Too many fans seem to be blown away

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Oh, its not very good, but its also not so bad. Yes, entertaining, no not really funny or exciting though and its billed as an action/comedy. The movie is full of skilled actors and Michael J. Fox, that formula has worked in the past, hey maybe it even worked this time around but don't ask me, or I guess you are kinda asking hence the review. John Badham is not a good director, he tells stories poorly. With the movie The Hard Way, Badham is given a story that has no life, he tells a crap story and he tells that crap story for crap. Every joke is telegraphed long before it plays out, no characters are ever in any real danger, and no words spoken are very memorable. Hey, The Hard Way is better than Lethal Weapon 3, or The Last Action Hero, or Red Dawn both original and the remake. That's gotta count for something right?

Nick Lang is a famous actor, well know for his action movies.For the next film he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his roll.Thus he teams up with the reluctant N.Y. cop John Moss.Not only does he have to put up with Nick who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a cold-blooded murderer...Another John Badham movie that deserves more recognition for it's beautiful set pieces and wonderful non CGI stunts and explosions.Fox and Woods are great (if a little too profane) as the mismatched duo who never get on despite their similarities. Woods Moss is the typical eighties cliché of a cop, eating bad food, smoking, swearing and drinking, but has a heart of gold and a woman who loves him.But the good spin on this sub genre is the fact that Fox is playing a movie star pretending to be a cop, in order to grab the role of a cop. This would have been genius all on its own, but then add Lang as a psycho serial killer, you have something really special on your hands.The only problem with the film is that it's a little too dark to be an out and out comedy, which the trailers depicted it as, and a little too corny to be an out and out action movie, so it's stuck in the middle of a delicious limbo, which Badham makes the most of.The performances are wonderful, even if Fox starts to grate as the whiney star, and the supporting cast are fantastic.It's a shame that this movie hasn't had more recognition, it's hardly ever been on TV in England (In the last 5 years not once) and not many people have heard of it, which is a shame, as it's a delightful movie.

Good action-comedy from veteran director John Badham, a man who usually delivers. James Woods and Michael J. Fox are in good form as angry cop and spoiled movie star respectively.Nick Lang (Fox) decides he wants to do serious movie roles, and works side by side with cop Woods to try and get a feel for life as a New York cop. The pair work very well together (surprisingly), and there are some genuinely funny moments, including some great one-liners and sarcastic humour from James Woods."The Hard Way" never gets too serious, and is good, if light, entertainment.Friday, June 28, 1991 - Greater Union Melbourne

The Hard Way is an entertaining Cop Comedy that was mentioned on the Simpsons season 5 Episode Homer and Apu. James Woods looks convincing as a tough New York City Police Lieutenant. There is a scene in the film involving heights and a billboard with the picture of Michael J Fox on it. President Jack Kennedys artificial Intelligence computer suggested or ordered that I write about the big Crunch. He is either talking about my Fathers Chinese Intelligence nickname or Closed Universes. As I said before, there is dark matter at the outside of our universe left over from previous big bangs that slows expanding matter and causes a big crunch eventually. The Care Rank Ki Aliens, Et Aliens created by the Care Rank Ki, and Humans Created by the Care Rank Ki and Et Aliens have been through several big bangs and big crunches with their moonfleets and movable planets and are tens of billions of years old at least. Thanks to Faster than light subatomic particles called rollys that travel back through time, Our Creators know the future at least thousands of years ahead of time using either particle accelerators, tokamak fusion reactors or breeder fission reactors or Candu fission reactors.The other movies of Michael J Fox and James Woods are worth watching as well.