SYNOPSIS

Red Heat. After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he’s matched up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is considerably more relaxed. Most of the humour revolves around Danko’s grumpy reaction to good ol’ American capitalism, while Ridzik urges him to chill out. Red Heat is not bad as action comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go. Incidentally, Red Heat was the first American film allowed to shoot in Moscow’s Red Square.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

January 13, 1989

DIRECTOR

Walter Hill

WRITER

Walter Hill (story), Harry Kleiner & Troy Kennedy-Martin (screenplay)

COMPANY

Columbia Pictures Corporation

GENRE

Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

CERT

18

RUNTIME

104 minutes

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