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    Red Heat (1988)

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    Arnold Schwarzenegger is a big, dopey Soviet cop who treks from Moscow to Chicago to round up a Russian drug dealer.

    It’s basically 48 Hours (1982) with Arnold in the weary, straight-faced Nick Nolte role and Jim Belushi replacing Eddie Murphy as his wisecracking sidekick, who calls the Commie juggernaut “Gumby.”

    They run around breaking rules and wrecking the Chicago transit system, to the kind of soundtrack where every sock on the jaw is accompanied by what sounds like a ten-ton sack of cement thrown from a twenty-storey window.

    There’s a definite rhythm:  Joke. Bones crack. Joke. Blood spurts. Joke. Glass shatters. Joke. A lot of people get maimed, chopped, machine-gunned and blown away before the fat lady sings.

    For two-fisted philosophy, the incredible hulk from Red Square says he cleans up the mess back home by simply lining up all the drug dealers and junkies and shooting them in the back of the head.

    Mr Belushi says it wouldn’t work in America – the politicians wouldn’t go for it.

    Mr Schwarzenegger makes a small wrinkle in the meadow between his eyes that passes for acting and says: “Shoot them first!”

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    Ivan Danko
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Art Ridzik
    James Belushi
    Lou Donnelly
    Peter Boyle
    Viktor Rostavili
    Ed O’Ross
    Lt. Stobbs
    Laurence Fishburne
    Cat Manzetti
    Gina Gershon
    Sgt. Gallagher
    Richard Bright
    Salim
    J.W. Smith
    Abdul Elijah
    Brent Jennings
    Pat Nunn
    Mike Hagerty
    Streak
    Brion James

    Director
    Walter Hill

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