Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

robertsquentin When one thinks of Sylvester Stallone they think of Rambo or Rocky or one of his many other action avatars but this film Night Hawks is where he gives one of his most underrated performances. He plays a conservative cop trying to catch an international terrorist in his city. Rutger Hauer is another actor who is better known in films like Blade Runner but he is absolutely sublime here as the bad guy. The pacing is good and the film has that raw gritty look of early 80s. If you haven't already then you should check out Night Hawks.

Michael_Elliott Nighthawks (1981)** (out of 4)Average thriller has a psychotic terrorist (Rutger Hauer) arriving in New York City where he plans on spreading terror. It's up to a couple New York cops (Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams) to try and stop him.NIGHTHAWKS isn't an awful movie but at the same time it's far from being a good one. The film will appeal to fans of the 80's action movies where there was a lot of sleaze and violence. Apparently this film was trimmed by the studio before it went to the MPAA and then it had to be trimmed again when it got a X-rating. One really has to wonder what was actually cut because the film isn't all that violent and especially when compared to several other action films from this period.With that said, the best thing about the picture is certainly the cast who at least keep the film mildly entertaining. Stallone is in good form as the cop with baggage and Billy Dee Williams makes for a good partner. The two of them are fun to watch and I also enjoyed Nigel Davenport and Joe Spinell in their roles. Hauer was a genius when it came to playing cold-blooded bad guys and he does a nice job with the role of the terrorist. Again, rumor has it that he was stealing the picture so Stallone had a lot of his scenes trimmed and cut as well.The biggest problem with NIGHTHAWKS is the direction, which is all over the place and the fact that there's never any tension. Again, who knows how much was actually cut but what remains in the film is just not that stylish and I'd argue it's certainly not intense. It's really too bad the film plays out as bland as it does because the cast and locations are so good that one wishes the story and direction were better.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in order, I come to Nighthawks.Plot In A Paragraph. Deke DaSilva (Stallone playing a Police Officer for the first time in his career) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) are two New York City cops who get transferred to an elite anti-terrorism squad. About this same time, an infamous international terrorist called Wulfar (Rutgar Hauer) shows up in New York City.I'm not to sure why audiences stayed away from this movie, as it is a really good cop movie, with Sly (looking very much like Al Pacino in Serpico) putting in a good performance, alongside Billy Dee Williams and Rutgar Hauer. If anything it was ahead of its time. According to Hauer, Stallone was very egoistic and he constantly interfered with filming of the movie, even writing and adding some new scenes for his character because he was jealous that Hauer's character was doing more "cool" stuff in the movie. Two test screenings of the movie were shown, one with more Stallone's scenes and other with more Hauer's scenes. The version with more Hauer's scenes was better received by audience. This is why Stallone, known for his big ego, cut out some of the Hauer's scenes from the final version of the movie. The original cut of the movie was almost two and a half hours long. Stallone was said to be really disappointed with the way Universal studio reedited the movie (despite the fact that he did his share of reediting on the movie prior to the studio's interference). He was really upset because of the removal of his dramatic scenes with Lindsay Wagner, including an emotional scene between him and Wagner in a restaurant (only mentioned in the final version of the movie) where his character breaks down and cries after his wife refuses to remarry with him.Prior to its theatrical release, It was also severely cut for violence by both the MPAA. Amongst the scenes that were cut are the disco shootout which originally had Wufgar shooting and killing more people, and Wufgar's death scene in the ending which was almost completely cut out. An original uncut scene showed Wufgar getting shot five times (instead of twice) in slow-motion by DaSilva, and in the end, the final sixth shot hit him in the head blowing his brains out. An animatronic head of Rutger Hauer was made by special makeup artist Dick Smith and used in this scene.After starting in Rocky, Paradise Alley and Rocky 2, this is Joe Spinell's final appearance in a movie with his friend Sylvester Stallone.

Mark Simon Bradshaw I have just watched this film again tonight after a too long a time. Excellent. A terse drama which never lets,even Stallone's romance with Lindsay Wagner is not interrupted by any interludes. For me it is perhaps Stallone's best film,a lot more believable than any of his action films and it had some enlightened moments (at the beginning of the film,Stallone in drag dragging a hoodlum along a railway platform). I am a bit wary of remakes,but after 34 years this is perhaps due for one but with a new cast. Just one little query. In the IMDb,our very own Edward Fox is listed as an ATAC member. Was he is the film (although I didn't see him) and if so,was it a nod towards Fox's career changing role in The Day of The Jackal?