Tango & Cash

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

68
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 49 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 113114 113.1K

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Plot summary

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.


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December 23, 2012 at 09:41 PM

Top cast

Sylvester Stallone as Lt. Raymond Tango
Kurt Russell as Lt. Gabriel Cash
Teri Hatcher as Katherine 'Kiki' Tango
Clint Howard as Slinky
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1 hr 44 min
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1 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

If you really wanted to stare death in the eye, you shoulda gotten married.

Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell play polar opposite Los Angeles cops who are framed by an arch nemesis and forced to team up in order to clear their name.

Unashamedly macho and very much of its time, this is daft energetic fun that's full of octane inventive action and ever quotable one liners. Stallone is Tango, the smart dressed sophisticated policeman, Russel is Cash, the slobbish act first - ask questions later copper, both men very different but both excellent at their jobs.

Pic gets by mostly on the chemistry between Stallone and Russell, who put much zest into their respective characters bickering and bantering. Action is well put together by director Andrey Konchalovskiy, but unfortunately the final third of the piece starts to sag as our mismatched cops start to respect and befriend each other and the plot reaches the inevitable conclusion.

It doesn't help matters that Jack Palance's main villain is only a bit part player, or that his head henchman Requin (the usually ace Brion James) gives us a quite appalling British accent. Add in Teri Hatcher who is in it purely for dressage and as a cypher between the two boys, then it's a picture not without problems. Yet the script and star turns from the leading duo ensure this remains a favourite of many whom lapped it up back in the backend of the 1980s. 7/10

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10

Brash, noisy, lame-brained Hollywood action

Personally, I like my action films to be either serious or unintentionally funny (as is the case when it comes to a lot of Italian action films). Sometimes they make action films which are INTENTIONALLY funny, and then the trouble starts. TANGO & CASH is one of these films, packed with awful jokes and low brow buddy-buddy type humour which is set to appeal to the lowest of the low. If they'd had got rid of all this stupid humour I would have enjoyed the film more for what it really is, a standard and predictable action-fest packed with hundreds of explosions and all kinds of stunts.

It's a shame that this film is so disappointing, as visually its well made and looks very nice and colourful. There's a good supporting cast too; Jack Palance is wasted as the chief villain through a lack of screen time. Also, what the heck is it with his continuous smile? It looks like he can't take a thing seriously. Also appearing in a genuinely amusing role is the ever-dependable Brion James as a Cockney (!) villain who cuts throats with a straight-razor. James chews scenery with a hilarious accent and is one of the best things in this film. Teri Hatcher (before she was famous) is the love interest and is treated as a sex object throughout - it figures as she's cast as a stripper! Also look out for familiar faces in Michael J. Pollard, James Hong (typecast as Japanese villains forever) and Robert Z'Dar, the unforgettable face of the MANIAC COP.

Stallone and Russell are both okay in this movie and are physically in great shape, with lots of fights and action between them, but their roles don't exactly stretch the actors and this movie is far from either actor's best. Another thing I hated was the ending, which throws in tons of explosions and shooting and makes the whole thing look fake and stupid, going over the top big time. There is a limit to how many explosions you can have, guys! TANGO & CASH is a typical slick, noisy, lame brained, predictable Hollywood vehicle which passes the time but is easy to forget about afterwards, and it offers up nothing we haven't seen before.

Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 6 / 10

Despite a very problematic ending, Tango and Cash still has plenty to make it an at least enjoyable film

Tango and Cash is one of those films that people can get a huge amount of enjoyment out of when taking it for what it is, or there will be others who'll find it not to their taste. From personal taste, there are a number of shortcomings but I cannot bring myself to hate it.

Pros:

It's stylishly made, if very 80s, and competently directed, nothing comes over as amateurish. The soundtrack does pulsate with energy and is easy to remember, if a little intrusive in places(not that that is uncommon in action films). The script is snappy and delivered like dynamite, the banter between Stallone's Tango and Kurt Russell's Cash is a lot of fun. The story on the whole while very silly and predictable but it doesn't really ever become dull and it is easy to follow, the standout scenes being the opening, which is one of those scenes that sets things up so well it makes one excited for what will happen next and the brilliant prison escape, the prison scenes in general are among the better scenes in the film actually. The action, while very over-the-top, is decently edited, cool and endearingly kitsch without feeling too much. Sylvester Stallone is charismatic and effectively low-key and shows that he is at ease in the action scenes, his comic timing while much criticised in general is pretty good here, while Kurt Russell is a witty, soulful partner, the two of them being a well-matched pair. It is not everyday where you see Russell in drag, don't worry it is not as weird as it sounds.

Cons:

Tango and Cash does have problems. The biggest problem is that it falls apart in the final 10 minutes, an ending so disappointing that it's easy to bring the film down more than one notch. It loses the energy that the rest of the film has and it goes well overboard in the silliness factor, with the slapsticky final fight feeling out of kilter. The main villain Perrett's comeuppance is also very anti-climatically handled. Teri Hatcher is probably at her sexiest here but her acting feels vapid. More problematic are the villains, here are very stereotypically written(especially Perrett, the drugs baron stereotype has been done a number of times and nothing interesting is done here) and only Brion James, here looking as if he is having so much fun, is memorable. You'd think that Jack Palance, a master of suavity, deadpan and intimidating menace, would be, but here he gives one of his weakest performances but it is not helped by that he is very underused and that he is the most clichéd character in the whole film. Palance was a great actor, and excelled better than most in villain roles but this is a portrayal where he does try way too hard that he's almost pantomimic, it also manages to be quite bland compared to his usual standard. His henchmen are even more blandly written, and sees James Hong in a rare completely uninvolved performance.

All in all, won't work for some and it is a long way from flawless but still incredibly entertaining and has a good deal of charm. Don't expect sophistication, anything new or depth, you'll be disappointed. In its defence though Tango and Cash never strived to be that kind of film. But if you are looking for an enjoyable, switch-your-brain-off-at-the-door film, there is a good deal to like. 6/10 Bethany Cox

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