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Tango & Cash (1989)

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Average Rating: 4.3/10
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Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Gabriel Cash, another Los Angeles narcotics cop who has long, disheveled blonde hair and dresses in worn-out sweatshirts. Together, Tango and Cash are the two best narcs in LA, which causes drug baron

Sep 30, 1997

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (20) | DVD (7)

A mindless buddy cop pic, loaded with nonstop action that's played mostly for laughs and delivers too few of them.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (2)
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For all practical purposes, there is no plot.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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More like My Beautiful Laundrette in the closet than it is a bad ripoff of Lethal Weapon.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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A bizarrely appealing movie, Tango & Cash is the essence of camp: it's bad and knows it's bad, so therefore, it's...good? [Blu-ray]

May 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comments (2)

A very smart 'dumb' movie.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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Stallone and Russell play well off each other, and with Palance lurking in the background, this buddy-breakout never loses its way.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

What makes this shoot-'em-up nonsense surprisingly watchable is Randy Feldman's rapid-fire dialogue, which constantly undercuts the macho posturings while parodying Stallone's screen image.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Full of stupid A-Team-style action. A forerunner of today's braindead action films.

October 6, 2005 Comment
Fantastica Daily

An awful, smug, monster truck of a movie.

September 16, 2005 Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

A fun, frantic two-hander

May 12, 2005 Comment
Moviehole

A much tighter and harder-hitting action flick than you might expect.

August 20, 2004 Comment
New Times

Think 'Lethal Weapon' in the closet . . .

May 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Gurus | Comment

Is schlock spelled with an 'S-C-H' or a simple 'S-H'?

October 6, 2003 Comment
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Late 80's chesse feast. Great fun all around.

May 25, 2010
briandeguelle

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It's a completely outrageous buddy cop movie that throws its characters in the oddest places. It goes from a chaotic, futuristic prison to a monster truck derby. What makes it fun is Kurt Russel and Sly Stone being a hilarious team. You have to enjoy all the corny jokes and cliches because it's all in good fun. This is

November 18, 2009
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