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Tango & Cash (1989)

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Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 33
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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

R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Comedy

Directed By: Albert Magnoli , Andrey Konchalovskiy

In Theaters: Dec 22, 1989 Wide

On DVD: Sep 30, 1997

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Sylvester Stallone
Ray Tango
Kurt Russell
Gabe Cash
Teri Hatcher
Kiki
Jack Palance
Yves Perret
Brion James
Courier-Requin
James Hong
Quan
Michael J. Pollard
Owen
Marc Alaimo
Lopez
Philip Tan
Gunman/Chinese Guy
Duane Allen
Guard
Lewis Arquette
Wyler
Roy Brocksmith
Federal Agent Davis
Andre Rosey Brown
Cash's Cellmate
Edward Bunker
Capt. Holmes
Michael Francis Clarke
Reporter
Dori Courtney
Dressing Room Girl
Ron Cummins
Customer
John Walter Davis
Slobber
Patricia Davis
Reporter
Ed de Fusco
Federal Agent
Salvador R. Espinoza
Weasel
Richard Fancy
Nolan
Jack Goode Jr.
Federal Agent
Clint Howard
Slinky
Michael Jeter
Skinner
Savely Kramarov
Car Owner
Tamara Landry
Girl in Bar
Geoffrey Lewis
Jerry Martinez
Santos
Leslie Morris
Hendricks
Glenn Morshower
Coworker
Lucia Neal
Dressing Room Girl
Phil Rubenstein
Sokowski
Bing Russell
Van Driver
Shabba-Doo
Dancer
Dale Swann
Captain
Alphonse V. Walter
Station Cop
Larry Charles White
Cop
Robert Z'Dar
Face
Paul Lewis
Customer
Robert David Armstrong
Club Doorman
David Byrd
Judge
Richard L. Duran
Prisoner
Anne Marie Gillis
Reporter
Kristen Hocking
Lynn
Larry Humberger
Federal Agent
Anna Joyner
Girl in Bar
Roxanne Kernohan
Dressing Room Girl
Susan Krebs
Prosecutor
David Lea
Sonny
Tammy Richardson
Reporter
Peter Stensland
Kagan
Elizabeth Sung
Interpreter
Martin Valinsky
Bailiff
Geoff Vanderstock
Federal Agent
Christopher Wolf
State Trooper
Mark Wood
Desk Cop
Donald Zinn
Guard
David Phillips
Inmate

Critic Reviews for Tango & Cash

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

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Variety Staff

Variety

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For all practical purposes, there is no plot.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

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

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Rita Kempley

Washington Post

Top Critic

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

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

A very smart 'dumb' movie.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

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Kirsty McNeill

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

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Time Out

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

October 6, 2005 Comment

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

An awful, smug, monster truck of a movie.

September 16, 2005 Comment

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

A fun, frantic two-hander

May 12, 2005 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

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

August 20, 2004 Comment

Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Think 'Lethal Weapon' in the closet . . .

May 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Gurus

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James O'Ehley

Movie Gurus Source: Movie Gurus

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

Brian De Guelle

Super Reviewer

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

Conner Rainwater

Super Reviewer

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