Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Plot synopsis:
In Texas, a man hears a news report about a new designer drug called Crystal Dream, highly addictive and administered by rubbing small amounts in the eyes. He leaves a woman he'd shacked up with and rides across the American Southwest region, avoiding major highways & staying on a route that runs parallel to the Mexican border. He arrives in Los Angeles and stops at a gas station convenience store to buy cigarettes. The store is being held up, but the man pays no attention and tries to buy his cigarettes anyway. When threatened by one of the robbers, he disarms and beats up the thug and his cohorts quite easily. When asked by the cashier what his name is, he replies "Harley Davidson" and leaves with one of the pistols used in the robbery, a Desert Eagle.Harley goes to a bar where he happens on an intense pool game between his best friend, The Marlboro Man, and a hulking man. Marlboro's opponent is convinced that Marlboro cheated to win and a fight breaks out. Marlboro is able to beat the man and sarcastically thanks his old friend for not helping.Harley and Marlboro go to their old haunt, the Rock N' Roll Bar & Grille, near Burbank. Harley finds out that the city of Burbank has been turned into a giant international airport. Inside, they find their old friends, still working at the bar and still running scams. Their biggest friend, Jack Daniels, works with Jimmy and takes falls in arm-wrestling matches to cheat contenders and bettors out of their money. Jack immediately starts a fight with Harley, who'd had an affair with Jack's then girlfriend, Lulu, now a singer in the bar and married to Jack. The bar is still run by the same man, whom everyone calls "Old Man", however, the bar has fallen on hard times and is being threatened with foreclosure by the Great Trust Bank, that wants to construct a skyscraper on the land. Jim tells them that Jack has been taking falls to raise enough money to save the bar for the Old Man. Harley and Marlboro both convince their old friends to rob an armored car belonging to Great Trust to get the funds to save the place.The next day the guys set up an elaborate system of construction detours for the armored car, leading it to a mostly-secluded side street, where they tie up the drivers and steal the sacks in the back. The load the sacks into a pickup truck waiting in the sewer line below the street. The guards warn them that they're in way over their heads. Just then a large limousine pulls up and several men dressed in black leather overcoats get out and begin firing on the robbers. They seem impervious to the shots fired back at them and continue a relentless assault, advancing steadily. Jack suddenly shows up, riding his own motorcycle; he removes the cap on the gas tank and jumps off, letting the cycle slide towards their attackers. He lights the line of fuel on fire, igniting the bike, however, the attackers simply jump over it and continue towards them. The gang manages to load the last of the loot into the truck and they escape. Later, while examining the bags they stole, they find small, clear blue bars instead of money; it is the illegal narcotic, Crystal Dream.The leader of the team of assassins, Alexander, meets with the CEO of the Great Trust Bank, Chance Wilder. Wilder inquires about those who stole his merchandise. Alexander believes them to be small-time crooks who stumbled upon a big score. Wilder orders Alexander to track them down and kill them and retrieve the drugs.That night, after flipping off a motorcycle cop and some reckless riding, Marlboro is pulled over. The cop turns out to be his former lover, Virginia. The two spend the night together and in the morning Marlboro finds out she's engaged. Harley shows up and takes Virginia out to breakfast. During their conversation, the subject of Crystal Dream comes up. Virginia tells Harley that it's 100% addictive and causes neurological damage and eventually death. When they return to Virginia's house, Marlboro is already up and repairing his boots with duct tape, fuming about Virginia's new marriage. He decides to steal her fiance's Harley-Davidson motorcycle.Harley and Marlboro go to the headquarters of the Great Trust and talk to Wilder via telephone. They demand $2.5 million for the dope they stole, plus one more dollar for a side bet between them. Wilder agrees to have someone meet them that night in the airplane graveyard for the exchange. Alexander shows up with the money and the transfer goes off without any problems. That night, while they hang out in the bar's back room celebrating, Marlboro is suspicious of the ease of the exchange. Suddenly, Alexander and his men show up. Watching through a one-way mirror, the Old Man tries to convince them that the gang isn't there. Their leader appears to walk away as if to leave and suddenly turns around and shoots the Old Man. They open fire on the room behind the mirror; Harley and Marlboro are the only