The The Last Boy Scout



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The The Last Boy Scout
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A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Joe Hallenbeck is a burned-out detective. Jimmy Dix is an ex-LA Stallions player. Hallenbeck was hired to protect a stripper named Cory. Dix is Cory&#39;s boyfriend. When Cory is executed during a drive-by shooting, both Hallenbeck and Dix try to get to the bottom of the case.
The Last Boy Scout is without a doubt one of the greatest action movies ever made. There is nothing a good action film needs that isn&#39;t woven into Tony Scott&#39;s vision of Shane Black&#39;s screenplay. We have shootouts.... lots and lots of shootouts. We have Bruce Willis. We have football. We have some beautiful women at our disposal. There are some fast cars. There are drugs. And the profanity-laden dialog is so well-written that virtually the entire script can be read in the memorable quotes section of this site.<br/><br/>Our story, though completely preposterous, has some real depth. We have multi-dimensional characters and we are taken on quite a ride with them as the action unfolds. Bruce Willis plays a burned out private investigator who helps a disgraced former pro football player solve the murder of his girlfriend. Before our story ends, we have a dirty US senator, a greedy football team owner, and about a hundred seedy henchmen thrown into the mix. Things move so quickly that only towards the end does one of our characters actually speak a line that sums up how ridiculous it all is. Damon Wayans, who plays the former football star gives Willis some sobering insight. He points out that Willis must be one of the dumbest people alive. He is not only trying to save the life of the man who ruined his career, but also trying to avenge the death of the man who was f*#king his wife! But somehow, we the audience care about the outcome, and getting there couldn&#39;t be more fun.<br/><br/>The film has dated fairly well up to this point. Being as though it came out in 1991, you can still see a high top fade on a black character or two. The football uniforms have changed a little, too, but these are minor things that take nothing away from the enjoyment of the story. Water is still wet, the sky is still blue, and this is still one hell of a movie...and then some!!! This film scores a perfect 10 of 10 stars. It couldn&#39;t have been made any better.<br/><br/>So sayeth the Hound.
Let&#39;s make it clear, I love (Tony Scott)&#39;s piquant technique in making action movies with all the steamy atmosphere of bright red and blue cinematography &amp; wild editing, he masters that fiery image and rhythm in a way which you can call it lovely more than nasty violent, and here we got the opportunity to see him works with another brilliant : Mr. (Shane Black) or maybe his match but at the field of writing. Both of them got a lot of victories at the crazy action movies&#39; history in the 1980s and the 1990s ..And it&#39;s such a great list indeed : Scout&#39;s (Beverly Hills Cop II - 1987), (True Romance - 1993), so Black&#39;s (Lethal Weapon - 1987), (Last Action Hero - 1993), (The Long Kiss Goodnight - 1996). Now in (The Last Boy Scout) they&#39;re together for rare enjoyable time and made one hot movie.. Too bloody.. Too insane.. And too nice ! <br/><br/>There is that very strong connection between violence in movies and violence in factual life (The more in life makes the more in movies), moreover the theory about how the big fanciful violence is the best way to discharge the suppressing emotions inside all of us which get bigger and bigger every damn day whereas we couldn&#39;t give back the violence we take in such a materialistic world, so crazier the life.. crazier the action flicks. It&#39;s the secret of some things we may admire in front of a movie and refuse in the middle of the real life or maybe can&#39;t do in the first place ! <br/><br/>Here it&#39;s the perfect formula in the perfect shape already : your thirst to get revenge on the corrupted twisted politicians, the alteration from a loser to a hero only by insisting on doing the right thing as madly as the whole mistaken world around !, how to beat the powerful criminals by some wickedness, big mouth, and the scout&#39;s ethics whatever how many bad guy you would kill as long as all of them were bad guys !?, it&#39;s not morality inasmuch as the method of making this kind of movies.. It&#39;s not the logic of the real life inasmuch as the logic of modern Hollywood flicks ! And to tell you the truth, I loved it here very much especially when they did it all in a satirical, so comic and so vivid picture. Like a noir story of a (Dirty Harry) kind of detective meets the buddies&#39; merry mood of (Lethal Weapon) for the same creator. <br/><br/>For sure after watching I&#39;ve got a lot of good memories which could make it a classic of its kind : How a wounded husband who&#39;s a sly detective also can discover a man in his wife&#39;s bedroom, &quot;Give me the keys or I&#39;ll shoot the kid !&quot;, the car of the bad guys is flying over a pool, an astir horse in a ball game, (Willis) is dancing &quot;like a detective&quot; over the dead body of the killer, and who can forget the solo monologues of (Willis) which he used to delight us back in (Moonlighting)&#39;s charming days like : How fat your wife is ?, the puppet&#39;s twaddle, however vulgarly this time. It&#39;s all in all one of the most genius scripts and the most funny dialogues ever written for an action. <br/><br/>Over and above the magical present of (Willis) as well as his original wit. So (Danielle Harris) as his turbulent troubled daughter; she was very live &amp; talented too. Yes, (Damon Waynes) wasn&#39;t as flashy as (Willis) but he&#39;s here charismatic and clever in a way I didn&#39;t really see it again unless scarcely. <br/><br/>On the other hand, there were those irritating parts : too many killings, so the matter of &quot;Touch me again and I&#39;ll kill you !&quot;. Too many violence, so the close-ups of the gunshots in faces or hands. How to throw the ball hard to stop a bullet !, the bad guy is well &amp; healthy after a car crash, drowning in a pool, and maybe 70 bullets in his body !, not to mention an idiot evil mastermind who confesses all of his plans openly for the 2 main characters before the climax. Yet truly all of that are elements which materializing the classical case of those crazy movies (The undying prototype killer, the indifferent forever nuts hero, the absurd events, the sheer roughness, the loose swearing, the countless rescues in the nick of time, the happy endings) as who would care or whatsoever with more dead peoples and more big explosions ?, or even got the time or the desire to think about the story&#39;s holes !? Actually they&#39;ll be searching in the wrong place as it&#39;s the 1990s&#39; cinematic extravaganza out of pure action movie and in one of its finest conditions too. <br/><br/>..It&#39;s basically manufactured for silencing your brain a bit, so happy brainless time.. And I do mean it in a good way !
This is a movie for the boys who like watching men being real men - cursing, shooting and fighting - and anyone who likes this kind of wham-bam entertainment will certainly get more than their money's worth.
When Joe &amp; Jimmy take the bomb from the security detail&#39;s crashed car, they place it on the backseat of their car. Therefore, when the lieutenant opens the trunk of the car at the stadium and takes the case out, it has to be the money - we can only assume that Joe placed it there (offscreen) when he takes it from the car in the swimming pool. Presumably he either also grabs a spare magazine and reloads offscreen or Darien brings an extra box of bullets with her to Jimmy&#39;s car. Alternatively maybe the guy whose car he borrows has a spare box and or he salvages some from Milo&#39;s car.  a5c7b9f00b