Directed by Michael Lehmann
Written by Steven E de Souza and Daniel Waters
Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello sing 'Swinging on a Star"
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I guess you could call Hudson Hawk a guilty pleasure of mine. It's clearly an over-the-top and fairly terrible flick, but it has it's fun and has its charm.
Bruce Willis stars as the recently released from jail super thief, Hudson Hawk. On his way out of jail his parole officer blackmails him into stealing a horse statue from an auction house.
He meets up with his friend, played by Danny Aiello, with whom he owns a bar. They go and steal a horse statue with a crystal inside it. The next day he meets Andie MacDowell, an art historian for the vatican and a really bad nun.
Through a series of events he ends up in Italy. An eccentric, rich married couple (Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant) tells Hawk he has to steal a couple more pieces of crystal in order to build a machine that makes gold (invented by Leonardo da Vinci, of course).
Hawk has to deal with people double-crossing him and a group of CIA agents that are named after candy bars.
Like I said, this movie is over-the-top. There's about a hundred corny one-liners and several scenes of Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello singing while robbing/blowing shit up. The movie itself plays like it was made for teenagers, but it's clearly an r-rated affair, which barely makes sense. In 1992, Hudson Hawk won three Razzie awards (Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay). I can agree with that, but it's still a fun, yet dumb and awful movie.
6.5/10
November 30, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Bruce Willis certainly has his charms - as does his sidekick, played by Danny Aielo. I won't lie, though, I felt kind of embarrassed for the both of them throughout the whole thing, but that's not to say I didn't find myself enjoying it.
I think if I'd seen this as a youngster, I would've found myself wanting to be a cat-burglar and fighting with my brother for the part of 'hudson hawk' in our off-broadway, living room re-creation.
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