ones who escape alive by jumping out the window; Jimmy, Jack and Jose are all killed.The two retreat to the nearby airport and hide in the baggage compartment of a plane. One of the mysterious assassins nearly finds them but they escape to Las Vegas. They check into an expensive hotel. However, they are tracked to Vegas by Alexander. The two escape to the hotel's roof and jump off into the swimming pool. Harley finds out that they've been tracked with a device hidden in the dollar coin given to them by Alexander. The two hop a freight train headed east after deactivating the tracker, but Marlboro leaves after telling Harley that they owe it to the dead friends that helped them to go back to LA and settle things. Harley refuses to go and Marlboro jumps off train. Harley later catches up with Marlboro and they form a plan to meet with Alexander, reactivating the tracker in the coin.Alexander traces them to the airplane graveyard, finding the briefcase that contained the money but only finding the dollar coin inside. However, he sights Harley and Marlboro nearby and a gunfight ensues. Marlboro is able to kill both of Alexander's two remaining men by hitting them in the head, however, Alexander catches Marlboro and holds him hostage. Harley, never a very good shot to begin with, tries to shoot Alexander and misses, hitting Marlboro. Harley finally summons up the aim to hit Alexander and he and Harley finally kill him.Alexander's helicopter pilot takes them to Chance Wilder's office. They give Wilder his money back and demand he change the lease on the Old Man's place. Wilder is unwilling to do so and orders his men to kill them when the pilot, paid off by Harley and Marlboro, appears hovering in his chopper outside. He opens fire on the office with the chopper's cannon, killing Wilder's thugs. Wilder insults Marlboro's dead father; Marlboro begins to beat him up until Wilder dangles out the window of his office, holding onto Marlboro's disintegrating cowboy boot. Harley helps him out, the boot comes apart and Wilder falls to the street.Marlboro and Harley part ways at a rodeo, where Marlboro is riding a bull. As Harley rides away, he picks up a beautiful hitchhiking woman.

Tags: cult, comedy

Review:
They also help each other regardless if it will cost their live because in their mind "It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool." (Harley Davidson) Of course this attitude brings them nothing but trouble but those two take it the macho-way and stand to whatever comes up.
Fortunately, the characterizations of the two leads rescue the film from banality.Harley (Mickey Rourke) and Marlboro (Don Johnson), swagger, posture, and strut their macho stuff, as you would expect, for two bikers.
It is this textured characterization of Harley and Marlboro that makes the film worth watching, especially in the first twenty-five minutes, before the action plot interferes.The is a working man's movie ...
The best approach to this film is to ignore the silly action plot, and focus instead on Harley and Marlboro, and their unorthodox outlook on life..
Great Cheesy Fun. Good buddy movies don't have to have to seem real.
I hope Mickey doesn't truly feel like a sell out for this movie because it was in fact a very well done movie and something that was a great deal of fun for many people that were even already fans from as far back as 9.5 weeks..
Mickey Rourke plays Harley, a biker cowboy on a steel horse who makes his way back to a slightly futuristic LA to reconnect with his old barfly friends, including the rodeo riding Marlboro Man (Don Johnson).
Two men, Harley Davidson and his partner the Marlboro Man, (Mickey Rourke & Don Johnson) reunite after a couple of year absence and discover their old life time mentor, (Julius Harris) is being evicted from a special nightclub.
Just like in Charley Varrick it turns out to be a syndicate front that not only launders money, but keeps the drugs on premises including a new designer drug that these two walk off with the prototype.I will say that Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson have the same easy going chemistry that Paul Newman and Robert Redford had.
Is this one of the last great B Movies to made and they say that this didn't do anything good for Mickey Rourke's career.
Harley goes back to his hometown after two years to see his best friend The Marlboro Man  played by Don Johnson and to see the place where he grew up is under the threat of closure and has to come up with $2 million to save it.
He rustles up all his old pals including the Marlboro Man to rob the bank and of course it goes al horribly wrong and realise the people they stole from are actually the people they need to pay the $2 million dollars to, so it doesn't get much simpler than that really.You have your thrills and chills during the movie but the characters that are brought to life through Rourke and Johnson make this film all the worth while as there are some incredible exciting action sequences.
