Eye Candy #449 - "Tango & Cash"

Tango & Cash: This may be the epitome of the goofy buddy cop action genre that really spun out of control in the 1980‘s.   It’s also a perfect example of movies advertised through comic book ads are almost always garbage.   Which isn’t to say that I don’t like this movie.  I do, it‘s a guilty pleasure.   Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone as the trendy one) and Gabriel Cash (Kurt Russell, playing the Martin Riggs role) are LA’s two most unconventional cops.  They run afoul of criminal mastermind Yves Perret (a very hammy Jack Palance) who sets them up for murder.  So it’s up to our two mavericks cops to work together to clear their names.  Slick, flashy, over-produced, with an irritating synthesizer score, incidental nudity, terrible dialogue (they are trying soooo hard to come up with witty banter), and a ludicrous plot.  Character actors abound like Brion James, Clint Howard, and James Hong.  Oh, and we get Robert Z’dar, who is notable mostly for having a freakishly large chin.  A loud dumb movie that exists only as an excuse to stage loud dumb action set pieces in a loud dumb way.  Large quantities of sugar glass were harmed during the making of this movie.  Russell fares better with the one-liners than Stallone.  This film set Russian director Andrey Konchalovskiy’s career back decades.  Woodchuck sez, “Utterly trashy fun in a very mindless way.”