Friday, February 23, 2007

Red Heat (1988)

Synopsis: A Soviet drug dealer comes to the U.S. to close a deal and a Soviet cop whose partner was killed by the dealer travels to the U.S. in his pursuit. There, he teams with an American cop.
Appraisal: This film is lukewarm in all departments: plot, action, dialog, performances, you name it. Its subjacent theme are the differences in the Communist and Capitalist ways of life; it only touches the subject in the most superficial way. In the action department, it has an opening shootout in Moscow and a later chase in Chicago involving two big buses; none of that is really exciting, but it is professionally done. I've seen it dubbed in Portuguese.
Rating: 31

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