Hudson Hawk

Plot synopsis:
In an introductory scene, Leonardo da Vinci is in his studio, working on a variety of projects. The largest, a complex mechanical machine which focuses the sun's rays, is intended to turn lead into steel, but when activated, it turns out that the machine has turned the lead into something far more valuable: gold. Realizing the danger such a machine could wreak, he decides to hide the essential gemstone component, made of three pieces, by hiding them amongst his various works.In the present, Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins (Bruce Willis) is being released from Sing Sing Prison after doing 10 years, presumably for burglary. As he is checking out of prison, he is met by his corrupt parole officer, Gates, who offers to excuse him from community service in exchange for pulling off an art heist. Hudson declines, and meets his buddy (and presumable partner-in-crime) Tommy Five-Tone (Danny Aiello), who offers him his favorite drink, a cappuccino, but spills it when he slams on the brakes.The pair return to their old haunt: their co-owned bar Five-Tone in Hoboken, but when Hudson enters, he finds it converted from a comfortable hole in the wall full of working-class regulars, to an elite, upscale urban professional bistro. While attempting to enjoy a fresh cappuccino, he is interrupted by local crime bosses Cesar Mario (Frank Stallone) and Antony Mario (Carmine Zozzora), who reveal they are behind the art heist proposed by Gates, and try to pressure Hudson into doing it.Hudson decides to go through with the heist, and plans the job with Tommy, while his desires to live a straight life fight against it. Sneaking into an auction house, the duo mislead the guards by rewinding the security camera recorders, playing back earlier footage of a quiet building, while Hudson cracks the safe, retrieving a bronze statue of a horse. All the while, the duo are singing a song -- "Swinging On A Star" -- to themselves, separately, in order to keep time with each other. As they reach the end of the song, the guards discover them, but the two manage to escape by jumping off the building's roof.In a surreal cut-scene, Hudson, statue in hand, finds himself landing in an armchair in Gates' living room, with Gates and the two Marios waiting. Gates gleefully takes the statue from Hudson. Soon, an English butler, Alfred (Donald Burton) arrives, taking the statue from Gates, admiring it as one of da Vinci's finest works, then smashing it over his head. It shatters, and Alfred retrieves a fist-sized gemstone from the remains. Alfred then dispatches Gates, releasing a switchblade machete from his sleeves and slashing Gates' throat, and then leaves, with the Marios in tow.The next morning, Hudson appears at the Five-Tone, telling Tommy the story of the previous night, but Tommy is already ahead of him. Reading from the morning paper, he tells Hudson about their heist, which is reported as an attempted heist, foiled by guards, and the horse statue, the Sforza, will be auctioned off that night as planned.Intrigued, and confounded, Hudson rents a tuxedo and attends the auction, where he meets Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell), a Vatican antiquities expert, who is invited onstage to verify the authenticity of the statue; to Hudson's bemusement, she does. During the auction for the Sforza, a flamboyant and impetuous man, Darwin Mayflower (Richard E. Grant) storms in and declares his bid of $1,000,000. Immediately afterwards, an equally flamboyant and impetuous woman (Sandra Bernhard) trots in, dog in tow, and declares a bid of $1,000,001, outbidding the man, who is identified as her husband. As the auctioneer calls for closing bids, the man and woman, as well as an assorted cadre of people eating candy bars scattered in the audience, duck; as the auctioneer's gavel hits the podium, it violently explodes, killing the auctioneer and scattering art pieces everywhere. The man and woman promptly leave, unscathed. Meanwhile, Hudson tackles Baragli to save her from a falling column; and is subsequently knocked out by a swinging hung sculpture.Hudson awakes to find himself in an ambulance, but instead of doctors, is surrounded by the Mario crime family, ecstatic about their latest gig. The Marios are planning to kill Hudson, but instead, he manages to hit the ambulance's driver, and incapacitate Antony with a rack of syringes. Cesar kicks Hudson out of the ambulance, shuttling the gurney he is lying on onto the freeway. The disruption in the ambulance causes it to run offroad and flip over, killing the Marios. Hudson, still strapped to the gurney, manages to dodge traffic and even a toll booth, and