Highly Overrated But Still Good

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Great idea to use this over opening credits.Thee are no marching bands in pro football.Great jerk into "reality" from upbeat music to drenching.You would not see that many umbrellas at the stadium.Who is running towards Billy Cole after that?! And how are there so many police with shotguns that quickly?!Great scene with punks. His door lock is tremendously tall. The get what they deserve :)That looks like a house not an office.Worst positive affirmation.Is that Ray Weinstein?I think Joe is funny :)All that time as a PI on Moonlighting paid off. Ooo. Mike makes such a serious face. He didn't like that. He is a professional. Go to hell #@D#@!At least Sarah yelled for Joe.One great interaction after anther... Joe and Corey, Joe and Jimmy... Joe and Goons.She changes outfits extremely quick.$2.25 for cigatettes? That did not age well. Not only are cigarettes way more expensive, but they are almost nonexistent nowadays.Nice aim with the glass. That wasn't planned... it just worked out.... Joe and the leather pants...Always love the raster on the overturned TV.Polaroid!It got dark quick.Jake's handler is Milo's protege.Lethal Weapon! Cool within cool.I like how Joe pauses for the crash from the ice cream impact to complete.That's adult-ish to say "down the hall, first door on your right".Slightly forced to have Jimmy buying a paper.Fantastic face in reaction to the approaching car.Let Joe have one minute without calamity!No one is gonna want to buy Joe's house....Joe and Chet... Which becomes creepy...Chet's "corpse" is a beautiful choice of words. Several dogs in this movie. That's worth a point.Did this movie have stock in C4?Hell of a kick Darien.Sorry Jimmy, you misspelled bomb and boom.F-u Baynard. The guy's helping you up and you shove him. Go to hell!That helicopter got there quick!I'm always surprised by how much of the blade entry they show.Greatest dancing scene on film.F-u again Baynard. He just saved your life.Billy Cole is Billy Blanks! Wow!Milo is the greatest villain. Using full names is such a charming and sometimes irritating quirk.Still a great movie for many reasons... And I'm not just saying that because I am an Eagle Scout. Highly re-watchable. Highly quotable. And could do well on MST3K... how many great movies can do that.

The only reason I give this Bruce Willis film five stars is for the action and special effects. Otherwise, this is a mayhem movie of over the top gore and violence, crudity, foul language and vulgarity. The plot for "The Last Boy Scout" is a twisted and complicated mess. The film gets into everything from politics and crooked politicians, to major sports corruption, to drugs, sex, and government cover-ups. You know the movie is going into the realm of fantasy or sci-fi when a pro-football player is juiced on drugs and then runs the football carrying a gun and shooting down three defenders on the way to the end zone. I think the writers of this one might have been on the juice themselves – powder or liquid. As for acting and directing, how could one tell? It was constant mayhem, beating, shooting, running, etc. to the point that it was hard to follow any semblance of a plot. This is a far cry from the Die Hard films that have a simple plot and then build around it with tremendous action, special effects and clever solutions. Yes, they have violence – but not of the gore type, nor the crude, vulgarity of wild animals. This is one most people should skip unless you want to study what not to do and how not to make a film that would have wide audience appeal. I saw this movie in its theater release, but it had been so long ago and I couldn't remember much about it. So, I watched it again recently and it was soon apparent why I couldn't remember much about it. It definitely is a forgettable film.

L.A. Stallions running back Billy Cole gets a threatening phone call. In the game, he starts shooting and kills himself. Private eye Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) was once a heroic Secret Service agent. His wife is cheating on him with his work partner Mike Matthews. He punches Mike once but still wants his works. Mike's car explodes after giving Joe the job to protect stripper Cory (Halle Berry). Cory's boyfriend is former L.A. Stallions star quarterback Jimmy Alexander Dix (Damon Wayans) who was banned for gambling and drugs. Hit men kill Cory and Joe works to solve her murder with Jimmy and Joe's young foul-mouthed daughter Darian (Danielle Harris). It is attitude over substance. Tony Scott fills it with slick explosive action. Willis and Wayans form a sarcastic cynical duo. The case doesn't really matter and is forgettable as soon as it's revealed. It's the two characters tearing their way through L.A. Danielle Harris comes in to swear up a storm. This may be a good character for Willis to revisit.

