It's an action picture packed dense with the wit of a screwball comedy. And while that may not be a first, it's so bizarrely inventive that being first seems not nearly as important as being best.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
But if you can see past the thicket of dollar signs surrounding Hudson Hawk, you may discern quite a funny movie -- sort of an "Indiana Jones" send-up with a hip undertone all its own. [10 June 1991]Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
It ends up choking on a never-ending stream of inept gags... A worst-case scenario of wackiness gone out of whack. [24 May 1991]Read Full Review »
Merely airheaded where it should be lighthearted, Hudson Hawk offers a klutzy, charmless hero, and wallows dully in limp slapstick and lowest common denominator crudeness.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A movie this unspeakably awful can make an audience a little crazy. You want to throw things, yell at the actors, beg them to stop. But the film drags on, digging horrible memories into the brain -- like Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello's singing.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
This may be the only would-be blockbuster that's a sprawling, dissociated mess on purpose. It's a perverse landmark: the first postmodern Hollywood disaster.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Even Willis seems a bit bewildered at times, as if asking himself how he managed to get into such a mess. [24 May 1991]Read Full Review »