UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Pluskylang
Great Film overall
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
littlekatofficial
I'm not one for movies with a lot of stuff going on. That's why I like this movie, its simple. The Movie sets up a conundrum then lets the characters react to the situation.Yes there are parts in this movie that seem weird at times, but I can still like it.To some it up, its a simple movie that I'll always enjoy.
SnoopyStyle
There is a rivalry between Burton Cooper (Dabney Coleman) and his boss CIA director Ross (Charles Durning). Maddy (Lori Singer) is one of Cooper's agents. Cooper is able to doublecross Ross by getting a CIA agent arrested for cocaine smuggling in Morocco. The Senate calls on Ross to testify and he has 48 hours. Ross intends to misdirect Cooper by sending him on a wild goose chase. Ross' second Brown (Edward Herrmann) picks random guy at the airport, Richard Drew (Tom Hanks), the man with one red shoe. Richard is a violinist having an affair with his best friend Morris (Jim Belushi)'s wife Paula (Carrie Fisher). Cooper swallows the bait whole as his team struggles to discover what evidence Richard has against him.Tom Hanks is playing an everyman. If this movie works at all, it is due to his charms. At times, it tries to be a screwball comedy but it never gets to be outright funny. It's nice ... like Hanks. He's never unleashed and neither is the movie.
tedg
There are many different excuses to laugh, and any film that gives us one of them falls into that big bucket we call comedy.I don't suppose anyone knows much about what makes us laugh, but like yesterday's stock market results, everyone seems to have an opinion about failed comedy. This is a classic failed comedy, regardless of whether you thought the original French film successful.The story is that a crew of trained professionals mistakenly assume one thing and then grind that conclusion quite literally to death. The same thing happened to the crew that made this stinker.The women are marginally interesting. Lori singer was a real string player; here she plays the prostituting spy to a string player. Carrie Fisher was deep into her skinny drugged out highly sexed period and plays someone much the same (with a reference to Princess Leia and the wookie).Hanks only once in a rare while really tries to act. This isn't one of those times. My own theory is that he needs a challenging director.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
phillafella
THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE is a typical 80's Tom Hanks flick about a man mistaken for a spy. There isn't much to say about this one. The story is not really interesting and the movie tries to hard, becoming tedious by halfway. Not a solid move for Hanks and the movie is a big disappointment. Recommended only to diehard Hanks fans.1 out of 5