In the opening scene of The Last Boy Scout, the movie starts off with a series of unexpected violence with a pro football player shooting himself in the head at close range. Now why did that happen? According to a unknown source, the player knows for a fact that he isn't going to score an touchdown and therefore, ends up blowing his brains out on the field.Cut to the early morning. Joe Hallenbeck, (Bruce Willis), is resting in his car when suddenly a couple of street punks decide to drop a dead squirrel in his car. The punks think Joe has fallen for the trick, but he proves them wrong. Hallenbeck's job is a private detective. His main job is to protect an stripper, (Halle Berry), who has been receiving threats from someone. Who is that sending those threats? Hallenbeck doesn't know. His investigation deepens when he encounters the stripper's boyfriend, (Damon Wayans), an disgraced quarterback who was kicked out of the game because of his drug abuse. After the quarterback's girlfriend is shot to death, the duo decides to investigates together. But that isn't going to be easy. At first, they trade insults between the two of them. Later on, they realize that they need one another to continue their investigation.The story of The Last Boy Scout is not at all original, however. The reason why is because it was written by the screenwriter who wrote Lethal Weapon 1 and 2. When I first heard of the plot of this movie, I immediately thought of Lethal Weapon. The plot of the movie leads the two completely different strangers into much more bigger things. Their clues leads them to the world of sports gambling, make that, illegal sports gambling. Among the bad guys in the movie is a character named Milo, (Taylor Negron), who is perhaps the most despicable of them all. From the looks of it, I have seen The Last Boy Scout several times over the last 4 years and all I can say is that my criticism is the same as it was 4 years ago. There are several good moments in the movie, but most of them come from the thrilling action sequences. There are a number of great stunts in the movie such as the finale where one character is hanging off a light tower while hanging onto a chain linked barrier. That some good stuff. There is a level of humor in the movie and those come from the funny jokes that Willis and Wayans mentioned in the movie.However, I was very concerned about the structure of the movie. I've said before that this is not a original movie and I guess it shouldn't be. But I felt that the dialogue should have been tone down because the movie littered with four letter words and sometimes twelve letter words. Most of the profanity comes from Willis' daughter, (Danelle Harris), who, in one particular scene, squares off against her father to see who can say the most bad words. Besides that, I also noticed the atmosphere of the movie, which is very mean-spirited and at certain times, unpleasant. That kind of atmosphere comes into place when we first meet Willis and Wayans. The way they talk to one another is sometimes funny. I have to admit that I did laugh at some of their bickering. But, the problem is that the way Willis and Wayans treated the women in their lives is very cruel. There's a subplot involving Willis' wife having an affair with someone else. On the other side, Wayans treats his stripper girlfriend very cruelly. I supposed there's a reason to all this.The violence in this movie is pretty bloody and like the language, I wish the editor of the movie would tone down the violence because I felt at certain times, it border on the unnecessary kind. Shane Black, who wrote the script for the movie was paid an hefty price for the script and I supposed the script would have to be pretty popular to made into a formula picture.All I can say is the movie works on a technical level. I especially like the actions sequences of the movie. But, the storytelling is not at all original. Director Tony Scott, who made Top Gun 5 years ago, does know how to make energetic action pictures. He certainly knows how to deliver. But, on the storytelling process, he doesn't know how to come up with a fresh story to tell. Yet, I think that is the reason why The Last Boy Scout works. Audiences don't really care about the story. They only care about the action sequences and the stunts. I did have that craving inside of me. I know for a fact that for a movie-goer to be turned on by the thrill of an action movie, one would have to be in the right mood for the movie. I was in the mood to see The Last Boy Scout. I knew that it was going to be a action film from the get-go, but I couldn't really buy most of what the movie had to offer, meaning the story and the plot. For a movie to work, I have to give The Last Boy Scout 3 stars for the technical aspects for the movie. As I said before, they do work. But, not the story. I guess I'm being too kind. With this being said, I've cut you some slack. ★★★ 3 stars.