Rotten
The filmic equivalent of a hate crime.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
The Last Boy Scout
Everyone had counted them out. But they're about to get back in the game.
1991 · 1h 45m · R
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Tony Scott
Overview
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.
Director and cast
- Tony Scott Director
- Bruce Willis as Joe Hallenbeck
- Damon Wayans as James Alexander 'Jimmy' Dix
- Chelsea Field as Sarah Hallenbeck
- Noble Willingham as Sheldon Marcone
- Halle Berry as Cory
- Danielle Harris as Darian Hallenbeck
- Bruce McGill as Mike Matthews
- Kim Coates as Chet
- Taylor Negron as Milo
- Badja Djola as Alley Thug
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
46%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Strictly for viewers who don't want surprises, just a laundry list of buddyisms.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
The movie has a lot of laughs, its action sequences are thrilling, its surprises are startling, and it shows a real ingenuity in the ways by which it gets Willis into, and out of, trouble.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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