direct the gurney to an offramp, before it eventually comes to a stop in the industrial district, where he meets up with a group of characters he recognizes as the candy-eating people from the auction. The first introduces himself as Snickers (Don Harvey), who shocks Hudson with a cattle prod. Hudson is released from the gurney from a mute man (David Caruso) who shows him a white card identifying himself as Kit Kat. A young black woman appears (Lorraine Toussaint), identifying herself as Almond Joy, explaining their names as code names. A tall muscular man with a crew cut (Andrew Bryniarski) exits a portable toilet, which he accidentally knocks over, and then introduces himself as Butterfinger. Finally, the team is revealed to be led by a seasoned CIA veteran, and former nemesis of Hudson, George Kaplan (James Coburn). The Sforza heist is revealed to be part of a CIA sting operation against the Mayflowers, in which Hudson is now an unwilling accomplice. Hudson is knocked out and stashed in a wooden crate of packing peanuts.Hudson wakes up from his induced sedation, escaping from the packing crate, and finds himself in an ornate room. Looking out a nearby window, he sees the Coliseum; Alfred appears, and welcomes him to Rome. He is taken to the Mayflowers' corporate board room, where Darwin Mayflower announces his plan for world domination via recomposing da Vinci's La Maqunia d'Oro and convert lead into gold, flooding world markets and making the commodity worthless. The company has reverse-engineered da Vinci's plans for the machine, and have identified the three pieces containing the shards of the machine's essential gemstone; the Sforza was the first. The second is contained in a secret pocket of da Vinci's Codex, which is on display in the Vatican.Hudson visits the Lateran museum in Vatican City to case the joint; while there, he happens into Baragli, who is giving a tour. At the end of the tour, the Codex is shown, kept it it's own basilica and protected with a glass case and a security cage hanging overhead. Hudson grabs a young girl's toy elephant and flings it towards the case, which triggers proximity sensors, releasing a gas cloud and causing the security cage to suddenly drop over the glass case. Baragli finds Hudson, and brings him through a secret door which leads to the Vatican postal railway. Charming her, he arranges to meet her for dinner. Meanwhile, he has planned out the job to snatch the Codex. While phoning Tommy to tell him about his latest adventure, he manages to miss seeing Tommy, already in Rome, living it up with the Mayflowers just feet away from the phone booth. He runs into Kaplan's team, where Kit Kat warns him about "the blue wire." Snickers informs Hudson that he has to do the Codex job tonight, which he protests, but Almond Joy takes his materials list and the team begins procuring the items.That night, Hudson sneaks into the Lateran museum, using mirrors to deflect the security lasers, and a fishing pole to hook the Codex. When a security guard notices the mirrors missing, he runs down the stairs to the Codex, seeing Hudson's setup. Upon reaching the setup, frantically calling for backup, Hudson yanks the Codex off its plinth, causing the gas to escape and trapping the guard inside the security cage, while Hudson escapes through the glass basilica roof. Running from remaining gendarmerie, Hudson is chased along rooftops, eventually escaping by falling into a chicken truck, which, it happens, drives right past the restaurant where he is meeting Baragli for dinner. Kaplan's "candy bars" CIA team is also there, watching their table. Baragli fawns over Hudson, and they retreat to her place, where she gets intimate, but she demurely rejects his sexual advances. Suddenly, a secret intercom behind a crucifix in her apartment lights up and sounds an alarm, announcing that there's been a break in at the Lateran museum -- upon which, she trips over Hudson's satchel, revealing the Codex. Hudson tries to explain, but it turns out Baragli already knows he was going to steal the book, and confronts him with the fact he's working with the Mayflowers. They chat about his role in the Mayflowers' plot, but he insists that he's an unwitting patsy, "just a guy that's good at stealing stuff." Baragli knocks him out with a spiked cappuccino, and the Candy Bars enter; Baragli scolds them for not informing her and "her people" that the Codex theft was happening that night, and demands to meet with Kaplan.Kit Kat brings Baragli to see Kaplan, who tries to smooth out the rough edges with her. Upon leaving, she happens to spot the Mayflowers' dog there. After she leaves, Kaplan reveals that he's letting Baragli tag