646f9e108c Kansas City in the 1930s: private investigator Mike Murphy&#39;s partner is brutally murdered when he tries to blackmail a mobster with his secret accounting records. When a rival gang boss goes after the missing records, ex-policeman Murphy is forced to team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer, even though they can&#39;t stand each other, to fight both gangs before KC erupts in a mob war. A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant–once partners, now bitter enemies–reluctantly team up to investigate a murder. Casting Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds together in an action comedy sounds good when one begins to think about it but it doesn&#39;t work when it actually happens. Such is the case with this 1984 Warner Brothers release that casts the two box office titansmismatched cops working together to infiltrate the mob. A good cast and a good story are highlights but a not so good execution of handling the story hampers this film and sends it plummeting downhill. Such an idea could&#39;ve (and should&#39;ve) scored. Buddy-buddy cop movie set in Kansas City, 1933. Director Richard Benjamin (&quot;Mermaids&quot; and &quot;Made in America&quot;) does well to allow Eastwood and Reynolds to carry the film, knowing Sam O. Brown&#39;s plot and premise weren&#39;t going to pull this one across the line.<br/><br/>Clint and Burt do beautifully creating a hate-hate relationship that stems from a former partnership on the force. Eastwood has remained a lieutenant, while private eye Reynolds has himself knee-deep in a botched sting operation thanks to his now dead partner. The pair are great together; no-one isdrybig Clint, norwetold Burt. Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn and Irene Cara lend support.<br/><br/>Benjamin wisely kept things tongue-in-cheek, while the scenery is convincing enough, with lots of old cars and tommy guns knocking around.<br/><br/>Wednesday, July 22, 1998 - Video
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