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1988

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After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched up with .. Read more

Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross
Director	Walter Hill
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Red Heat

After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is considerably more relaxed. Most of the humour revolves around Danko's grumpy reaction to good ol' American capitalism, while Ridzik urges him to chill out. Red Heat is not bad as action comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go. Incidentally, Red Heat was the first American film allowed to shoot in Moscow's Red Square. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Starring	Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, Richard Bright
Director	Walter Hill
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 39 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 44 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Dubbed	German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1988 To Rent: DVD: 20 May 2002 Blu-ray: 28 Jun 2010

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- A partial return to form for slam-bang Hill, this is the 48 HRS formula crossed with Gorky Park. Unstoppable unorthodox... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14
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  A Classic Arnie Film
  
  One of Arnie's old film's but still a classic, this sets the tale as Arnie is a Russian cop who goes to the USA to track down the man that killed his ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Feb 2005 at 07:54
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  Dull but has its moments
  
  As a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and his at times hilarious one-liners i was looking forward to watching this, the one liners are there but couldnt get ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Aug 2011 at 16:32
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  Fantastic Buddy Cop Film
  
  i love buddy cop films like 48hrs and lethal weapon, and love 80's action movie as well. so the main concept of this film had already sold me on a watch, ... read more »
  
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  - 02 Aug 2010 at 18:24
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  Arnie And Belushi...COOL
  
  Good film,i think Arnie and Belushi work well off each other,but there are no hardcoded subs when they are talking in Russian,so you dont know whats being said ... read more »
  
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Neighbours from Hollywood
- 09 Nov 2004
A feud between neighbours James Belushi and Julie Newmar looks set to end in court. Belushi has accused Newmar, who played Catwoman in the 1960s Batman television series, of damaging his property. In a lawsuit he claimed the former super-villain had launched a campaign of harassment aimed at driving him from his Los Angeles home. Belushi starred in a number of films in the 1980s including K9 and Red Heat. He has since forged a successful television career. He claims Newmar also badmouthed him... Read more
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  After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to ...