I think it is worthy of that title but others won't and never will but this is a good story of friendship and is a lot better than most B-movies which come your way these days..
Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson are Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man both of them find themselves hunted by a group of thugs sent by a drug dealer who uses his banking business as a front for selling the new drug in this standard action movie which has only a few noteworthy actionscenes as well as the chemistry between Johnson and Rourke to recommend it..
Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke in a buddy-biker-futuristic-action movie, what more do you need?..
There's a couple of movies in my library that every now and then I just want to unwind and turn my brain off for awhile and "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" is defiantly one of my top choices, its a hard to explain buddy-biker-futuristic-action movie, that I don't think much people get or got, even back in 1991.
In a version of "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" made for the nineties, this buddy-movie finds Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson in some of their most unwatchable work.
The attempted character-depth conversations between Harley and the Marlboro Man atop a billboard and elsewhere are boring and cheesy, while the action takes up the rest of the film.
Don Johnson should be ashamed, Mickey Rourke probably said, "another lousy acting performance, nothing new for me." The action scenes were pitifully set up looking; a 5 year old couldn't get excited over this boring humdrum silliness.
Harley (Mickey Rourke) is a ex-druggie riding motorcycle man, who comes to L.A. to visit his long time cowboy buddy (Don Johnson).
Two 80's stars Mickey Rourke (Harley Davidson) and Don Johnson (Marlboro Man)live in 96 in Burbank, Los Angeles.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is an American movie with two greats (and dangerous) American brands as moderns hero's.
Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and Marlboro (Don Johnson) along with their pals Jimmy, Jose and Jack Daniels rob a bank transport carrying two and a half million dollars to save the local bar they frequent from closing down.
The sole reason why I rented it.After seeing it, I found myself to find it a great movie, fairly good screenplay by the actors, but a rather bad script (typical late 80's, early 90's Rambo-like).
I watched Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man recently and I figured it would be some corny macho movie but as it turns out, it happens to be a great movie.
Biker Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) joins up with his cowboy friend Robert Lee Anderson aka The Marlboro Man (Don Johnson).
This is a live-action cartoon; an homage to the classic oater of yesteryear that absolutely refuses to take itself seriously; a fun frantic buddy flick replete with motorcycles, guns, an explosion or two, a disgraced former Miss America, an army of villains gunning for our heroes, and a sleazy, wealthy, powerfully-connected bad guy directing the nefarious doings from the safety of his well-secured office.
The opening scene with Mickey Rourke (aka Harley Davidson) getting on his cool biker gear and leaving his naked lady in bed, all to the tune of "Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi makes you fall in love with a different kind of life.
Probably the abandoned airfield is a symbol of the decrepitude of the biker era that was once a dream to be attained for many.The end of the film where Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) leaves his long life friend Marlboro Man (Don Johnson) to live a new life picks up a beautiful woman considered a Biker woman who would be bored by a mundane life and the myth of the biker picking up women is a cliché that is still in the dreams of anyone dreaming of becoming a biker and the freedom associated to this world..
This was a very unlikeable movie and despite not having seen this rubbish in over 20 years, I have never forgotten how bad the movie was.Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson play (and infamously named) Harley Davidson, and The Marlboro Man, two unlikeable losers who set out to save their friend's bar by robbing banks and armoured cars, and also uncover the fictional drug named "Crystal Dream".
The dialogue is atrocious, and all the action scenes are poorly executed and unrealistic.I have nothing against Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, but I wish that they could have teamed up in a better movie.
Shortly after, though, they discover they're being relentlessly hunted down by those they have stolen from and go to ever further lengths to evade capture, even jumping from a ridiculous height into a body of water Nope, we're not talking Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, we're talking Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, the palest of imitations.Actually, that's not quite true: this movie is more of a rip-off than an imitation.
Actually what I wrote about the lack of law in the film isn't quite true - there's some love interest for Fag in the shapely form of a policewoman (instead of a teacher), who is getting a little tired of his wandering ways, which was presumably an attempt on the part of the writers to inject a little pathos into the proceedings.I felt quite sorry for Mickey Rourke (Bike) and Don Johnson (Fag) here.
