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Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Taylor Negron, Chelcie Ross, Halle Berry
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Last Boy Scout |
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Bruce Willis stars as Joseph Hallenbeck, a down and out private investigator who teams up with disgraced former quarterback Jimmy Dix to solve the murder of Jimmy's girlfriend Cory. The movie starts out with Hallenback getting a phone call from his boss Mike Matthews (Bruce Mcgill) asking if he would bodyguard a stripper who was being harrased by some creep. He agrees to take the job but wanted to go home first where he finds his Mike hiding in the closet because he was sleeping with Hallenback's wife. They walk outside and Matthews gets in his car and it blows up.
Hallenback then shows up at a strip club to meet Cory and unceremoniously Jimmy Dix. WHile outside smoking a cigarette Hallenback gets knocked on the head and gets dragged away by some thugs, leaving Jimmy and Cory alone where they decide to take off on their own in seperate cars. Cory's car gets bumped and she get out where she is executed in a professional hit. Hallenback gets out of trouble with the thug in time to help Dix out of the predicament. After talking to the police Hallenback agrees to work with Dix to find out what's going on. Together they go to Cory's apartment and find out that Cory was blackmailing Sheldon "Shelly" Marcone (Noble Willingham) the owner of the L.A. Stallions, the team Dix played football for. Marcone was going to kill Senator Calvin Baynard so Marcone can have legalized sports betting. Hallenback and Dix dodge hitmen and escape ambushes.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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Bruce Willis plays Joe Hallenback, a down an out PI and former Secret Service member. A friend and fellow PI is killed, so Joe takes over the case to uncover the murderer. He is tasked with protecting a stripper named Cory (Halle Berry), but when she is killed he teams up with her boyfriend, Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans). Dix is a former pro football player and he helps Hallenback uncover corrupt politicians and businessmen who will stop at nothing to make sure that professional sports gambling is made legal. There is plenty of action and plenty of one liners in this fast paced action romp.
--Alex Emborsky, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Last Boy Scout |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is...
- politicians
- big business/rich guy
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- dangerous
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
- full of laughter
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- diced
- run over
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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