along in order to get closer to the "mysterious Vatican organization" she works with. Later, Baragli is seen in a confessional, talking to a priest, who it turns out is her superior in a clandestine Vatican counter-espionage operation. Upon exiting, she is wearing a nun's habit. She explains to her boss that, while the Vatican organization believes they are working with the CIA in order to stop the Mayflowers' plan, that in fact the CIA is working with the Mayflowers to help the plan succeed.Hudson is brought again before the Mayflowers where he is given the details on his next job, a heist of da Vinci's aerial screw helicopter from the Louvre. Hudson shuts them down, insisting he is not going to do another job for them. They blindfold him, then leave the room; he removes the blindfold to find Tommy, who explains that he was informed of the whole plot ahead of time, thinking it would be a lot of fun and give Hudson a breath of fresh air after his time in prison. Hudson and Tommy get into a struggle over a gun, bursting out of the room, past the Mayflowers and Candy Bars, and off the balcony, onto the ground below, where the gun goes off, and Tommy is shown bleeding. An ambulance appears, taking Tommy and Hudson away; the Mayflowers turn to Kaplan and direct him to execute "Plan B."The ambulance, then out of sight, drives into a rolling Vatican box truck, and Hudson, Five-Tone (unwounded, but covered in ketchup), and Baragli exit. They retire to Baragli's apartment, confident that the ruse has fooled the Mayflowers and the CIA team. With Hudson no longer working the job, the Mayflowers' plan is thus foiled. Hudson attempts another romantic advance on Baragli, which she again politely declines, to his dismay, asking him (and Tommy) to sleep on the couches.The next morning, Hudson and Tommy are awoken to find the Candy Bars in Baragli's apartment, with Baragli nowhere to be found. Almond Joy sedates the pair with curare-laced blow darts. Hudson insists that this will still not get him to pull off the Louvre job, but Kaplan tosses him a newspaper, showing that the Louvre was hit the previous night by a well-armed commando team -- Kaplan's team, who stole the da Vinci helicopter in a much more violent and excessive way than Hudson's cat burglar techniques. The last piece of the gemstone is revealed from the base of the helicopter, and Kaplan declares Hudson and cohorts to be "irrelevant." Just then, Baragli enters the apartment, aiming a gun at Kaplan, to Hudson and Five-Tone's joy. However, Almond Joy no-sells Baragli's threat, confident that Baragli won't shoot (over Hudson and Five-Tone's encouragement), because "I've read your dossier, Sister," and likewise immobilizes her with a curare dart. They then reveal that Baragli is a nun, which everyone in the room knew except for Hudson; Hudson is upset at the deception, but Baragli reveals that she does have special feelings for him.The Candy Bars take Baragli away, as they need her Vatican expertise for the "next level." However, they don't need two cat burglars anymore, and plan to set timed bombs in the apartment, using a unique adhesive-timed-bomb-launching gun. Hudson and Five-Tone begin to overcome the sedation of the curare, just as Almond Joy is about to re-administer it; they quickly get the jump on her, causing her to swallow a curare dart, immobilizing herself. As Snickers is about to set another bomb, they trip him; causing him to drop the gun, which spins around, launching a bomb onto his head. As Hudson and Five-Tone jump off Baragli's balcony, the bomb on Snickers' head explodes, destroying the apartment, with Snickers and Almond Joy along with it.Planning to stop the Mayflowers as well as rescue Baragli, Hudson and Five-Tone get to Castle da Vinci, where La Maquina is being restored, and proceed to breach the grounds, again timing their efforts with a song as they did in the auction house, this time singing "Side By Side." Meanwhile, the Mayflowers and Kaplan are trying to get Baragli to show them how to assemble the three shards into the correct final gemstone for the machine, but Baragli is feigning hallucinations from the curare. They then inform her that (as they believe) Hudson is dead. As the sounds of Hudson's and Five-Tone's breach (using the bomb-launcher taken from Snickers), Kaplan and Butterfinger leave to investigate, leaving Baragli alone with Minerva Mayflower and Kit Kat. Mayflower, with an iron crossbow trained on Baragli, suddenly turns on Kit Kat, shooting him fatally. Kit Kat, in his dying moments, releases Baragli from her bindings; meanwhile, Butterfinger, sent by Kaplan to report back to Minerva, is instead shot by her. Mayflower then returns