The Last Boy Scout stars Bruce Willis as Joe Hallenbeck, a former Secret Service agent turned Private Detective who ends up investigating the murder of an LA Stripper played by Halle Berry and who's partner is played by Damon Wayans, what the two will uncover is something much grubbier indeed.
Boy Scout is a real step down from Man from Hong Kong in terms of quality of entertainment, Willis though is on top form and delivers what I think is one of his best performances, the rest of the film however doesn't keep up with him, on the one hand it is one of the nastiest movies I've seen in a good long while with many scenes of coarse language, scenes of a young girl spewing F-Bombs and having guns flown in her face, women getting tortured and pumped full of bullets and so on, and I thought Robocop 2 was sadistic.
But not only is it nasty, the climax of the film is also extremely boring, where Willis and Wayans have to save the day, whoop de do, if you want to watch Bruce save the world or a whole bunch of people, go rent Die Hard and another thing, this movie was written by Shane Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and is to direct the next Iron Man film, but whereas Lethal Weapon was directed by Richard Donner, this was directed by Tony Scott, a less than impressive action director at the best of times.
In short, a nasty and boring action film that is only slightly redeemed by Willis, but even he can't save this from the not recommended pile, 1 out of 5.
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