Review of Hudson Hawk (1991) by Tibor B — 25 Jun 2013

Hudson Hawk isn't the complete disaster critics at the time made out, but it is clearly an underdeveloped vanity project forced forward by Willis and producer Joel Silver. Fortunately all involved seem to be aware of the thin premise so the film is played as a complete tongue-in-cheek, anything goes caper.

It drags for this reason, it's not as entertaining or funny as it wants to be, or needs to be to work and there's next to no story. Michael Lehmann does his best to keep the film moving and the production values are quite good, there's clearly some money onscreen.

Willis just smirks his way through as usual, James Coburn shows up for some reason, whilst unfortunately so do Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard as a hugely irritating crime duo.