You can now breath a sigh of relief and sit back and enjoy the show knowing it's commercial free.For some reason the 1991 movie starts on July 4, 1996, five years into the future, as Harley, Mickey Rourke, leaves his home in Texas and drives on his Harley to L.A to meet his long-time friend The bronco busting Marlboro Man,Don Johnson, who's hustling for easy money at LA pool halls.
Julius signed a 30 year lease in June 1966 for $350.00 a month that ends in five days with the rent going up, O' the Hmanity, to an insane and unreachable $41,666.67 a month!Harley & The Marlboro Man coming to the conclusion that the only way to get the cash, a cool 2.5 million to save the bar and grill,is to rob the bank who owns the property.
THat leads to a deadly shootout with a group of bank security men headed by zonked-out and zombie-looking Alexander, Daniel Baldwin, wearing bullet-proof overcoats.The movie gets even better, or worse, when it turns out that the money that Harley and the Marlboro Man though that they took from the bank armored car was the deadly drug Crystal Dream!
Like the bank president Chance Wilden, Tom Sizemore,told Harley & Marlboro Man at the end of the movie: "I make $500,000.00 a year as a banker but 15 million as a drug dealer"."Harley Davison and the Marlboro Man" limps along with the two anti-heroes being chased with a secret transmitter, planted in a silver dollar, exposing where they are, all over the south by Alexander and his band of black overcoat assassins.
Mickey Rourke plays Harley Davidson and Don Johnson plays the Marlboro Man, two pals who along with some other solid citizens rob some bad guys out of a lot of money.
There ARE great lines in it, and both Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson give very likable performances.Some thing don't work so well, such as the Bon Jovi intro song, but the action is cool, the villains entertaining in their wickedness(Tom Sizemore is great) and the screen chemistry between Rourke and Johsson is very comical.I would recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys action movies that do not take themselves too seriously.
Don Johnson plays a great role as the Marlboro Man and this is one of the only times I am ever going to say this but Mickey Rourke actually looked like a decent actor in this one as Harley Davidson.
Now actually, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man wasn't at all a bad movie, it's better than most I would say.
It's actually a cool action movie and has a decent story despite it's unusual title.Harley Davidson and Marlboro are buddies way back, together they ride their motorcycles on a care free life.
Harley and Marlboro decide to rob the very bank that is taking the bar away with some of their friends, they think they got away with it when they do, but it turns out that the truck they stole that they thought had the money has drugs instead.
So they make a deal with the evil guy from the bank and get the money for the drugs; they just did one thing wrong, they trust the evil super duper bad guy too well.Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is good cheesy fun that was kinda fun to watch, sometimes you need the typical and predictable action movie that just has the great exciting scenes to make you at least be entertained.
I think I would recommend Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man for those who just want entertainment, it's a fun action movie.5/10.
It's reasonably well made, has a great cast of actors who all perform admirably, and features clever dialog that surpasses Tarantino's at times.Compared to flicks like "The Wild Bunch" or "Gone With the Wind" Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man might come up a little short.
I really love to know what were the masterminds behind this movie thinking, its so bad its good.
But as i saw it in my early twenties i saw how unrealistic it actually was still it was enjoyable, i mean even if Mikey Rourk said he made this for money you can tell he was having fun with his character, i don't see the point of the Marboro man riding a motorcycle but hey there few little of logic in this film for that.
This movie has been knocked for ages, but if you sit down kick back and relax this is the movie for you, its a movie for a warm Saturday night, with a couple of beers, and just watch the action as Don Johnson & Mickey Rourke have fun with this movie, there is enough laughs and a huge amount of action to satisfy anyone, who enjoys a movie where you don't have to think about every detail for the length of the film.With names like Harley Davidson,Marlbro, Jack Daniels & Virginia Slims you know this is not a serious movie but one to be enjoyed for what it is.A young Tia Carrere has a small bit part in the movie as well.But for those who love action, well he we have a movie to be enjoyed.
This is a cool buddy-flick with enough action for anyone who likes hard drinking, two fisted brawling, Harley-Davidsons, and slick gunfights with big guns (and helicopters).
