The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

  • 44% of critics liked it
    (32 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (57,944 ratings)

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… More

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By
Tony Scott
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Dec 13, 1991 Wide
On DVD
May 26, 1998
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    The filmic equivalent of a hate crime.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    Strictly for viewers who don't want surprises, just a laundry list of buddyisms.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Everything seems mechanical, forced and contrived.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Megan S


    I love Bruce Willis but why did I waste my life watching this terrible movie.

  • Conner R


    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… More

  • Anthony L


    I think it is somewhat unfair to just pass this off as another dumb fun shoot em' up. It's script is brilliant, Shane Black is a brilliant writer too, and this film is very funny but it certainly doesn't lack the all important occasional (and appropriate) exploding head… More

  • Tsubaki S


    "Shit, we're bein' beat up by the inventor of Scrabble."

  • Tim S


    Say what you will about Tony Scott. The man gets his hands on some high octane material. This time around it's just as funny as it is action-driven. Well worth your time.

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