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After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller
48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with
this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about
humorless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He
follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched
up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is
considerably more relaxed. Most of the humor revolves around
Danko's grumpy reaction to good ol' American capitalism, while
Ridzik urges him to chill out. Red Heat is not bad as action
comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this
predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack
and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go.
Incidentally, Red Heat was the first American film allowed to
shoot in Moscow's Red Square. --Jeff Shannon
Credits:
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed
O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen,
Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: All Regions
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