The hard way

Movie
German title	The hard way
Original title	The hard way
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1991
length	107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	John Badham
script	Lem Dobbs , ; Michael Kozoll , ; Daniel Pyne
production	Rob Cohen , ; William Sackheim
music	Arthur B. Rubinstein
camera	Donald McAlpine , ; Robert Primes
cut	Tony Lombardo , ; Frank Morriss
occupation
	Michael J. Fox : Nick Lang; James Woods : Detective Lt. John Moss ( NYPD ); Stephen Lang : "Party Crasher"; Annabella Sciorra : Susan; John Capodice : Detective Grainy (NYPD); Luis Guzmán : Detective Benny Pooley (NYPD); LL Cool J : Detective Billy (NYPD); Mary Mara : Detective China (NYPD); Delroy Lindo : Captain Brix (NYPD); Conrad Roberts : Witherspoon; Penny Marshall : Angie; Christina Ricci : Bonnie; George Cheung : drug dealer;

The Hard Way (Original title: The Hard Way ) is an American film comedy by John Badham from 1991. The film starred Michael J. Fox and James Woods .

action

Pampered actor Nick Lang is the action star of shallow Indiana Jones- style Hollywood adventure films . In order to be taken seriously as an actor, he applied for the lead role in the film Blood on the Asphalt , an authentic police thriller. Lang flies from California to New York City , where the police chief assures him that he will assign Lang to a real police officer.

He is assigned to the tough and cynical police officer John Moss, who is currently looking for a psychopathic serial killer, the party killer (in the original "Party Crasher" ). Moss is not at all enthusiastic about the annoying sissy Lang, especially not because he also moves in with him.

He tries to get rid of Lang with a ruse: by making him believe that he has shot an innocent person while chasing the party killer. He wants to take the blame generously. However, this is revealed when Lang does not want to leave the airport and returns to the presidium.

Parallel to the investigation, Moss is in love with the attractive Susan and tries to win her over. In this profession, womanizer Lang has the better cards and tries to help Moss with tips.

The party killer is now targeting Moss himself, because he provoked him in a television interview. He kidnaps Susan, Moss and Lang rescue her from Nick Lang's oversized face that is used for promotional purposes. The party killer falls down during a fight. Moss and Susan become a couple.

Finally, Lang returns to Hollywood, shoots the thriller and makes use of numerous sayings from Moss, which he perceives with indignation during the film premiere.

Reviews

"Undecided between harsh action scenes and brisk word skirmishes, a swaying crime comedy that unreflectively propagates vigilante justice in rude dialogues and only rudiments the genre."

- Lexicon of international film

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of March 8, 1991 that there was almost nothing in the film to remember - except for its comical energy, which reminded him of screwball comedies . He praised the script, the stunts, the special effects and awarded three and a half stars out of four.

Awards

One scene from the film was nominated for the 1992 MTV Movie Awards for Best Action Sequence .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Roger Ebert: The Hard Way Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) | Roger Ebert. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .

[1] Roger Ebert: The Hard Way Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) | Roger Ebert. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .