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Tango & Cash
Sunday night and I’ve worked mothers days cooking down the road for so many tables it’s insanity, I’m thinking “didn’t these people get this over at brunch commmme on”!
This has been done after a heavy Saturday night.
I get home and my girlfriend is on the phone her mother and she’s sounding talkative. I scanned the channels and a film was on that made me forget the stress or cooking for 60 people with one other chef over two hours.
The film was Tango and Cash.
Yes Tango and Cash
Sylvester Stallion as uptown suavely dressed Ray Tango. He’s smooth and ice cold balls as big as the Easter Island statues; I mean he fires at a petrol tanker after it’s proved there is petrol in it. Tango is so kick arse and so sure that there is cocaine on board that he opens fire on the taker. And then, yes, it snows cocaine.
Kurt Russell (since fallen to near the bottom of the ladder) plays Gabriel Cash, downtown trash cop. He goes to work on the street wearing dirty jean and ripped sweat shirts, he’s ghetto, and he’s down with the street.
Both Tango and Cash know of each other as they are both considered the two best cops in the city. Having massive egos on them both they just can’t stand the thought on the other bettering the them. Through some events they are both framed for murder by bad guy and Ripples front man, a man who cut a deal with the devil that allows him to smoke forever and not lose any part of his body, Jack Palance.
Escape, investigate, interrogate, and set the record straight and we have the rest of the plot.
Ok Tango & Cash isn’t a classic action film, it’s in The Last Boy Scot league but the script I think is awesome. Late 80’s Lethal Weapon rip off could be said but still I find highly entertaining. The prison scenes and escape is 80’s action at its best.
So it was blissful to fire gaze at this cheesy flick, winding down from my hectic night with this beautifully brainless action film.
Defiantly one for the ten dollars for five DVD rentals.
6.5/10