her aim to Baragli, who overpowers her and escapes. Meanwhile, again at the moment the song ends, Five-Tone is caught by sleeve-machete-wielding Alfred, who takes him to the Mayflower's car, locking him in the back with Darwin, who he punches out. Hudson encounters Kaplan, who begins attacking him with martial arts; he seems to trap Hudson in an induced muscle spasm, but Hudson interrupts it, causing Kaplan to mis-aim a timed flying kick, sending Kaplan off the roof and onto the Mayflowers' car. Then, Baragli shows up -- "We're supposed to be saving you!" "I got bored, so I saved myself!" Meanwhile, with Five-Tone tied up in the back, Darwin leaves the car, and Alfred knocks it into neutral. Darwin calls up tauntingly at Hudson, as the car coasts off a cliff and explodes, with Five-Tone trapped inside and Kaplan on the hood. Hudson is devastated.Hudson and Baragli are taken inside the castle, where the Mayflowers are stumped, unable to combine the shards into the right gemstone. Hudson takes a shot at it, over Baragli's protests, and eventually crams the shards together into a completed gem. Ecstatic, the Mayflowers put the gem in place, and start the machine, proudly boasting their achievement. Baragli is disgusted at Hudson for helping the Mayflowers win, but Hudson reveals he left out one of the shards, which she happily acknowledges is "very bad." Shortly thereafter, the machine explodes, covering Minerva in molten lead, and burning Darwin to a crisp. Hudson and Baragli run, but are caught by Alfred, who extends both machetes. Hudson fights with Alfred, managing to shove both of Alfred's long knives into one of the castle's thick wooden doors, then slams the door shut, causing Alfred to be decapitated by his own blades. Subsequently, they are blocked by the Mayflower's dog, Bunny, who begins to attack Baragli's neck. Hudson, remembering that Bunny liked chasing tennis balls, takes a tennis pitching machine previously used by Darwin, and, getting Bunny's attention, launches a tennis ball out a window, which the dog gleefully chases out of it. With the castle rapidly catching fire and crumbling from the explosion of the giant gold machine, Hudson and Baragli escape using the da Vinci flying machine, landing eventually in a field near a small village. There, they visit a cafe and talk about their future, Baragli suggesting that God wants her to "keep an eye on him." Baragli mourns Five-Tone, but just then, to their amazement, Five-Tone emerges from a taxi, alive, declaring that the Mayflower's high-end town car had an interior fire suppression system, saving his life. With friends alive, love interest kindled, and having successfully defeated both the Mayflowers and the Candy Bars, Hudson finally gets to drink his cappuccino.

Tags: comedy, murder, cult, absurd, humor, psychedelic

Review:
When Bruce Willis made The Last Boy Scout later that year, one reviewer said "He gets punched in the mouth so many times, he must feel like he's still reading reviews of Hudson Hawk" Willis wrote the story for this film, so I'm sure this must have particularly hurt him, this film put his career in the toilet before Pulp Fiction revived it.
Along the way stupid jokes are told, the plot is ignored or twisted in the name of a joke and the entire cast winks at the audience repeatedly as if to say that even they can't believe the silly things they are doing in the name of fun.When this movie opened it was crucified by critics across the country as an unfunny vanity project.
Hudson Hawk is actually a wonderful little movie with a reputation is simply doesn't deserve.By the time July of 1991 rolled around the movie was getting its UK premier and the ad campaign had changed to play up the comedy and adventure more than the action.
As you can tell, I've been a fan of Hudson Hawk since I was a kid.Bruce Willis is Eddie Hawkins, the world's greatest cat-burglar, who is determined to go straight after a long stretch in prison.
Yes, Bruce Willis created Hudson Hawk himself.The movie is far from perfect though, even the biggest Hudson Hawk fans know that.
I do believe that kids and family audiences were the people that Hudson Hawk should have been sold to and the R-rating harmed the films appeal a lot.McDowell aside, the cast are all either wonderfully over-the-top or strangely quirky.
Some of my favorite lines from any movie are in this film."How long (were in you prison)?" "Let's just say I never saw E.T."Some of the references are very early-mid 90s, as to be expected.
It's not like Bruce Willis is doing any incredible movie these days...And if you haven't seen this because somebody told you it was a bad movie, open your mind and go watch it now!
