GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Steineded How sad is this?

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

statuskuo This stands up to the test of time. I recall, at the tail end of the 80's to the early 90's Michael J. Fox was attempting to shed his Alex Keaton image and segue into features. This along with "Casualties of War" and "Bright Lights, Big City" seemed to complete his trilogy of "adult material" movies. This was also in the midst of buddy-cop movies that it seems to be spoofing. I love Badham's direction in this film. Everything has a nice fast clip to it. The action pieces follow logic without being too showy. And...you really have to marvel at Badham's thrift when it came to action without the super budget.I got the feeling that Fox may've been spoofing a fellow actor in his "Method" way of going about learning to be a cop. That he was channeling the same over-thinking actor processes that Downey does to the extreme in "Tropic Thunder." In lesser hands, I think Nick Lang could've been a terrible caricature. But he skates a really fine line, and does it with such joy you love spending time with his spoiled brat complex.Also very under appreciated is Delroy Lindo's spin at the Captain role. You expect him to be a tough-as-nails screamer, but in reality...he's just a star-struck fan like we would all probably be. And it really lends itself to great humor to the frustrated Woods seriousness.It's a really fun movie.

buddyboy28 You often hear stories about actors spending some time with the actual people who do the job that they're going to be portraying on screen. If a movie star is going to play a cop in a role, they might ride around with the police for a few days to get a sense of their traits and experiences. Well this comedy takes that concept to the extreme and plays it purely for laughs.Michael J.Fox plays an Hollywood,pampered movie star of Indiana Jones type action movies who is sick of been labelled as a family oriented actor and wants to play meatier roles. He plans on playing a cop in a gritty new film, and in order to do some research, he is teamed up with New York's angriest, most unsociable detective James Woods. But he's on the trail of a psychotic serial killer and doesn't intend to let Fox get in the way.The plot isn't important here. It's the hilarious banter and excellent chemistry between the two lead stars that makes the film so much fun, while director John Badham milks the concept for all it's worth. He plays around with the cop movie conventions and bites the hand that feeds him with lots of swipes at Hollywood, before the likes of Last Action Hero, Showtime, and Hollywood Homicide got in on the act.The production design is terrific throughout and is as good as you could hope for what is essentially just an action comedy. Badham clearly put a lot of thought into his locations. The New York city streets in the film are crowded, dirty, and gritty looking,to further contrast Fox's Beverley Hills lifestyle.The stunts are impressive, and as the film goes on, the action sequences become more and more over the top, which suits the film because it puts Fox and Woods into situations similar to Fox's character's movies. The mayhem climaxes with a fun homage to North By Northwest. A great action comedy,and Fox and Woods set this apart from the usual buddy cop movies from the 80's and 90's. Loved it.

Jackson Booth-Millard From director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever), I was mainly attracted by it being a crime film with some good stars in it, so I decided to try it. Basically well-known actor Nick Lang (Michael J. Fox) is a after a role as a cop for a new movie, and to get motivation and inspiration for his character he decides to spend a fortnight with tough NYPD Detective Lt. John Moss (James Woods). The only problem is that Moss hates seeing him nearly everywhere he goes, and he is trying to concentrate more on catching a cold-blooded serial killer, the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang). So Lang, under the name Ray Casanov, is for a while cramping Moss's style, but they do slowly help each other out, Moss with Lang's character development (sort of), and Lang with following clues to catch the killer. Also starring The Hand That Rocks the Cradle's Annabella Sciorra as Susan, Delroy Lindo as NYPD Captain Brix, Luis Guzmán as NYPD Detective Benny Pooley, Mary Mara as NYPD Detective China, LL Cool J as NYPD Detective Billy, John Capodice as NYPD Detective Grainy, Christina Ricci as Bonnie, Big director Penny Marshall as Angie - Nick's Agent, Kathy Najimy as Lang's Girl Friday, Mos Def as Dead Romeos and Night at the Museum's Bill Cobbs as Raggedy Man. Woods and Fox make quite a good argumentative buddy duo, Lang is a good over-the-top villain, and there are a few good explosions and chases, so it is quite a worthwhile action comedy. Good!

xbrad68 The Hard Way is an entertaining Cop Comedy that was mentioned on the Simpsons season 5 Episode Homer and Apu. James Woods looks convincing as a tough New York City Police Lieutenant. There is a scene in the film involving heights and a billboard with the picture of Michael J Fox on it. President Jack Kennedys artificial Intelligence computer suggested or ordered that I write about the big Crunch. He is either talking about my Fathers Chinese Intelligence nickname or Closed Universes. As I said before, there is dark matter at the outside of our universe left over from previous big bangs that slows expanding matter and causes a big crunch eventually. The Care Rank Ki Aliens, Et Aliens created by the Care Rank Ki, and Humans Created by the Care Rank Ki and Et Aliens have been through several big bangs and big crunches with their moonfleets and movable planets and are tens of billions of years old at least. Thanks to Faster than light subatomic particles called rollys that travel back through time, Our Creators know the future at least thousands of years ahead of time using either particle accelerators, tokamak fusion reactors or breeder fission reactors or Candu fission reactors.The other movies of Michael J Fox and James Woods are worth watching as well.