of the banking concern (bad-guy-for-hire Tom Sizemore) sends gunmen (led by the bored Daniel Baldwin) to recover his stolen drugs.
Substantially a modern re-telling of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" takes place (primarily) in a not-as well-distant future Los Angeles (5 years, to be exact), where hit men clothing Kevlar trenchcoats, cars accept barcode license plates, and the metropolis of Burbank is an international drome.
The moving picture has the look and feel of your average early '90s activity movie, although said activity gain in fits and starts. And it doesn't aid matters that the villains don't seem very threatening. I remember this is where the film suffers well-nigh from a lackluster script. Tom Sizemore is fantastic at playing annoyed, but doesn't go whatsoever further than that. And Daniel Baldwin is only a stalking robot with a big gun, simply his glassy-eyed stare gives the impression that he'd rather be somewhere else.
Mickey Rourke has the aforementioned problem. It's my understanding that Rourke took the role for the money (and at present regrets that conclusion) ... and it shows. Rourke'southward just going through the motions hither. Any camaraderie that the lead characters are supposed to have suffers for this reason. Don Johnson's the only one having whatsoever fun here. He's the mannerly of the two, invests some energy into his grapheme and he tends to steal every one of his scenes because of it. Indeed, Johnson ends up looking similar the but 1 who cares about what is otherwise but a "paycheck motion picture".
Nevertheless, the film retains a certain watchability. I still can't put my finger on why, merely for a picture that, on its surface, seems like a disposable affair, I still wouldn't listen sitting through information technology again.
Mostly for Don Johnson.
6.5/10
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Wanted Dead or Alive
Recently my boyfriend has been trying to stump me with movies, since I've seen and so many, he wanted to know at that place was at least one flick that I'd never seen merely he did. He finally got me with 1: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. I had never heard about it, but he told me that Mickey Rourke was in it; I got excited because I loved Mickey in 9 1/2 Weeks and was hoping for the same kind of performance in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Now the funny thing is that I made my boyfriend watch 9 1/ii Weeks with the smooth operator Mickey and I watched Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man scary motorcycle Mickey. But onto the movie and wither information technology was good or not. At present actually, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man wasn't at all a bad picture, it'southward better than near I would say. Information technology's actually a cool action film and has a decent story despite it's unusual title.
Harley Davidson and Marlboro are buddies way dorsum, together they ride their motorcycles on a intendance gratuitous life. But when they go back to the bar that they beloved and so much, they find out that a bank is about to replace it unless the owner, Jimmy, comes up with two and a half million dollars to cover the toll. Harley and Marlboro decide to rob the very bank that is taking the bar away with some of their friends, they recall they got away with it when they do, but it turns out that the truck they stole that they thought had the money has drugs instead. So they make a deal with the evil guy from the bank and become the coin for the drugs; they merely did one affair incorrect, they trust the evil super duper bad guy too well.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is good cheesy fun that was kinda fun to lookout, sometimes you demand the typical and predictable activeness movie that simply has the corking heady scenes to make you at least be entertained. Both Mickey and Jon seemed to accept a lot of fun together and I would say clicked very well. I loved how Marlboro was trying to teach Harley how to shoot his gun, and well, it comes in handy at the cease to actually brand for some night comedy jokes, but I'k non going to tell you what happens. I think I would recommend Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Human being for those who just desire entertainment, information technology'southward a fun action movie.
5/10
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Merely appalling - merely in a proficient way.
"Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" is total crap at its best (or worst). This picture is garbage – excessive and stupid. Information technology's besides extremely homoerotic, packed to the gills with fetishistic male machismo, sweaty muscular men, and Don Johnson constantly wearing an open shirt. (By the manner, he'southward nicknamed Cowboy. Hmm.)
In the opening sequence, Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) is cruising along on his cycle. He stops for gas, and when he enters the station, there's a hold-up going on. He strides up to the forepart and asks for ten bucks' worth of gas. The robber shouts something at Rourke to the outcome of, "Yous idiot, I'll kill you!" Rourke keeps his cool, whips the gun out of the dude'south manus and smashes his confront in.