Bruce Willis is Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins, a cat burglar intent on retiring but who is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a (gasp!) world domination plot.
Along for the ride are Tommy Five-Tone (Danny Aiello), mysterious nun Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) and conniving bad guy George Kaplan (recognize that name?) played by the late James Coburn.The plot sounds like it could have made for a good DIE HARD-style caper, but director Michael Lehmann had other ideas.
The whole world likes Willis's acting, action and the characters he portrays.Although this movie was recently rated among the 10 worst movies of all time at MSN, I found it quite refreshing, interestingly funny and downright campy.
We all know this was supposed to be a franchise, so you might as well cash in on this ridiculous Da Vinci Code craze and get on with "Hudson Hawk 2: Burgle Me These." The way I see it Hudson and Tommy, thinking they were free finally from the life of the singing cat burglars are forced back into action by a black ops government agency.
Bruce worked on this for a very long time.If you check out Willis' acting stuff, it is a particular style, very much like Mel Gibson's.
Bruce Willis is in cute smile / sarcastic wisecrack mode - more like his 'Moonlighting' days as opposed to his current action hero motif - he gets to deal with psychotic billionaires, the "MTV-IA", (somewhat) organized crime, and attractive nun from the Vatican.
I think most people that watch this movie go in having heard how amazingly bad it is and are just unable to believe it.
Bruce Willis gives one of his worst performances as Eddie Hawkins/Hudson Hawk, likewise Danny Aiello is not up to his usual standard as Tommy Hawks best mate, Andie MacDowell is very blah as Anna, Hawks love interest.
One thing I did like was a running joke in the movie that has Hudson and his partner Tommy (Aiello) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits.
While I understand the filmmakers probably wanted to make a movie which was a kind of comedy-caper, much like similar films of the 1960's, they made so many over-the-top efforts to "to be funny" that "Hawk" is nearly unwatchable in some scenes.Usually heist films and other similar fair where the baddies are essentially the main characters have a lot of comedy which can evolve out of the situations rather than being forced.
This film was listed as number nine; a travesty.While true that the film did not make as much money as was spent, that seems to be a fluke combination of expensive sets, and just plain old bad timing in that the public wasn't in the mood for this movie at this time.The entire feel of the movie is very akin to the Fifth Element, also starring Bruce Willis.
Hudson Hawk is pun filled, featuring a plot starring the CIA, the Vatican (yeah, the Catholic Church is a main player), a common thief (Bruce Willis), and maniacal rich people (Sandra Bernhard in one of her few watchable moments).
Well, as time and Willis would have it, this movie that did much better over seas than in America, was still a fun romp into Bruce's creative head.
Grant does a great job of chewing up the scenery as the over the top bad guy, I even liked the "Swingin' On A Star" duet between Bruce and Danny.
Bruce Willis plays the title character (whose name comes from a song Willis was working on -- indeed the whole movie grew out of it; you hear it in the ending credits) with the same dry slapstick style he perfected on "Moonlighting".
"Hudson Hawk" takes the prize as the worst, most confused, ridiculous, unfunny, just plain stupid comedy adventure I have ever seen.
The plot, not that there really is one, is utterly ridiculous and totally unbelievable.The entire cast, which included Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, James Coburn and Andie McDowell, are all unimpressive, and even the action sequences manage to come off confused and unsure of themselves.I wonder if Michael Lehmann, so impressive as director of "Heathers", was ever in control of this mess?Saturday, June 22, 1991 - Knox District Centre.
You should do because Hudson Hawk is a dreadful, product placement veichle for Bruce Willis to mug the camera and do over the top things.It's a vanity project, and it's a shining example of what happens when people with power just don't give a rat's ass.
Hudson Hawk is the kind of movie made by stuck up, overpaid, clueless bastards with money to burn.Eddie Hawkins (Willis) is the Hudson Hawk, the greatest cat-burglar who ever lived and he has been blackmailed by the CIA and an OTT camp villain couple called The Mayflowers (Richard E.
STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits Freshly released from jail, cat burglar Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' (Bruce Willis) is approached by two crime brothers to pull off another caper.
But this turns out to be just the beginning of a crazy plot involving an eccentric couple (Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard), his best friend (Danny Aiello) and a curator (Andie McDowell) with a, er, holier real profession...In 1988, Willis had appeared in Die Hard, the unforgettable action classic that pretty much re-defined the genre and pretty much cemented him as a bona fide Hollywood star.
