Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

diogo gomes Yes its your tipical action full of cool dudes and cool bikes and boobs and fights and all that stuff we all love from 80/90s action movies.. and yes is dumb. But so what?? when u choose to watch a movie like this i know where u getting in. Its not oscar material, of course not, but its fun. Grab some beers and have fun watching Mickey and Don ridding some awesome Harleys while fighting drug lords.

bkoganbing Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man is a film not for the serious and not for the serious minded. This modern version of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid casts Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as a pair of devil may care bikers who live by their own rules and cross back and forth between the law and being outlaws. Sometimes they blend the line real close.Because some tight bankers are trying to foreclose on a favorite bar hangout of their's, just for a lark these two decide to rob the bank that's giving them the grief. Just like in Charley Varrick it turns out to be a syndicate front that not only launders money, but keeps the drugs on premises including a new designer drug that these two walk off with the prototype.I will say that Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson have the same easy going chemistry that Paul Newman and Robert Redford had. They make a somewhat silly plot easy to digest. Daniel Baldwin of the thespian Baldwin family also looks like he's feasting on the furniture playing the head bad guy. There's a gimmick involving a pair of old and patchworn boots that Don Johnson wears. In that final showdown with Baldwin those boots actually play a part in the climax.This one is one to enjoy and not get too cerebral over.

lost-in-limbo Who was the Einstein to put Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson together, because their agreeable combination was a blast as the two novelty title characters … but as for the feature itself it was a very lukewarm conventional buddy action comedy with a modern western touch to it all. From guys having a good time, organising a heist that goes wrong (not money, but drugs… whoops) and then finding them on the run for it. Having strong protagonists is one thing (though you could say Rourke and Johnson do feel like they were on cruise control), but they do carry this one along, where as having weak villains is downright criminal. A less than imposing Tom Sizemore is wasted, despite being the main corporate villain oozing with confidence, while Daniel Baldwin just lacked any sort of punch even though looking the part decked in black leather as a henchman. Even the bit players come and go with little to no impact. Julius Harris adds some class, while there's amusing playful parts for Big John Studd and Giancarlo Esposito. Then the likes of Chelsea Field, Vanessa Williams, Tia Carrere and Robert Ginty's characters felt like secondary inclusions to add something ala filler, which probably could have been scrapped from its bloated script. Director Simon Wincer gives it slick technical treatment (crafty cinematography) and aplomb in it's vigorously over exaggerated action set-pieces and stunt-work, but its liveliness couldn't hide its generic score, banal story structure and silly plotting. A mindless popcorn action romp with its two stars having a ball. "It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool".

david-sarkies This is one of those movies that I fondly remember from my younger years, and while back then I simply watched it as a typical action movie, I come back to it now to see that it is a movie that brings out the essence of American culture, particularly culture out in the west. This movie, while set in the near future (when it was released), follows the style of a classic western movie. It is about a couple of drifters, cowboys, Harley Davidson, the new style of cowboy riding his Harley and wearing his leather jacket, and the Malboro Man, a classic cowboy with his boots and his hat.The narrative of this film is similar to the old style westerns, but in many ways goes to show that nothing has changed and nothing will change. We see that despite progress (the world now flies into and out of Burbank Airport) the west is still lawless and has still been left behind. Chance Wilder, the antagonist of the piece, only earns $500,000 a year as the head of the bank (most likely the Los Angeles branch), and has to supplement his income in other ways.The west is still lawless, and while the police to appear, they tend to take a back seat. Virginia Slim (a type of cigarette) is Malboro's girl, and while she works for the police, she has no idea about what is going on, nor does her partner. Instead, it is still the law of the gun, as can be seen by the thugs that carry out Wilder's dirty work.The cowboy still drifts, as we see Harley drifting from east to go out west, though not to make his fortune, and then drifts back east at the end of the film. However the east and west division between civilisation and barbarity is still evident as they jump on a train back east when things get too hot, though returns to the west to finish off the unfinished business.In essence this movie is about the American culture, the main characters representing the motor bike and the cigarette, with Virginia Slim being the feminine Marlboro. Throw in Jack Daniels, the the big guy who is representative of tough, but ugly guy that you don't want to upset. It is all about taming that which is wild. The cowboy rides the bull, which is in essence the duty and nature of the cowboy, to go into the wilderness and bring civilisation there. Yet this is also evident when we see the woman on the bike in the bar, in the same way the cowboy is taming the wild beast. I guess this demonstrates the American Narrative, that in one sense, looking from the east, the west is still a wild and untame place, but even now that the West has been won, there is always new horizons and new frontiers that need to be tamed.