The other robber, a pocketknife-wielding weirdo straight out of a Joel Schumacher motion picture, screams: "I'm gonna cut yous long, hard and deep!" At present, is this what one heterosexual male would say to some other man? No manner. Need I mention he takes a swipe at Rourke like a pansy? The picture is ane of those cool, brilliant, eccentric belatedly '80s/early '90s hybrids, where the neon glow of the past decade carried on into the hard, visceral dimension of 1990s cinema – resulting in, for lack of a better word, schlock. During the aforementioned holdup, the camera pans down to the hostages of the store – ii black guys, both looking very stereotypical, and one looking a fleck like Steve Urkel (consummate with the glasses). Information technology's just awful, atrocious stuff; and the vibrant colors of the clothing, backgrounds and foregrounds are dizzying and nausea-inducing.
The dialogue is atrocious. Example:
Harley: Where are you headed?
Cute Hitchhiker: Nowhere in particular.
Harley: Well, let me take you at that place.
Information technology's spoken so poorly, it becomes the punch line of an unintentional joke. Avoid this motion picture at all costs; unless you enjoy movies that are so bad they're good. In that regard, "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" is a classic. Graded as a regular movie, information technology's consummate garbage.
P.S. I'm a huge fan of Mickey Rourke so I secretly think this movie rules to a degree of coolness considering he's such a bad@$$ in it. But it's still stupid and insulting.
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"It's a adept day for dying".
Who was the Einstein to put Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson together, because their amusing combination was a blast as the two novelty title characters … just as for the feature itself it was a very lukewarm conventional buddy action one-act with a modern western bear on to information technology all. From guys having a good time, organising a heist that goes wrong (not coin, but drugs… whoops) and then finding them on the run for information technology. Having strong protagonists is one thing (though you could say Rourke and Johnson practise feel like they were on cruise command), but they do carry this one forth, where as having weak villains is downright criminal. A less than imposing Tom Sizemore is wasted, despite beingness the main corporate villain oozing with conviction, while Daniel Baldwin only lacked any sort of dial even though looking the part decked in black leather as a henchman. Fifty-fifty the bit players come up and become with little to no touch on. Julius Harris adds some course, while there'southward amusing playful parts for Big John Studd and Giancarlo Esposito. So the likes of Chelsea Field, Vanessa Williams, Tia Carrere and Robert Ginty's characters felt similar secondary inclusions to add something ala filler, which probably could have been scrapped from its swollen script. Director Simon Wincer gives it slick technical treatment (crafty cinematography) and aplomb in it'south vigorously over exaggerated action set up-pieces and stunt-work, simply its liveliness couldn't hide its generic score, banal story structure and dizzy plotting. A mindless popcorn action romp with its two stars having a ball.
"It's ameliorate to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool".
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Driving and Smoking just don't Mix
**SPOILERS** With a title like "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" you would expect a 90 minute commercial. That's exactly what the makers of the motion picture idea you would past having a disclaimer before the film even started saying that none of the products, and there are dozens of them, in the film are endorsements by the film company. You lot tin at present jiff a sigh of relief and sit back and enjoy the show knowing information technology'south commercial free.
For some reason the 1991 motion-picture show starts on July 4, 1996, 5 years into the hereafter, as Harley, Mickey Rourke, leaves his home in Texas and drives on his Harley to Fifty.A to encounter his long-time friend The bronco busting Marlboro Homo,Don Johnson, who's hustling for easy money at LA pool halls. Most getting his brains beat in by this six foot six Indian who he just hustled out of $500.00 Harley come to his rescue with the friendly and neighborhood pool hall being turned into a combat zone. Harley himself ran into a little activeness earlier in the picture by breaking up a gas station robbery where the grateful attendant offered him a gratis fill upwardly which, even though he was short on cash, Harley refused.
