![]() Really, the movie is a plain old buddy flick. This is one reason I like this movie, though deconstructing this choice will make your head spin – is the director being deep, or is it just a stupid trick? OK, it's a stupid trick, but I still clap like kid in the monkey house every time. Heck, even Marlboro's ex-girlfriend is named Virginia. Most everyone in the movie is named after a product. I should probably explain the movie's one truly odd convention before I move along. That plot's older than I am), our heroes (Don Johnson as Marlboro and Mickey Rourke as Harley) from the title are starting to feel obsolete. ![]() But time is marching on and while society, as a whole, hasn't changed much (the whole movie revolves around the bad guys trying to buy and sell drugs. No rocket cars, no aliens, not even brain-recording devices (like in Strange Days) or clever guns. People are going about their business exactly as we are today. It's the near future (1996), or at least it was back when the movie came out (1991) and really, it's just the same song, different year. Remember, kinda OK can still be pretty entertaining. As a movie it doesn't break new ground or experiment, but you take comfort in its movie-ness. A movie that sits right in the middle of the spectrum – it is not a masterpiece, but you can see yourself watching it on a rainy day with nothing else to do. But can you navigate that fine line down the middle, the one that separates "meh" from the "s'alright"? There's always trial and error, but I'll share one of my comfort food movies to give you a head start – the marquee straining Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Others need no warning – you know there's no good reason to see Double Team. There are some films that are just a given – Diner for example, is a film you should probably see at least once before you try and tell people you're a big fan of movies. After watching Mickey Rourke in Sin City, I'm guessing some of you will be curious about other movies the guy in the Marv make-up has done. When the going gets tough.the tough take the law into their own hands.
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