ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

romanorum1 The first 15 minutes of the movie occurs in Red Square in Moscow. Grim, Stone-faced, distant Moscow homicide cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) tries to apprehend Russian Georgian drug dealer Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross) and his brother. Viktor escapes, but not before he shoots Danko's partner, Yuri. In turn, Viktor's brother is killed. Viktor escapes to Chicago, where he teams up with black thugs known as the Cleanheads. They are cocaine pushers. Danko is sent to Chicago where he teams up with vocal, wisecracking, plainclothes detective Art Ridzik (John Belushi) in order to track down Victor to extradite him. After he was captured and escorted by Danko and Ridzik, though, Viktor escaped when he was assisted by the Cleanheads, who were dressed like policemen. Ridzick's partner was killed in the mêlée. Thus the only plot of this action-thriller is to capture Viktor; there is neither mystery nor intrigue. There are, however, the obligatory shoot-outs and chase scenes. Note that neither Ridzick nor Danko believes in the Miranda Act. The ending involves a bus chase through the streets of Chicago at night, followed by a duel. This is the first movie in which an American director was allowed to film on location in Red Square. It was also filmed in Budapest and in Chicago.

frickabee Not many Schwarzenegger movies got a worse IMDB score than this one. I'll go along with that. At the very beginning of this movie, the viewer is shown gratuitous shots of Arnold's naked ass, giving people who enjoy that kind of thing reason enough to praise this movie, but at the same time, symbolizing what I thought of it.I think maybe the worst part of this movie is the dialog. When Jim Belushi said "Stupid G**damn f***ing Russians!" it took all my willpower not to hit the stop button. I like Jim Belushi in just about anything, but his acting was awful in this movie, as was everyone else's. To their credit however, they didn't have much to work with as the writing was atrocious. A five year old could write a more watchable movie. As far as the Russian accents go, the actors take a stereotypical approach, omitting the word "the" while they invoke the phoniest accents I've ever heard. Speaking of bad acting, a must-have for every decent cop movie is a good villain who gives the viewer reason enough to dislike them, but this one tries too hard and by the end of the movie, you don't even care what happens to him.I give this movie three stars and I think that's pretty generous for a movie I will never watch again.

adonis98-743-186503 A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country. The greatest thing about Red Heat is easily the chemistry of Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi and Walter Hill is an expert on this kind of things since he made 48 hours before this another team up buddy cop type of film and Lethal Weapon got made one year before this and so on also Ed O'Ross as Victor pretty cool bad guy and pretty much everyone did a nice job the humor was spot on always and worked every second of it, the one liners are priceless Cocainum, I don't want to touch his ass i want to make him talk, Who is Dirty Harry and more and more also the action sequences are amazing well done with the bus chase and the hotel shoot out being the ones that deliver the punch line and the soundtrack great 80's style but also the Russian Theme Song for Danko cool as hell. The 80's was on fire baby especially for Arnold except for Raw Deal which was one of his lowest point on that Era everything else was amazing The Terminator, Conan The Barbarian, Twins, Predator, Conan The Destroyer anything you can think of all of them great action packed movies and one comedy that showed Arnie's comedic skills. Red Heat is an action packed, underrated and classic 1988 film that every Schwarzenegger Fan needs to see. Happy Birthday Arnold Schwarzenegger and Happy Birthday to Laurence Fishburne who played Morpheus in Matrix and Noland in Predators the 3rd sequel to the classic 1987 Masterpiece directed by John McTiernan and starring Schwarzenegger.

bowmanblue Like many, I became a fan of Arnie in the late eighties/early nineties, however, despite about three viewings of 'Red Heat' I never really liked it. Until now. My initial disapproval of the film was the 'lack of action.' I guess I was too used to the big man mowing down hordes of bad-guys with machine guns, ala Commando, Predator and Terminator.But, although the action scenes are definitely subdued (when comparing them to Schwarzenegger's other output), there is actually some in there somewhere. I guess that 'Red Heat' normally gets lumped into Arnie's other work and so a lot of people call it an 'action' movie. As I said, there are a few shoot-outs and car chase, but 'action' is second to its primary genre, which is 'buddy cop' film.When you ignore the lack of cracking skulls and just focus on the relationship between the two mismatched leads, i.e. the tough Russian cop and wacky Chicago detective, then you'll find this could well be the most perfectly-formed buddy cop movie ever. The Schwarzenegger and Belushi combo works brilliantly. Their opposite personas play of each other and Red Heat could almost be considered a comedy rather than an action movie based on how many one-liners there are in there.Basically, if you're looking for out and out action, then this movie will probably fall short of your expectations (like it did with me for so many years). However, if you're looking for a no-frills buddy cop film that is just simple and effective, then this one will fill an hour and a half of your life. It's not 'classic' Schwarzenegger, but it does the job.