Red Heat

There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners.

RED HEAT (18)

D: Walter Hill

Tristar/Carolco/Lone Wolf/Oak (Walter Hill & Gordon Carroll)

US 1988

104 mins

Action/Crime/Thriller

W: Harry Kleiner, Walter Hill & Troy Kennedy Martin

DP: Matthew F. Leonetti

Ed: Freeman Davies, Carmel Davies & Donn Aron

Mus: James Horner

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Capt. Ivan Danko), James Belushi (Sgt. Art Ridzik), Peter Boyle (Cmdr. Lou Donnelly), Ed O'Ross (Viktor Rostavili), Larry Fishburne (Lt. Charlie Stobbs), Gina Gershon (Cat Manzetti)

After his partner is murdered, a Russian detective joins forces with the Chicago police department in order to locate the drug dealer responsible.

Aside from the Soviet-American alliance, this is pretty much the usual mismatched partners formula with an average narcotics plot device.

It's noted for being the first American production permitted to film around the Kremlin, but aside from that slice of trivia it's only the chalk & cheese partnership of Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi that provides amusement.

6/10