This film is so satisfied with itself, but it never lets the audience see something just remotely close to reality so that the absurdity can find a foothold.I knew of this movie just by reputation - it was a bomb so notorious in its time it almost (just almost) made the previous year's Bonfire of the Vanities (also, coincidentally, with Bruce Willis) not seem so bad.
Sure, you have a super-star like Bruce Willis (and other names like Danny Aiello and Andie McDowell and, uh, Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard and James Coburn, people who may not have cost much but they're there I guess).
But here, it's completely artificial.It's not that artificial can always be a death knell; filmmakers for decades have used a sort of heightened, stylized form of dialog for characters to be kind of cool and interesting - watch the Ocean's 11 movies and you see it done with actual style and sincerity, since a) it's actually funny lines being delivered, and b) the filmmakers know to give a few minutes to let the characters be sort of real people.
Here, from right after a prologue showing the DaVinci whatever thing, when Hudson Hawk is leaving prison onward, it's an onslaught of snappy dialog that doesn't snap, and things like, oh, musical numbers (?!) set as Willis and Aiello pull off a cat burglary/heist and it's so, so bad.This comes down to just being cartoonish; I almost wish it had been a cartoon, even an episode of f***ing Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, whatever, and at least there could be some context for some of the things that happens with the supporting characters.
This is a movie where the writers and director think they've got a smash comedy on their hands - jokes about Nintendo and Cappuccino drinks abound, for example, and about stuff like the Vatican but it's so safe, even as it's an R-rated movie - but no arbiter of good taste seemed to be on the set while every actor made themselves into jerks.
Sometimes for things to be funny, you have to play it STRAIGHT, to not make it like you're in on the joke, and that is the central problem with this movie.There's actually one almost decent sequence, where Willis has to steal a sacred notebook from a Roman museum, and here there is very little dialog (there's no show-tune, thank god), and how Hawk goes about stealing this item and getting away shows a few good ideas that the filmmakers had.
Maybe this movie was not supposed to be high art but some of the jokes fall flat on their face, especially regarding David Caruso's non-speaking part as Kit-Kat.Andie McDowell does a fairly good job at keeping a straight face through all this but remember, this is definitely not a chick-flick and it is quite possible she would rather forget the whole experience.
My kind of chocolate pie.I like Bruce Willis in comedy and his acting works well with Andy and Danny's I think.
As my name applyes, i´m a great fan of Bruce Willis, which only make the movie better.
The music sequence of "Would You Like To Wish On A Star", sung by dangerous duo Willis and Aiello was admittedly and undoubtedly the best thing about this misfire of a movie, left in the hands of a trio of writers, one of them being Steven De Souza, where we would expect more from the guy.
Well, when I began to watch this movie, I knew it was a comedy and I thought I'll have a good (if not great) time.
It's just that this is too much : lots of money and a good cast spoiled !With Willis, I would much rather see the "die hard" movies over and over..., and that's just what I suggest you to do !.
Many things have been said and written about Hudson Hawk, but one thing that many people can agree on is the fact that the movie has a great soundtrack.
The scene is great because you learn two things 1) Stealing priceless art is easy and fun and 2) Bruce Willis can actually sing.Regarding the non-musical scenes, one might find themselves wondering "What the hell is going on?".
I got the feeling that the makers were taking the business of making something light hearted really really seriously.The jokes are so cheap ("There are 640 Wongs in the phone book!" "That's a lot of Wong numbers!") that it's hard to raise a smile at the script, but some of the set scenes, like the theft of the horse statue that starts it all, are actually really nice ideas.Presumably if Willis hadn't been behind it, it wouldn't have had a chance of getting great actors like Richard E Grant involved, or even of being made.
This comes from believing the critics and the (long dead) negative hype for this movie-- even after seeing most of it, and liking it, I still never bothered to rent the thing or watch it from start to finish.
Once we meet Bruce Willis's present-day Hudson Hawk, he jumps into his repertoire with buddy Danny Aiello so quickly, it's a jarring change in pace that takes the viewer several minutes to adjust.
