Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia

Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia).

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R, 121 min.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Release Date: December 7, 1990

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DVD Release Date: September 2, 2003

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  • May 7, 2008
    A fantastic new breed of buddy cop movie in the vein of 48 Hours. A fast, stylish, action-packed and furiously funny thriller. Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen are teriffic together, showing great chemistry with a grizzeled old veteran and a conflicted and emotionally struggling ...( read more)rookie.
  • April 13, 2008
    Raul Julia as a German? Clint Eastwood gets raped?
  • August 18, 2007
    Nice sountrack, i'm sure there was a movie in there too...somewhere
  • January 25, 2007
    decent flick
  • December 31, 2006
    Good Flick, better than average.
  • October 12, 2009
    not as good as it once was.
  • June 23, 2009
    Worth checking out if only for the car stunts. Otherwise, the plot is horribly derivative of a hundred other action buddy-cop movies. Eastwood is the mentor and Sheen is the apprentice. Enough said.
  • June 14, 2009
    Nearly 20 years later, Charlie Sheen hasn't changed a bit. Mr. Eastwood, on the other hand...

    Movie was a little slow, but I didn't feel like I needed to turn it off.
  • June 3, 2009
    Considering I don't much like Clint Eastwood, it's a good movie.
  • May 7, 2009
    men men men, manly men men me

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