-via IMDb.com
I can't decide what Tango & Cash is. When I first saw it, I loved it. Granted I was fourteen at the time. Revisiting it later, I was convinced it was just a bad action flick. Another look at the film, years later, I became certain it was a really well made satire of the 80s action genre. So I don't know. I'm no longer convinced of the satire angle and a read of IMDb's page for the film seems to tell the story of a troubled, problematic shoot that had more than one director and required a new editor to come in and save the film.
The film is far from great but it's no worse than a lot of 80s action movies. It did introduce the phrase, FUBAR, to me.
Sylvester Stallone is Ray Tango and Kurt Russell is Gabriel Cash, two Los Angeles Police Narcotics detectives who appear to be in constant competition with each other, taking down drug shipments left and right, really making the city's drug kingpins angry. Jack Palance is Perret, one of those kingpins, who decides to, rather than kill them, set them up and get them tossed in prison. It works too. They end up in prison, have to escape and then try to find the guy that set them up. Teri Hatcher shows up as Tango's sister, Kiki.
The good and bad (trying something new here, saw it in the IMDb page and wanted to try it)?
The good: The characters rapport is entertaining, both Stallone and Russell are great together. A lot of the action is a lot of fun and the prison escape is kind of thrilling. Brion James is cool.
The bad: Jack Palance. Sorry, he was annoying. The informal "Q" Branch that shows up, although the "Q" character, whose name I don't recall, is pretty cool. The truck Tango and Cash drive in the finale is overkill.
Overall it's entertaining.