This movie ranks up there with the likes of "Road House" and "They Live" as one of those special films that isn't very good, yet is strangely captivating and impossible to turn away from once started.
This scene alone makes this movie required viewing for anyone who even remotely likes action or motorcycle films.
Good actors (probably 1 of the few movies i like of Don Johnson & Mickey Rourke), great dialogues, beautiful ladies (maybe 2 few), lotta axion !!!
"Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man" is a very super movie about 2 friends trying to help a friend not to lose his bar.This movie wasn't given enough credit.The stars of the film help make the movie great,a real great story,and lots of action too.Harley Davidson,played superbly by Mickey Rourke(Body Heat,9 1/2 Weeks and Year Of The Dragon,and the Marlboro Man,who's real name is Robert Anderson,played by the great Don Johnson(Miami Vice and Nash Bridges),are 2 friends who are trying to save a friends bar from being taken away from him by the bank,Mr Jiles,played by Julius Harris(Darkman,My Chauffeur,and Going Berserk),Jimmy Jiles,played by Giancarlo Esposito(Taps,Maximum Overdrive,and Homicide:Life On The Streets),they need 2 1/2 million dollars to re-lease the bar.The late Big John Stud(WWF) is the son-in-law,Jack Daniels,and Lulu,played by former Miss America Vanessa Williams,is also part of their family.Virginia Slim,played by the beautiful Chelsea Field(The Last Boy Scout,The Birds II:Land's End,and Skin Deep),is the former girlfriend of the Marlboro Man who he goes to see,but tells him she is getting married.Harley makes a plan to rob the bank that is strong arming the Jiles family,they go ahead with the plan,but are in way over their head's,they find the truck is full of a designer drug called "Crystal Dream".Things get worse for Harley and Marlboro as they deal with the drug dealer,Chance Wilder,played by Tom Sizemore(Natural Born Killers,Saving Private Ryan,and True Romance),is the bank president who is running the drugs.Alexander,played by Daniel Baldwin(Knight Moves,Vampires,and Homicide:Life On The Street)is the leader of the goons in a bullet proof jackets,kill Jimmy Jiles,his dad and Jack Daniels,Harley And The Marlboro Man get away,but want to make things right.The showdown at the airplane graveyard is a great scene,Harley Davidson,who can't shoot a gun great,does make his shot,,literally,and when they deal with Chance Wilder.This movie really rocks,the heroes in the movie are what I consider true Americans,they haven't sold out to corporate B.S. and they live their days by their own rules,and live their days one day at a time.The supporting cast include Kelly Hu as the gas station clerk,Tia Carrere(Wayne's World 1 and 2),Branscombe Richmond(The Kentucky Fried Movie,Star Trek III,and the TV series "Renegade)as the Indian in the bar that the Marlboro Man fights,Eloy Casados(Born in East L.A.,The Best Of Times,and Hollywood Homicide)as Jose,who is a deaf-mute and a friend of the Jiles family and Harley and Marlboro.I give this film 2 thumbs up and 10/10 stars..
In that sense, it reminded me a whole lot of "Road House" - Good, cheesy fun.It takes a special kind of skill to deliver what might seem risible dialogue in a deadpan way, and both Rourke and Johnson have it, which makes this film a really enjoyable experience, if by no means a masterpiece..
Without him in one of the two main roles, HDAMM would have been crap.As a goofy comedy, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) is absolutely delicious; this could have been a good concept for a TV series about a tandem of bums who .HARLEY  is nothing for Mickey to be ashamed about .He did far worse movies.It came the next year after the severely, drearily underrated Desperate Hours (1990).
Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and the Malboro Man (Don Johnson, hubba!
Besides having a title longer than the movie itself, "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" also has a bit of a nostalgic value to me.
I remember watching it for the first time some ten or fifteen years ago, after reading about it in a martial arts magazine, if memory serves.Plot outline - Biker Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke), aside with the bike-riding rodeo cowboy Marlboro Man (Don Johnson) and a few other small time crooks robs a money transport, which turns out to be a big mistake when they find out that they got more than they bargained for.
I don't watch an action movie and then complain that it wasn't like any good drama or thriller.I give it 6 out of 10 bullets.