The flick gets down to he nitty-gritty when the two walking billboards evidence upwardly at their old stomping ground The Stone & Scroll Bar & Grill run by old man Julius, Julius Harris, a life-long friend of the two who'south is about to have his identify close down and demolished. Julius signed a 30 twelvemonth lease in June 1966 for $350.00 a calendar month that ends in five days with the rent going upward, O' the Hmanity, to an insane and unreachable $41,666.67 a month!
Harley & The Marlboro Homo coming to the decision that the only manner to get the greenbacks, a absurd two.5 million to save the bar and grill,is to rob the bank who owns the property. THat leads to a deadly shootout with a grouping of depository financial institution security men headed by zonked-out and zombie-looking Alexander, Daniel Baldwin, wearing bullet-proof overcoats.
The movie gets even better, or worse, when it turns out that the money that Harley and the Marlboro Human though that they took from the banking concern armored car was the deadly drug Crystal Dream! Like the banking company president Chance Wilden, Tom Sizemore,told Harley & Marlboro Human at the end of the movie: "I brand $500,000.00 a year as a banker but fifteen million as a drug dealer".
"Harley Davison and the Marlboro Man" limps along with the two anti-heroes existence chased with a underground transmitter, planted in a silver dollar, exposing where they are, all over the south by Alexander and his band of black overcoat assassins. It's then the 2 end upward in a shootout at an old airplane graveyard. Harley and the Marlboro man finally figured out to aim for the heads of the bank security men instead of their bodies, that were protected by their bullet-proof Japanese Kevlar overcoats, and put Alexander and his band away. This after the Marlboro Man ends up badly wounded.
Big confrontation with bank president Wilder and his sexy secretary Kimiko,Tia Carrere,in his L.A office With an armed helicopter airplane pilot friend of Harley and the Marlboro Human getting the drop on Wilder almost blasting him, and his back-clothed security goons, out of the edifice. This then pb to a cliff hanging slug fest between Wilder and the Marlboro Man. With Wilder hanging on for love life he before long brutal some xxx stories to his death when the Marlboro Man's torn and scotch-taped kicking, that Wilder was property on to, gave way.
With their adventures, and the movie, just near over the Marlboro Man goes dorsum to his first love, riding wild bulls at the local rodeo. Harley takes off dorsum home for Texas with a beautiful hitch-hiker on the dorsum seat of his Harley.
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This is a very fun improver to the activity genre.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) is a picture show I recently watched for the start fourth dimension in a long fourth dimension on HBOMAX. The storyline follows 2 friends whose favorite bar is about to close. They decide the best fashion to stop this dilemma is to rob an armored truck...simply they detect what'due south on the truck is a lot more valuable and dangerous than coin.
This flick is directed past Simon Wincer (The Phantom) and stars Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Don Johnson (Miami Vice), Tom Sizemore (Heat), Daniel Baldwin (Grimm), Vanessa Williams (Eraser), Tia Carrere (Wayne'south Globe), Kelly Hu (The Scorpion Rex) and Branscombe Richmond (Hard to Impale).
This is a very fun addition to the action genre. The soundtrack, cast, settings, attire and circumstances are all fun. Sizemore and Baldwin were groovy villains. The activity scenes are pretty good and I thoroughly enjoyed the motorbike chase through the mall. The final shootout in the airplane graveyard was cool too. The strippers were too A+ in this.
Overall this was an above average addition to the activity genre that is worth a viewing. I would strongly recommend this to fans of the action genre and would score this a 7/10.
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The Western Narrative volition never die
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This is 1 of those movies that I fondly remember from my younger years, and while back then I simply watched it as a typical action movie, I come dorsum to it now to encounter that it is a movie that brings out the essence of American civilization, peculiarly culture out in the west. This movie, while set in the nearly future (when it was released), follows the style of a classic western movie. It is well-nigh a couple of drifters, cowboys, Harley Davidson, the new style of cowboy riding his Harley and wearing his leather jacket, and the Malboro Man, a classic cowboy with his boots and his lid.
