It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction.
Best Defense (1984)
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Reviews Counted:4
Fresh:0
Rotten:4
Average Rating:N/A
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Wylie Cooper (Dudley Moore) is an Army engineer who is convinced a new super tank he designed bears some faulty equipment. T.M. Landry (Eddie Murphy) is an Army soldier who tests Cooper's tank in a... Wylie Cooper (Dudley Moore) is an Army engineer who is convinced a new super tank he designed bears some faulty equipment. T.M. Landry (Eddie Murphy) is an Army soldier who tests Cooper's tank in a combat zone in Kuwait two years later. The action cuts back and forth between the past and present as Cooper rushes to fix the defective design before the tank is put into use, possibly saving the life of Landry--a man he will never even meet--sometime in the future. [More]
Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza
Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza, David Paymer
Director: Willard Huyck
Director: Willard Huyck
Screenwriter: Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
Producer: Gloria Katz
Composer: Patrick Williams
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Try as they may, neither the cast nor the filmmakers can cover up the fact that this movie, like Moore's prototype, is a dud.
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