Tango and Cash

Movie
German title	Tango and Cash
Original title	Tango & Cash
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1989
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Andrei Konchalovsky
script	Randy Feldman
production	Peter Guber ; Peter MacDonald ; Jon Peters
music	Harold Faltermeyer
camera	Donald E. Thorin
cut	Hubert C. de la Bouillerie ; Robert A. Ferretti
occupation
	Sylvester Stallone : Raymond "Ray" Tango; Kurt Russell : Gabriel "Gabe" Cash; Teri Hatcher : Katherine "Kiki" Tango; Jack Palance : Yves Perret; Brion James : Requin; James Hong : Quan; Marc Alaimo : Lopez; Geoffrey Lewis : Captain Schroeder; Robert Z'Dar : "The Jaw" / Face; Clint Howard : "Slinky" (Tango's cell neighbor); Michael Jeter : Skinner; Michael J. Pollard : Owen; Glenn Morshower : Police officer at headquarters; Lewis Arquette : Federal Agent Wyler; Roy Brocksmith : Federal Agent Davis; Richard Fancy : Nolan (Tango & Cashs lawyer);

Tango & Cash (AKA Tango & Cash ) is a US action - comedy from the year 1989 . It was directed by Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky and written by Randy Feldman . Sylvester Stallone , Kurt Russell and Teri Hatcher can be seen in the leading roles .

The film premiered in the United States on December 22, 1989 and was first seen in Germany on March 29, 1990.

action

Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash both work as policemen in the drug division of the Los Angeles Police Department, are professionally very successful and have turned the drug lord and arms dealer Yves Perret against them with their latest search successes. Otherwise the two have little in common. While Tango is cultivated, prefers suits as clothing and is a reader of the Wall Street Journal , Cash corresponds more to the type of the brash and proletarian daredevil.

Perret has lost almost 100 million US dollars due to the attacks by the two police officers, who always operate separately and alone , which is why he wants to get them out of the way. However, since he fears that an assassination attempt will make the two well-known policemen martyrs , he plans an intrigue and lures them both into an abandoned department store, where he has the body of a bugged policeman placed next to a gun from Cash. The two investigators have barely entered the bogus crime scene than the police officers informed by Perret gain access.

In an urgent procedure, Tango and Cash are sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for manslaughter on the basis of a forged tape and brought together to a prison. Perret tries to have the other inmates kill the two policemen in prison, but Tango and Cash are able to defend themselves. In order to hold the masterminds, to whom they owe their imprisonment, to account, the two break out of prison by crossing the prison wall with the help of their belts hanging on the high-voltage lines.

After the outbreak, both go into hiding (Cash, among others, at Tango's sister Katherine, known as "Kiki") and begin investigating separately. It turns out that Perret bribed some FBI officers to fake the guilt of the two cops. In the end, the exonerating tape of the responsible corrupt sound engineer falls into both hands. Perret then plays his last trump card and kidnaps Kiki, hoping to lure Tango and Cash to him. They equip themselves with weapons from the police depot and, after an exchange of fire with Perret's people, arrive in an excavation pit in his headquarters, which is located in the center of the site. Before the building self-destructs detonates, both Perret and his henchmen kill and free Kiki.

Cash ultimately says he can imagine going out with Katherine. Tango spontaneously acknowledged this with the words "only over my corpse", to which Gabriel replied that the "suggestion" was "acceptable". Then Katherine says Tango and Cash are a good team.

Reviews

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post on December 22, 1989 that the film was not even a "bad copy" of Lethal Weapon - Two hardened professionals . The script described them as "immature", Russell was a "harmless" Mel Gibson , Stallone took himself too seriously and therefore appeared "unsympathetic".

Michael Wilmington, on the other hand, described Stallone's performance in the Los Angeles Times on December 22, 1989 as "lively" and "lovable", he was "funnier" and "more ironic" than in previous roles. Russell is a "good contrast figure". However, the film itself is "a waste of talent and energy".

The lexicon of the international film summed up: "Fast-paced action cinema with questionable propagation of manliness mania, occasional touches of comedy and a shallow good-bad ideology that slips into a pyrotechnic spectacle towards the end."

Frank Ehrlacher reads on Moviemaster : “The story promises good action and the director Andrej Konchalowskij - but the film only delivers that to a limited extent. Too much is predictable, too much happens in tried and tested "buddy" knitting patterns and the suit makes Sylvester Stallone look unusually cramped - perhaps the two protagonists should have simply swapped roles, Kurt Russell would have been relieved of this part sooner. "

A critic's review on Kino.de said: “Police action tour by Guber / Peters (“ Batman ”), staged by Andrei Konchalowsky (“ Runaway Train ”). Sylvester Stallone (as a cashmere cop) and Kurt Russell (as a kind of Schimanski in a kamikaze mood) play rival colleagues who become friends. [...] Despite some dramaturgical weaknesses, the fast-paced and at times spectacular design in connection with the really big names of the two main actors and the planned promotional support will guarantee a blockbuster success on video. "

background

The film was shot in the period from June 12, 1989 to October 20, 1989 in Irwindale and the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield . It was created with an estimated budget of 55 million US dollars , which was originally scheduled budget by 20 million US dollars has been exceeded. The film grossed over $ 63 million at the box office in the United States alone and a further $ 30 million in film rentals . The German cinema operators counted around 1.2 million visitors.
In the film, Sylvester Stallone, alias Raymond Tango, describes the film character Rambo as a "washcloth". This is interesting in that Sylvester Stallone played this character in three films up to then. In another scene, Tango is asked by Cash if he knows the burly prisoner and replies, "You were just great in Conan the Barbarian, " as a reference to his fellow actor Arnold Schwarzenegger .
Some film reviews compare the character of Cash with Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon .
The opening scene in which Stallone stops the truck and the two crooks fall through the windshield was taken from the Jackie Chan film Police Story .
During production, the film was called The Set Up . Originally, Patrick Swayze was slated for the role of Gabriel Cash. Sylvester Stallone fired Barry Sonnenfeld and the producer Jon Peters fired the director Andrei Konchalowski because he wanted to give the film a more serious tone than the producers wanted - Konchalowski explains in his memoir. Sylvester Stallone, on the other hand, describes Konchalovsky as the "voice of reason" on the set. Finally, film editor Stuart Baird was brought in to revise the rough cut and create the final cut.
An "UNCUT BOOTLEG" version has been released, in which the scene in which Tango & Cash are tortured with electricity in the water has been expanded a little. Tango says "son of a bitch" and it is cruelly portrayed how cash is electrified. This scene can only be seen unsynchronized.
Although Geoffrey Lewis plays a not inconsiderable supporting role as Captain Schroeder, he is not mentioned in the credits.
Philip Tan, who as a Chinese assassin initially clashed with cash, is a well-known and renowned stunt coordinator in Hollywood (among other things for the Pirates of the Caribbean , Hangover and Crank film series as well as Minority Report and Inception ).

Awards

Tango and Cash were nominated three times for the Golden Raspberry in 1990, including Sylvester Stallone for worst male leading role, Kurt Russell for worst supporting female role for his appearance in women's clothes, and Randy Feldman for worst screenplay, but did not win any of the awards.