The narrative of this film is similar to the old style westerns, but in many ways goes to testify that nothing has changed and naught will change. We encounter that despite progress (the world now flies into and out of Burbank Aerodrome) the west is yet lawless and has still been left behind. Chance Wilder, the antagonist of the piece, merely earns $500,000 a year equally the head of the bank (well-nigh likely the Los Angeles branch), and has to supplement his income in other ways.
The west is all the same lawless, and while the constabulary to appear, they tend to take a back seat. Virginia Slim (a type of cigarette) is Malboro's girl, and while she works for the law, she has no idea about what is going on, nor does her partner. Instead, it is yet the law of the gun, equally can be seen by the thugs that carry out Wilder'southward dirty work.
The cowboy nevertheless drifts, as we see Harley globe-trotting from e to become out west, though not to brand his fortune, and so drifts back east at the end of the picture. Still the east and due west division betwixt culture and barbarity is still evident equally they jump on a railroad train back east when things get too hot, though returns to the west to end off the unfinished business.
In essence this movie is about the American culture, the main characters representing the motor bicycle and the cigarette, with Virginia Slim beingness the feminine Marlboro. Throw in Jack Daniels, the the big guy who is representative of tough, but ugly guy that you lot don't desire to upset. It is all about taming that which is wild. The cowboy rides the bull, which is in essence the duty and nature of the cowboy, to go into the wilderness and bring civilisation there. Withal this is also axiomatic when we run across the woman on the bike in the bar, in the same mode the cowboy is taming the wild creature. I estimate this demonstrates the American Narrative, that in ane sense, looking from the east, the west is even so a wild and untame identify, but even now that the West has been won, at that place is always new horizons and new frontiers that need to be tamed.
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A gross insult to motorcycles and cigarettes
Non one line of dialogue, non 1 frame of film, aught almost this piece of crap was entertaining. Don Johnson should exist ashamed, Mickey Rourke probably said, "some other lousy acting functioning, nothing new for me." The action scenes were pitifully gear up looking; a 5 year old couldn't get excited over this boring humdrum silliness. Later on elimination a trash tin full of banana magazines at the two "heroes", ane would think professional person hitmen could put at least one round where they wanted it. Accented trash - 0 out of 10.
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" I think I killed him using twelve dollars worth of bullets "
Information technology's not too far from anyone's life to believe at that place are friends, . . . and and so there are Friends. This film illustrates the ladder. Two men, Harley Davidson and his partner the Marlboro Human, (Mickey Rourke & Don Johnson) reunite afterward a couple of twelvemonth absenteeism and observe their old life time mentor, (Julius Harris) is beingness evicted from a special nightclub. The club and its location has remained in the owner's easily for over 30 years. Therefore, unless, he can raise a couple of million dollars, he must vacate the property. With the help of other nightclub friends, they make up one's mind to raise the needed money by robbing the very bank which holds the mortgage. The depository financial institution chore proves easy, however instead of banking company money, the robbers learn they have stolen two million dollars of the latest, specialized but illegal drugs. The banking concern president assigns a special hit squad, led by 'Alexander' (Daniel Baldwin) to recover the drugs and dispose of the thieves. The picture show is very fast paced and at that place is no shortage of activeness, confrontation and physical violence. For anyone seeking a good old manner, shoot-em-upwards gangster film, y'all are invited to this one.
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Some expert moments, but I didn't like it that much, also violent
A man who rides a motorcycle and calls himself Harley Davidson and a man who smokes and calls himself Marlboro Man make it a lot of trouble when they try to save their favorite hangout in Burbank by robbing an armored car (the new lease volition cost millions of dollars). I didn't see that much to like before the robbery, and while things looked promising after the robbery, the picture never really went anywhere.
There was plainly a lot of bad linguistic communication before editing, and way too much violence for my taste. Although if you similar seeing machine guns fired over and over and the damage that they do, along with the killing, maybe there is something for yous here. I sort of liked Don Johnson as Marlboro Human being, and there was enough one-act to keep this from being a total bomb, but it wasn't for me.
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Soundtrack!!!
The Wrestler'due south jacket. Sonny Crockett'south hat. A crystal dream. Pool hustling. A barroom brawl. Bravado off some steam. Wise advice from your old man. Learning how to shoot by reading a book. A swan swoop into a pool. A cool mute bartender. Gus before Los Pollos Hermanos. Large John Studd is a stud. A erstwhile Miss America sings. A badass helicopter. Goons with bulletproof turtleneck jackets. A shootout with a Baldwin brother. Tom Sizemore earlier the cleft. An opening featuring boobs, Mickey on a Harley and Wanted Expressionless or Alive playing in the background. A fun ride best enjoyed with a smoke.
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Bikers With Hearts Of Gold
Ii biking buddies team upwards to aid a friend save his L.A. nightclub from an evil banker who wants to replace the beloved bar with an impersonal loftier-rise. The ensuing plot has the two bikers repeatedly confronting the broker's cold blooded, robotic henchmen, who make quite a way statement with their slicked-back pilus, their blank faces, and their irritatingly hip, long black coats. The numerous confrontations betwixt the two bikers and the thugs culminate in explosions, fights, and gunfire.
The story is standard Hollywood fluff, aimed at kids, young boys in particular. Except for the unique "airplane graveyard" setting, the plot is more often than not a dud. Fortunately, the characterizations of the two leads rescue the film from boiler.
Harley (Mickey Rourke) and Marlboro (Don Johnson), swagger, posture, and strut their macho stuff, as y'all would await, for two bikers. They swear. They fight. And, of grade, they follow the babes. Underneath the public toughness, notwithstanding, are two nonconformists, and each has his ain brand of insecurity. And, they take a conscience. They want to do the correct thing. It is this textured characterization of Harley and Marlboro that makes the moving picture worth watching, especially in the offset twenty-five minutes, before the activity plot interferes.
The is a working homo's movie ... with all the gritty realism of urban street life. The film's first half features some good cinematography, sultry music and atmosphere, great production design, and costumes suitable for the most hip biker bar. The best approach to this film is to ignore the silly action plot, and focus instead on Harley and Marlboro, and their unorthodox outlook on life.
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They don't make em similar this anymore
There are some movies that perfectly encapsulate the late 80'due south, early xc's epitome of trash handbag, chromed up, machismo soaked, violently silly over the top theme park ride vibe of the activity genre at that time. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a perfect example of that. It's a down and dirty sleazeball flick that is just and then fun. Mickey Rourke plays Harley, a biker cowboy on a steel horse who makes his fashion back to a slightly futuristic LA to reconnect with his old barfly friends, including the rodeo riding Marlboro Man (Don Johnson). Rourke claims he simply did this one for the dough, just I call bullshit. He has such a ball with his leathery tan, cocky prick mental attitude and spiked hair it's incommunicable he wasn't invested, even in a purely camp grade. Don Johnson is slick and deadly every bit his trigger happy buddy Marlboro. Between quips, fist and gunfights, smoking and boozing, they try to verbal revenge on the tyrannical big city broker (Tom Sizemore) who laid waste to their friends inner city bar. Sizemore is no stranger to dangerous, mean spirited roles, and he plays the megalomaniac financier with a razor sharp, homicidal calm that's giddily entertaining. A young Tia Carrere shows up as his sultry assistant, too as work from Daniel Baldwin, Kelly Hu, Vanessa Angel and Chelsea Field. It's no smart action flick, but it'due south a brutal, tongue in cheek mod western with dusty, cleaved glass and whiskey soaked mode that will entertain anyone who has nostalgia for that era of action movies.
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Rourke'due south but action one-act
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HARLEY … is a quite funny and affable spoof, extremely likable, and it has a rare (in today'southward movies) quality—that of being very enjoyable, a potent amusement. Rourke lamented often his presence in HARLEY … (he stated how ashamed he was of this role each fourth dimension he had the opportunity—he would improve have complained more about Wild Orchid, White Sands,The Concluding Outlaw and other such crap instead …),merely this is unfair, since he made much worse career choices since. HARLEY … has a squeamish premise—a tandem of goofy picaresque travelers who embark on a grim hazard because their sense of honour asks them to .The most important affair brought by this spoof is the proof of Rourke's talent as a comedy player; he proves to be much finer than one could have suspected. He was parodying his own bad boy tough biker persona as popularized by the tabloids. Without him in 1 of the ii chief roles, HDAMM would have been crap.
