Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jim Belushi

Peter Boyle

Ed O'Ross

Laurence Fishburne

Gina Gershon

Richard Bright

Brent Jennings

Gretchen Palmer

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Mike Hagerty

Brion James

Gloria Delaney

Peter Jason

Oleg Vidov

Savely Kramarov

J.W. Smith

Gene Scherer

Tengiz Borisoff

Roger Callard

Gábor Koncz

Géza Balkay

Zsolt Körtvélyessy

János Bán

Masanori Toguchi

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Norbert Növényi

Istvan Etlenyi

George Gati

Peter Marikovsky

Gábor Németh

Istvan Vajas

Peter Kis

Atilla Fási

Eric Mansker

Lew Hopson

Jason Ronard

Gigi Vorgan

Allan Graf

Kurt Fuller

Bruno Alexander

Christopher Mankiewicz

Bob O'Donnell

Marjorie Bransfield

Luis Contreras

Christopher Anthony Young

William McConnell

Ed DeFusco

Joey D. Vieira

Michael Adams

Jonathan Tate

Michael Lindström

Gordon Carroll

Matthew F. Leonetti

Donn Aron

Freeman A. Davies

Troy Kennedy Martin

Walter Hill

Harry Kleiner

Mario Kassar

Carmel Davies

Andrew G. Vajna

James Horner

James Dyer

Tony Brubaker

Bob Herron

Regina Gruss

Michael Corenblith

Ernie Bishop

Bennie E. Dobbins

Michael R. Sloan

Jackie Burch

Michael Germain

Peter Tothpal

Dirk Petersmann

John Vallone

Dan Moore

Richard J. Levin

Tom Phillips

Jeanne Caliendo

László Rajk

Gábor Váradi

Jeff Dawn

Robert H. Lemer

Lorraine Raglin

Luca Kouimelis

Noori Dehnahi

Erzsébet Forgács

Mae Woods

Barry K. Thomas

John R. Leonetti

Action

Crime

Red Heat

Carolco Pictures

Lone Wolf

Oak Pictures

Lone Wolf Pictures

TriStar Pictures

United States of America

Entertaining enough buddy-cop movie has some fun action scenes (the bus chase sequence was great). Only thing holding it back was the pairing of Schwarzenegger and Belushi never quite worked for me. Still a good flick from Walter Hill, though not sure it ranks all that high compared with others from the era. **3.5/5**

Look out Chicago, Arnie & Jimmy are loose on the streets.

Captain Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a no nonsense Soviet cop who is sent to Chicago to pick up a murdering Russian drug dealer. Upon arriving in the windy city, Danko is teamed with Art Ridzik (James Belushi), a wise-cracking street cop notorious for cutting corners to get the job done. Complete polar opposites, both men form an unlikely alliance as Danko's Soviet methods blend with Ridzik's free spirited street wise techniques.

There were quite a few buddy buddy films around in the 1980s, certainly the teaming of unlikely cop partners was nothing new at the time of Red Heat's release. Yet for all it's obvious reliance on clichés, and its out dated Russian/American guffaws, Red Heat is a romping, violent and funny picture. Pairing the big Austrian Oak Schwarzenegger with the Americana that is James Belushi pays off in bundles. Yes it's sometimes crass, but Belushi's cocky mannerisms play off Schwarzenegger's robotic frame with comedic joy. All played out in amongst carnage and murder created by director Walter Hill, who is quite frankly, and thankfully, just extending the formula that he started in 1982 with 48 Hrs.

The support cast is not to be sniffed at either. Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Brion James and Gina Gershon. All line up to add fuel to the Arnie and Jimmy fire. Also good to see is that Hill shot on location in Illinois and Moscow to give the film some scenic impetus, whilst James Horner's score is suitably bombastic and at one with the material. It's no rocket scientist who observes a film like this and calls it popcorn fodder, because it so obviously is. But within its buddy buddy framework lies a very quotable film that's essential for fans of Arnie & Jimmy. Sometimes that's all one needs from a film like this. 7/10

CinemaSerf

I am not sure how much actual acting Arnold Schwarzenegger had to do in this rather derivative crime caper. A bit like John Wayne in "Brannigan" (1975), he is despatched to partner up with a cop abroad to order to repatriate a dangerous criminal. In this case, though, he is a Russian and it is wise-cracking American "Ridzik" (Jim Belushi) that he must bridge the culture-gap and work with to track down a murderous drug dealer who did for his partner and fled. To be fair to Arnie, he has his tongue a bit in his cheek here, but Belushi just mis-fires once too often in this rather sloppy adventure. The escapades are all rather predictable and the underlying joke/scenario wears thin all too quickly. I suppose it nods a little to the thawing in the post-Reagan relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union, but the delivery borders on the slapstick at times and I was never really a fan of Belushi's brand of rather puerile comedy - indulged in spades here by a trio of writers including the usually far more reliable Troy Kennedy Martin. It passes the time effortlessly enough, and reminds us who lived through that period of just how dodgy some of our fashions were, but thereafter it's all pretty mediocre fayre.