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Hudson Hawk

R

1991

1h 40m

Comedy

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Thief extraordinaire Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has just been released from prison and all he wants is a nice cappuccino. However, before he can savor his favorite beverage, the highly eccentric and wealthy Darwin Mayflower (Richard E. Grant) and his equally odd wife, Minerva (Sandra Bernhard), rope Hawk into an ambitious series of heists. Soon Hawk is stealing no less than major works by Leonardo Da Vinci, priceless pieces that the Mayflowers plan to use in an exceedingly nefarious way.

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Critics Consensus

Hudson Hawk's kitchen-sink approach to its blend of action and slapstick results in a surreal, baffling misfire.

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Tim Pulleine

Guardian

[Hudson Hawk] seems able to provide little more than maladroit slapstick, mainly entailing graphic injuries, and reams of repartee whose sole distinction is to prove definitively that actors are incapable of dying from embarrassment.

Feb 28, 2023

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Adrián Álvarez

Espinof

An unfairly forgotten marvel. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Jan 26, 2021

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

...a feast of visual imagination and whimsical style.

Apr 14, 2020

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Here’s a bomb so enormous, it could level Rhode Island in a second.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 29, 2023

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Not even the star-studded cast has the talent to save Hudson Hawk from being a really terrible action-adventure comedy.

Rated: 2.5/5

Feb 23, 2023

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Hudson Hawk gives the disturbing, pathetic, and finally irritating impression that none of its perpetrators know what they are doing. [Full review in Spanish]

Dec 8, 2022

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Kris K

I loved this movie. Just plain fun with great actors. Over the top fun.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/12/24

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Caleb N

Get high grab a few buddies and laugh your ass off.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/09/24

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Blu B

If your able to seriously explain this plot to someone who hasn't seen this than idk what your reading this for. You clearly have a higher IQ than me because the longer his went on the more nonsensical, convuluted, and purely dumb this became. The music is boring and the music numbers with Bruce & Danny are stupid. The acting is terrible with the main culprits being the terrible dialouge which makes no sense half the time and the dumb humor. The humor lands hardly ever and when it does i's usually because it's unintentionally. The cinemaotgraphy isn't good either. The settings are nice and there is production value in this but it's used in dumb ways and weighed down by the crazy stupid story and bad humor. And this leads to terrible editing and pacing. To it's credit it's never boring though and even when it doesn't make sense I was always "entertained" somewhat by the commitment to stupidity. The plot is like a screwball Hitchcock spy thriller that sort of gives off North by Northwest vibes but never makes any sense with it's twists it throws at you the more this goes on. It's just dumb, stupid, nonsensical, and mindless. Skip This.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/07/24

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Alec B

Extremely bizzare but not nearly as awful as I expected. Yeah, Bruce Willis is not good here but almost all of the supporting performances are memorable (Grant and Bernhard in particular are sublimely campy). Had anyone involved been willing to occasionally say "no" to Willis or at least tried to shape this into a consistent movie it might have worked

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/10/24

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William N

This a great piece of escapism and is up there with Die Hard

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/29/23

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Farah R

Perhaps its slapstick humor was funny for a previous generation, but it's lost on a modern audience. Hudson Hawk isn't a typical Bruce Willis movie, and while it serves up a couple of admirable qualities, it's ultimately a letdown.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/04/23

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Michael Lehmann

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Danny Aiello

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Anna Baragli

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George Kaplan

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Darwin Mayflower

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Synopsis

Thief extraordinaire Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has just been released from prison and all he wants is a nice cappuccino. However, before he can savor his favorite beverage, the highly eccentric and wealthy Darwin Mayflower (Richard E. Grant) and his equally odd wife, Minerva (Sandra Bernhard), rope Hawk into an ambitious series of heists. Soon Hawk is stealing no less than major works by Leonardo Da Vinci, priceless pieces that the Mayflowers plan to use in an exceedingly nefarious way.

Director: Michael Lehmann
Producer: Joel Silver
Screenwriter: Bruce Willis, Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Robert Kraft
Production Co: TriStar Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.4M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround

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