As a goofy comedy, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Homo (1991) is absolutely delicious; this could have been a good concept for a TV serial about a tandem of bums who ….HARLEY … is nothing for Mickey to be ashamed virtually ….He did far worse movies.
It came the next year after the severely, drearily underrated Desperate Hours (1990). Rourke downplayed his function in a comedy, but HARLEY … is many times better than Wild Orchid (1990), White Sands (1992) and Fall Fourth dimension (1995),not to mention things such as Double Team (1997), Dearest in Paris (1997), Betoken Blank (1997), Out in 50 (1999) and Picture Claire (2001) and so many others—these, and non HARLEY …,are the films to exist aback of. As a comic books action comedy, HARLEY … is manner better than the hideous, charm—less SIN Urban center. HARLEY …is to Rourke'southward career what Beat the Devil is to Bogart'southward career (all proportions considered, since the Rourke comedy was not directed by a Huston, but by a much humbler managing director instead).
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) is the 2d Rourke film I accept seen; I was 15 yrs..I have re—seen this movie many times since. A severe _cinephile that I take watched HARLEY … with enjoyed it also, as an unpretentious, funny, youthful comedy of delightful gusto. Hither Rourke laid aside his 'posters' persona', and took a funny and likable, cordial function. This should have been awarded, and not blamed. The action in HARLEY … has no interest in itself any, it is merely a pretext for a double recital—Rourke and his colleague. I recall HARLEY … is a cool comedy, what could have been a small funny interlude in Rourke'due south career (but proved be merely the preface to an awful fall that he has never recovered from since).
Even so, if it's funny, HARLEY … is no less 2d—rate. With the '84 exception, Rourke was never granted a kickoff—hand comedy, something that would deserve and fit him as. Hither, he is fairly above his textile. He towers it. He knew how to exist funny in a cordial fashion, without debasing himself. His role is well structured with that thorough professionalism Rourke brings to his movies.
Here Rourke was not fierce, sadist, crazy, furious, psychopath, sociopath, etc., only a funny, dynamic bum, in a comic books world with two dimensions. It is too bad he was not allowed to explore this comic aptitude of his (while he was still young and beautiful). He proved to have, surprisingly, the modesty required for such a comedy role. Near of the greatest actors are very skilful in comedies—Gabin was ,and Brando, and Newman, and Bogart, and Gable, Mastroianni, Fresnay, Belmondo, Jouvet, of course Welles ….Previously, Rourke already had allowed brief glimpses of his comic gusto—in Ix i/2 Weeks (1986),in Barfly (1987);and in that location was,of course,his '84 cult comedy, his _cultest picture,if I may term it like that ….He had panache, charm, enough instinctive finesse, much brio, a luminous intelligence. Yet, he was non offered much in the surface area of the one-act as a genre, in the Hollywoodian labeling system (I wish he would have accepted the lead in BH COP …--still, when I did mention this, in one case, to a young woman, she answered—'He could not be a clown').I do non know if he would have fabricated better things than Willis in the comedy; nevertheless, it was worth a try ….
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This Trashy Action-Adventure is Entertaining and Underrated.
hu675 11 Nov 2005
Harley (Mickey Rourke) is a ex-druggie riding motorcycle human being, who comes to L.A. to visit his long time cowboy buddy (Don Johnson). When Harley decide to help his buddies to save their landmark bar. Harley and his friends decides to rob an armor bank truck, which they succeed. Simply unfortunately, they accidentally stolen drug titled "Crystal Dream", which this drug is killing addicts by the thousand. The Vice President of the Bank/Drug Dealer (Tom Sizemore) decides to accept back, what'due south his and the Heroes go to state of war with the pushers.
