I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fantastic!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Oddly enough, when it's a dark crime caper with some comedic/absurdist elements, the movie actually works pretty well. There are stakes, people are getting killed, and there are Nazis being evil...there are some genuinely exciting sequences in this movie.Then Dan Akyroyd's "Multiple Personality Disorder" rears it's ugly head again and the whole thing turns into a farce. You think his impressions of pop culture characters are supposed to be funny...and they are... until (here's the spoiler) you learn that he developed this MPD after a gang captured him and tortured him so severely he almost died.Yes, that is his actual back-story in this movie.How are you supposed to laugh at that? If they'd played this as a mostly straight movie with some jokes thrown in, it would have been fine. If Ellis had been what he was originally presented as: a brilliant detective with a broken mind trying to claw his way back into functionality, that would have worked. Hey, when Dan Akryoyd isn't mugging, he actually gives a pretty touching performance. This whole thing would have gone down as a dark but functional crime flick.Bur someone decided this had to be a "comedy." A comedy with Nazis, torture, and murder in it. And that killed the flick.Still, somethings have to be seen to be believed.

Let me tell you that i haven't had such a good laugh in ages. I saw this film last night for the first time and it was hilarious from start to finish. Paring up Dan akroyd and Gene hackman i think is one of the best team up in film I've actually scene, to the jokes,the action and the actual characters themselves. Having the plot about the Germans and having it set in Washington was pretty stupid i have to admit but it was all part how the story came together. Both the lead stars you rarely see these days due to idiots like eg(jack black,will Farrel) taking all the air time. This is the sort of comedy that the younger generation of today should be watching instead of the crap thats out these days. Well im glad these old films like this still exist.

How could Gene Hackman be part of this project and still remain dignified throughout the entire movie? Dan Aykroyd has at least done much worse (remember Doctor Detroit) but we kind of expect Hackman to be above this kind of sleazy action/comedy. I guess he thought that he could do Eddie Murphy one better who was at that time the king of action comedy.(Warning: Spoilers) The plot involving the Germans trying to make a Fourth Reich is very tired indeed and they are such an easy target. Check out what happens when Robert Prosky does his "best" Hitler imitation at the end of the movie and look at the screen behind him. Then remember his first scene he's in and it's exactly like you predicted but hoped it wouldn't turn out. I can remember seeing Prosky on Hill Street Blues where he was absolutely great and then seeing him here and saying: "What a tool!"And let's not forget the human blimp Dom DeLuise. Maybe he was funny in the early part of his career but to see him wheeze his way through a part that is miscasting to the max makes you feel nauseous. Ronny Cox of Beverly Hills Cop fame tries a southern accent which makes him sound like a very bad imitation of Billy Bob Thornton.The thing that is funny about this below average film is how many famous people who make perfect fools of themselves and Dan Aykroyd should feel kind of embarrassed to make schizophrenia look annoying instead of a disease. Like Roger Ebert has mentioned: "Any material can be funny if executed the right way." but this is definitely wrong.

I thought that these two actors would make a good film together...I was sorely mistaken. The jokes were bad, Hackman's acting (if it can indeed be called that) is forced, and Aykroyd is flat-out embarrassing. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't; I was asleep. Nothing worked in this movie.