Review of Hudson Hawk (1991) by Turri V — 25 Apr 2017

Hudson Hawk is one of the most confusing, bizarre and downright awkward films I've seen in a long time. The inflated ego of Bruce Willis took him from mega success with Die Hard to near-total destruction with Hudson Hawk.

The tone is confused, the story is ridiculous, the villains consume every ounce of scenery around them, and the biggest sin for a comedy, it simply isn't funny. It's not that the jokes aren't humorous, it's that there doesn't even appear to be any in the script at all.

The only laughs it draws out are at the expense of the films utter disregard for sense or logic. It's painfully boring most of the time, owing to it never bothering to invest our interest in either the plot or the characters.

The only way I can imagine it being enjoyed is out of a purely perverse sense of curiosity. It's gained a cult following in recent years and its hardly surprising. Everybody deserves to see this at least once, if only to witness how spectacularly a project can fail, despite all the effort that was invested in it.