a5c7b9f00b Ray Hughes and Danny Costanzo are a pair of wisecracking Chicago cops. Julio Gonzales is a fast-rising drug kingpin. In an effort to bring down Gonzales, Danny and Ray unintentionally blow the lid off a long-running undercover operation which has been trying to crack Gonzales&#39;s drug ring. After getting chewed out by Captain Logan, Ray and Danny are forced to take a &quot;vacation&quot; and spend some time away from the force. To get away from the dreary Chicago winter, they go to Key West, Florida. They are taken in by the life of leisure, natural beauty, and hot women. They love the pace of life in a place where people stop and take time to watch the sunset each day. Danny comes up with the idea to retire from the force and buy a bar in Key West, and gets Ray to go along with the idea. Still, they don&#39;t feel right about retiring until they can nail Gonzales. Ray and Danny head back to Chicago for one last missionpart of the force so that they can retire with clear consciences. Ray and Danny are aiming for one final shot at Gonzales, one final showdown where they can bring Gonzales down. Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past. May I start off that Gregory and Billy really lacked chemistry that a buddy cop movie should have? It just didn&#39;t seem right and they couldn&#39;t really feed off each other. And for the most part you could only really laugh at Billy&#39;s jokes. Not to mention just how predictable this movie was. Because let&#39;s face it, you&#39;ve seen one buddy movie, you&#39;ve seen them all. But I would like to still say that there were some pretty funny moments in the movie. I especially loved when Greg and Billy took the villain&#39;s car and the villain calls the car phone and they just shrug it off. For some funny moments, I would recommend, but if you are very serious about films, you might want to skip this one.<br/><br/>5/10 This movie is from when real good, watchable movies were being made. One of my all-time favorites, but you really do have to be from that age group to appreciate. My younger friends just don&#39;t get it… A great, action/comedy, from 2 really good comedians of the time. Billy Crystal &amp; Gregory Hines make a very good duo, and the story line, while a bit predictable, provides for some very good action. Contains some exceptional one-liners from both main characters. Enough humor to keep you laughing, and enough action to make it interesting to watch. Someone called it an old-school version of &quot;The Other Guys&quot;. It&#39;s WAY better than that, but it&#39;s not a terrible comparison. The guy that plays their Captain (Carla&#39;s ex-husband on Cheers) could have been much better, but he did an adequate job,did the rest of the cast, backing up Crystal/Hines. Highly recommend! Running Scared's razor-crisp editing (by James Mitchell) shows that you can combine mayhem and laughs. But the action becomes huge, cartoony, out of scale, crushing the warmth Crystal and Hines have built up. And the movie is too long by about 15 minutes, a deadly thought for a comedy.
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