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The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 18

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60

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Producer Joel Silver, director Tony Scott, and screenwriters Shane Black and Greg Hicks team up for this gridiron-set action thriller. Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-line Secret Service agent but has since become an alcoholic, flea-bag detective. While performing the chores of a two-bit shamus, he discovers his wife Sarah (Chelsea Field) is having an affair with his best friend. Joe is hired to protect Cory (Halle Berry), a stripper who has been getting death

Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

May 26, 1998

Warner Home Video

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Critic Reviews for The Last Boy Scout

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (19) | DVD (4)

The filmic equivalent of a hate crime.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Strictly for viewers who don't want surprises, just a laundry list of buddyisms.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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The movie has a lot of laughs, its action sequences are thrilling, its surprises are startling, and it shows a real ingenuity in the ways by which it gets Willis into, and out of, trouble.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment (1)
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Everything seems mechanical, forced and contrived.

January 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A buddy movie where everyone gets shot or blown up. The usual. (Blu-ray Double Feature Edition)

July 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

...formulaic from start to finish.

July 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

The apotheosis of the modern interracial-buddy action film genre.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment (1)
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

A slick, big-budget exploitation movie that's preposterous, foul-mouthed and gratuitously violent, but also a great deal of fun.

January 25, 2006 Comment
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

Ludicrous but undeniably fun, hard-core action

June 21, 2005 Comment
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

Overblown rubbish, with nothing to hang on to save the opening football field scene

December 22, 2003 Comment
Gabe Leibowitz
eCinemaCenter.com
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I love Bruce Willis but why did I waste my life watching this terrible movie.

December 7, 2011
purplemegan
Megan S

Super Reviewer

A ridiculously cool buddy action movie that almost makes it to Lethal Weapon status. This is way more comedy based, but it has enough action to go around as well. Bruce Willis is perfect in these types of roles, it doesn't even seem like he has to try in order to nail the character. While Damon Wayans isn't perfect,

February 2, 2011
ythelastman89
Conner Rainwater

Super Reviewer

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    1. Joe Hallenbeck: Go fuck yourself.
    – Submitted by Adrian G (3 months ago)

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