Whoopi Goldberg is at her sassy, funny best in this upbeat 1987 cop caper, playing a Los Angeles detective who takes no nonsense and is ready for anything the badass guys can dish out
Fatal Beauty (1987)
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 3
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg plays fast-talkin' L.A. narc Rita Rizzoli, who goes undercover to blow the lid off a local cocaine ring. The twist is that the stuff being pushed by these small-timers is... Whoopi Goldberg plays fast-talkin' L.A. narc Rita Rizzoli, who goes undercover to blow the lid off a local cocaine ring. The twist is that the stuff being pushed by these small-timers is contaminated and lethally poisonous. Of course, this doesn't stop them from taking their shot at the big leagues by continuing to sell the tainted narcotics. Rita finds the time to romance a white bodyguard hired to kill her, then turns the bad guys into so much Swiss cheese. [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades, Brad Dourif
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades, Brad Dourif
Director: Tom Holland
Director: Tom Holland
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Reviews for Fatal Beauty
The wisecracks and the swaggering are as unrelieved as the film's almost comically ecstatic gunplay. Someone must have figured audiences like things this way.
Whoopi's a cool lady, but she's done a lot of stunningly awful movies. This is (easily) one of the worst.
Tom Holland directed from a script and story credited to three individuals, anyone could have knocked this one out during coffee break.
Bloody, boring and pandering, is as poisonous as the drug trade it pretends to defame.
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