Guns are
meant to be shot Harley, not thrown!”
It’s a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid rip-off, even the title suggests such.
The dialogue and acting are not very good, the villains are not cool or
scary, and the story is kinda basic. But
I do enjoy watching “Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man”.
What mostly
makes the movie worth watching, or what appealed to me and my brother when we
used to rent it all the time as kids was the two leads Don Johnson as Marlboro
and Mickey Rourke as Harley. Their
banter made the film watchable, that and the ‘midnight movie’ feel of the whole
thing.
The pair
along with some friends pull an armored car heist that goes bad when they
discover they boosted the latest illegal drug instead of cash. Then a thin Tom Sizemore and slightly thinner
Daniel Baldwin go after them and basically try to shoot them a lot. Watching it now I do get the feeling that
Rourke was trying too hard to be stoic and Johnson was trying too hard to be
funny. It’s a lot less endearing now twelve
years later, but I still like most of Johnson’s performance.
Again it’s
by no means a great movie but it’s fun for late night watching, which not surprisingly
is how I’ve watched it the past couple of times. That being said I think I’ve exhausted my
viewing experience on this non-classic, and I’ll probably never watch it again. Thanks for the memories guys.
--Robert L.
Castillo
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