Red Heat (1988)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.6/10   

Director:

Walter Hill

Escritores (WGA):

Walter Hill (story)
Harry Kleiner (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 junio 1988 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Crimen | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners.

Plot:

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Drug Dealer | Chicago Illinois | Baseball Bat | Shootout

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Routine 1980's era buddy-cop movie enlivened by good cast.

Reparto

Arnold Schwarzenegger	...	Capt. Ivan Danko
James Belushi	...	Det. Sgt. Art Ridzik
Peter Boyle	...	Cmdr. Lou Donnelly
Ed O'Ross	...	Viktor 'Rosta' Rostavili
Laurence Fishburne	...	Lt. Charlie Stobbs (as Larry Fishburne)
Gina Gershon	...	Catherine 'Cat' Manzetti
Richard Bright	...	Det. Sgt. Gallagher
J.W. Smith	...	Salim
Brent Jennings	...	Abdul Elijah
Gretchen Palmer	...	Hooker
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Night Clerk
Mike Hagerty	...	Pat Nunn (as Michael Hagerty)
Brion James	...	Streak
Gloria Delaney	...	Intern
Peter Jason	...	TV Announcer

También conocida como:

Danko: Calor rojo (Spain) [es]
Infierno rojo (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

104 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Ruso

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2004) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (Certificate #29177) | West Germany:18 | Germany:Película restringida en Alemania

Locaciones de Filmación:

Budapest, Hungary

Compañía:

Carolco Pictures

Trivialidades:

The drug dealer wearing a white suit called 'Lupo' that Rostavili (Ed O'Ross) meets outside the bus station is the same 'Lupo' that appears in Extreme Prejudice (1987) (also played there by Luis Contreras). He appears at the end after Nick Nolte has shot Powers Boothe, and tells him "now you get to wear the white suit".

Errores:

Errores Reales: Rostavili, a Georgian, is regularly identified by the Americans as a Russian - a common mistake during the existence of the Soviet Union.

Citas:

Art Ritzik: I'm gonna get us something from all four food groups: hamburgers, french fries, coffee and doughnuts.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier' (2004) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

STRANGER ON THE SHORE

Routine 1980's era buddy-cop movie enlivened by good cast.

The Governator plays Captain Ivan Danko, a humorless and utterly stiff Russian cop who tracks ultra-sleazy / nasty Georgian drug dealer Viktor Rosta (Ed O'Ross) to Chicago, where local detective Art Ridzik (James Belushi), a crass, wisecracking jerk is stuck with the job of playing babysitter to Danko while he attempts to escort Rosta back to Russia.

There are enough elements here that are too familiar to make the film itself more than ordinary. There's the fish-out-of-water concept, the mismatched-partners concept, the culture clash concept, and so on. It's true that the two protagonists are *not* terribly likable, but at least they do manage to get some laughs, and Schwarzenegger and Belushi do have an adequate amount of odd-couple chemistry.

It's all entertaining enough; director Walter Hill has been an action expert for about three decades now and at least he creates some competently staged fights and chase scenes. The supporting cast includes Peter Boyle, Belushi's gruff boss who isn't quite the stereotypical angry, yelling boss common to action films. Larry Fishburne is good as a co-worker of Belushi's who dislikes him intensely. Gina Gershon has one of her earliest roles as the hapless dance instructor who gets in over her head by agreeing to marry Rosta. Other familiar faces include some Walter Hill regulars (like Brion James and Peter Jason), as well as Brent Jennings (great in a brief cameo as a drug kingpin determined to strike back at white men by getting them all hooked on drugs), Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kurt Fuller, etc.

This film does have the distinction of having scenes that were actually filmed on location in Russia, which is a little bit of a bonus. Mostly, I felt it was rather standard action fare, despite the assets it did have. One lasting impact was the fact that O'Ross's performance as the villain would often get him typecast as Russian characters from that point on.

7/10