THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991) **1/2 This is a very violent movie. Not the most violent movie in the history of mankind, but whatever the next category down is. Shotgun, shotgun, on the wall.who's the toughest sumbitch of all? Why, it's Bruce Willis! I don't know if this is his most convincing role as a tough guy, but off the top of my head I'd guess it is. He's believable, and he can take a punch like.he can take a punch, man. These kind of movies apparently think that they can justify themselves by pasting on all kinds of peripheral shit: love interests, tragedy and atonment, etc., and this is the part that sets this apart from the set. It may all be a bit cliché and predictable, but Bruce, Chelsea Field, you can see the pain in everybody, in their eyes, in the way they move. It's been wondered before, but maybe tough guys get tough because they're conduits for pain; maybe comfortable people don't feel any need to take chances. That's not always true. I have some reservations about Daman Wayons as a dramatic actor, but he's good buddy-chemistry here, and it's a role that suits him. It's not a feel-good movie, and it lacks something in the hyper-realism department, but it's action all the way, scattered across an intellectual framework that isn't embarrassing. You do feel for the principals and wish them well, and you can't help noticing how much of their suffering is self-inflicted. Someone's bound to think they were trying to say something about football, but if they were I wasn't able to connect the dots: that part's about money, I think.
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