Tango & Cash

1989
US
1h 44min
15

Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky, Albert Magnoli
Written by: Randy Feldman
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Teri Hatcher, Brion James
UK release: 22 December 1989

Awkward, awful and yet strangely enjoyable. Stallone and Russell are a pair of muscular, wise-cracking, tough cops who are framed by the local megalomaniac. In the first half they get landed in a comically unpleasant jail while the second half gets them into a confrontation involving earth-moving trucks and an entire arsenal of weaponry. Mindless escapism of the kind that a couple of five-year-olds might indulge in, though with less imagination and more props.