"If you still pine for the '80s where East vs. West dominated action films,
then this is an essential part of your education."
— BBC.com
"If you still pine for the '80s where East vs. West dominated action films,
then this is an essential part of your education."
— BBC.com
USA, 1988
Director: Walter Hill
Producer: Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill, Mae Woods
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, Laurence Fishburne
Screenwriter: Harry Kleiner, Walter Hill, Troy Kennedy-Martin
Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
Music: James Horner
Genre: Action, Comedy
Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Language: English, Russian, Spanish
Running Time: 104 minutes
Synopsis:
Glasnost meets Glocks, with Soviet police captain Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) working alongside Chicago cop Art Ridzik (Jim Belushi) to catch a fugitive Russian drug kingpin, in perhaps the most mismatched of the "mismatched buddy-cop" films that permeated '80s Hollywood. Directed by Walter Hill, who popularized the subgenre with 1982's 48 Hrs.