Powerful

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I laughed for a week. This movie has some comic gold in it. It's purposely ridiculous in a smart way. The cast is perfection. The folks who hate this movie lack a certain type of sense of humor, thus its a love it or hate it movie. I watch this for the comedy moments, without that it's a 5 in my book, but with the comedy and keeping in mind it is from 1991, it's a solid 8.

Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins (Bruce Willis) gets out of prison after 10 years. He's picked up by his best friend crime partner Tommy "Five-Tone" Messina (Danny Aiello). They are forced by mobsters, the CIA and couple Darwin (Richard E. Grant) and Minerva Mayflower (Sandra Bernhard) to steal the works of Leonardo da Vinci which are hiding crystals that combine to power a special machine. There is also Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) from a secret Vatican organization.This is a madcap caper. This is utterly ridiculous and some people may actually like it. This put me off a little. Bruce Willis does a bit of comedy at times but this movie needs a real comedian as his sidekick. God bless Aiello but he brings a different tone to the movie. I think everybody is expecting something closer to Die Hard but this is really a spoof of those movies. That's probably what put me off. It doesn't make me laugh but it certainly tries its darnedest.

Hudson hawk is shanghaied by various powerful people the moment he gets out of prison into pulling a museum job but of course this is just the beginning of his troubles. One of those hilarious underrated classics that pop up every now and again.The world and his wife lined up to criticise this film . They were ,of course, all completely wrong. Its part smarmy heist caper, part musical, part buddy action movie it does not clearly fit into one genre so of course people hated it.The comedy works the stunts are good and the plot is strangely compelling. Id advise you disregard everyone's opinion (except mine of course) and see it your self

We would have been so much better off if the film had remained where it started-circa 1481 with Da Vinci trying out his flying machine.Instead, we're relegated to modern times with thief, Bruce Willis, is released from prison only to get involved with a bunch of the weirdest crooks imaginable in their attempt to steal Da Vinci items at various museums so as to achieve world domination.The picture becomes one of foolish comedy with a variety of slap-stick sketches, where Willis and co-star Andie McDowall along with Danny Aiello try to outwit the nonsensical thieves. We even have a Roman priest uttering Jewish expressions.The whole thing is just one big farce.