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
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01/09/09
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... [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades, Brad Dourif
Director: Tom Holland
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01/26/06
A lackluster Beverly Hills Cop rip-off.
09/28/05
No review available.
07/04/05
No review available.
07/21/03
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
11/25/02
So-so Whoopi comedy-thriller. There are worse things and she's made some of them.
11/25/02
Whoopi's a cool lady, but she's done a lot of stunningly awful movies. This is (easily) one of the worst.
07/29/02
Tom Holland directed from a script and story credited to three individuals, anyone could have knocked this one out during coffee break.
01/01/00
Top CriticBloody, boring and pandering, is as poisonous as the drug trade it pretends to defame.
01/01/00
Top CriticGoldberg's best work since The Color Purple.
01/01/00
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