Grant and Sandra Bernard make super-annoying megalomaniacs, James Coburn gives the other bad guys the necessary gravitas, and an evil butler has not a single funny line, but a great weapon of choice.I've always been on the fence about Andie McDowell, and this movie doesn't tip the scales either way.
I've often said that the worst movies in the world are comedies and Hudson Hawk helps to prove my point.
RELEASED IN 1991 and directed by Michael Lehmann, "Hudson Hawk" stars Bruce Willis as the titular expert cat burglar who has just been released from prison and intends on going straight, but he's blackmailed by the eccentric Mayflower couple (Richard E.
I love me some Bruce Willis as much as the next guy, but sometimes even he can't save a film from being terrible almost to the point of un-watch-ability.
Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins (Bruce Willis) gets out of prison after 10 years.
Bruce Willis does a bit of comedy at times but this movie needs a real comedian as his sidekick.
Hudson Hawk is the most fun I've had watching a Bruce Willis movie.
Hudson Hawk is Bruce Willis' pet project in which he plays a world renown cat-burglar.
Hudson Hawk is a very clever spoof movie containing action, adventure, romance, humor, wit, friendship and a plot line that follows through.
Both James Coburn and Danny Aiello play wonderful supporting actors, and who doesn't love Bruce Willis and Andie MacDowell!
Bruce Willis again showed me that he doesn't take himself too seriously, and Richard Grant and Sandra Bernhard are perfect as the cartoon-like villains.
I thoroughly enjoyed it when I rented it way back then, and again even now in 2005.The movie laughs at other movies, itself, the actors seem to have a great time during the movie, and the chemistry between all the characters seems genuine and good.Enjoy the fun, and don't think too hard about it..
Don't ask me why people don't mind taking trash like that with a grain of salt, but feel the need to bash the hell out of a movie like "Hudson Hawk." I mean, how can you possibly hate a film where there's a chase between an ambulance and a gurney on the Brooklyn Bridge?
But to those of you who trash this film at every opportunity, I challenge you NOT to watch at least five minutes of it when it airs on Comedy Central on a random Saturday afternoon.Hudson Hawk may have come up on Premiere's Top 50 Hollywood Disasters of All Time, but you have to give it points for great casting, some memorable action sequences, a scene-stealing Andrew Bryniarski as the bumbling CIA meathead Butterfinger, as well as some admirable risk taking in the Willis/Aiello musical numbers.
Bruce Willis is hilarious as Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins and Danny Aiello as his partner Tommy Five-Tone was the perfect counterpart.
Willis and Aiello created characters that will last a lifetime in the hearts of everyone with a sense for adventure and a need to fill their lives with laughter.Eddie "Hudson hawk" Hawkins is the worlds greatest cat burglar.
What I notice about this film is that a lot of people expect this to be a true action movie, probably because of the other action movies Bruce Willis has made.
I had actually seen this movie in the theater, and expected to see a typical Bruce Willis action film.
Grant) and some clever gimmicks.Personally, it's always nice to see Bruce Willis having fun when making a movie.
When I first saw this back when it came out I thought it was pretty bad, having grown up watching "Die-Hard" Willis films, it wasn't what I expected.
I sort of fits in its own little category.Its one of the few times that Bruce Willis is funny and I love Sandra Burnheart(which is big considering I don't care much for her.) Its also weird how funny David Caruso as Kit Kat, colorful mime.If you want to sit down and watch a movie you don't take seriously(I mean it, do not try to think at all)then Hudson Hawk is perfect for you to watch..
If you feel that a movie should "make a statement" or, for that matter, have a point, you won't think much of Hudson Hawk.
HUDSON HAWK is a film people either love or they hate.
I personally greatly enjoy this movie, but the case can be made, if you look at HUDSON HAWK in a certain light, that it is a terrible waste of time and money.
Best Bruce Willis movie ever.
Hudson Hawk is the best Bruce Willis movie I have ever seen.
This film is not the best of Bruce Willis' career, but it's not as bad as everyone says.
This movie is funny, try watching Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello together, they look like they are having a blast filming this.A good comedic effort, and deserves better than it gets..
Bruce Willis has great comic timing and became a star in comedy long before he did action movies.
Totally crazy, lots of humor, absolutly not realistic and I think that both Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are good comic actors.