Directed by Simon Wincer (D.A.R.Y.50., Gratis Willy, Performance Dumbo Drop) fabricated an entertaining, trashy activity motion picture with an nice sense of sense of humor. This picture show was an major box role disappointment back in the summer of 1991. This moving picture has become an cult classic. Rourke and Johnson gives agreeable performances.
DVD has an fine anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an good-Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound. DVD only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This Mail service-Futuristic action film is fun and a treat for fans of the 2 leads. Written by Don Michael Paul, who wrote the equally trashy action-thriller "Half Past Expressionless". (****/*****).
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Bar brawls, depository financial institution robbers, motorcycles, cowboys, big boobs, and a pack of cigarettes: the "man's man" movie.
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Harley Davidson and the Malboro Man had the potential to be a pretty decent "Human being'due south Human" movie, just it took too long to get started. Then, once it did go good, and the story got interesting, it fails at well-nigh the indicate our heroes and their relentless nemeses decided to exist too invincible.
Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and the Malboro Man (Don Johnson, hubba! hubba!) are the subject of our story equally ii loner heroes. Their "rugged terrain" in their Texas town, one that motorcycle riders and cowboys honey--dirt roads, dust, etc--is being overrun by skyscrapers. Amidst their routine bar ball and pool hustling, they learn that their shut friend's bar, the 'Rock N' Roll Bar', is facing a tough fiscal crises because, with all the evolution in town, rents are on the ascent. The bar owner'due south five year lease is now $2.5 million, and without it, his landlord is threatening to shut him down.
So, Harley Davidson gets the bonehead idea that he and his buddies, including Malboro Man should rob the bank. Only, what they steal turns out to be blue bricks of "Crystal Dream." The bank CEO (I estimate that's what he is), played past Tom Seizemore, orders his iii invincible goons in bulletproof Matrix-similar trench coats to become dorsum their stash--no thing what. Harley Davidson and Malboro Man recall they're just going to hold the junk ransom and order that the bank goons pay $2.5 one thousand thousand and that will be the finish of information technology. No fashion.
****SPOILERS Across**** There's too many far-fetched action sequences that for me, ruined the makings of a pretty decent action flick. For instance, when Harley and Malboro stow abroad on a airplane to Las Vegas, their trench glaze-wearing nemeses still magically find them. Even know the hotel where they're staying and what flooring they're on. So, Harley and Malboro, having to run for cover on the roof, determine that it would be a practiced idea to jump off the hotel into a swimming pool. Jumping from that height into a pool of water would be the equivalent of jumping onto concrete. They would take never survived the fall.
Harley Davidson and Malboro Man (except for the very finish for Malboro Human) never e'er get shot despite the fusillade of gunfire they always manage to pace into. The villains e'er behave around something like Uzi'due south and the heroes carry around plain old handguns. Merely they never get striking.
There'due south that part in the airport graveyard where, fifty-fifty though one of the guys is wearing the bulletproof trench coat, and Harley and Malboro know they have to shoot him in the head, they still pierce his breast with bullets despite the trench glaze.
The end is even more than ridiculous as Tom Seizemore is hanging out of the window past the heel of his shoe.
I was just starting to savor the picture show before all of that happened. Simply, that's basically what you're in for. So, if y'all like a movie with bar brawls, pool hustlers, boobs, motorcylces, and shoot outs, and can still take fun with information technology, despite all of those incredulous flaws, then this movie is probably good for you. I thought it was simply one-half good.
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viii/x
Loved this little activeness/criminal offence pic. Harley and Marlboro were a great matchup.
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Truly, a classic Entertaining throughout ( A+ Movie) My Ratings ten/10
A Elementary, Fun Highwayman chance that rolls equally well as the wheels of a motorbike.,it's simply an enjoyment because of it's western elements and cause it has assassins and motorbikes and all the explosive elements fun to watch without ever condign serious. The interim is emotionless, only the characters are badass enough for you to overlook it. Plus the intro sequence where Mickey Rourke is riding while "Wanted Dead or Alive" plays was an awesome setup.
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