jwtrox08706 Review of The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Fun, vulgar, violent, Bruce Willis with Damon Wayans...I could go on forever...almost...

[7/10 · 13 August 2006]

I heard about The Last Boy Scout because I was a Halloween fan and a fan of Danielle Harris. I wanted to see if I could buy any other of the films she's been in. The Last Boy Scout was the first one outside of the Halloween series. I watched it from beginning to finish, and I liked the film. Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans did very well together in this film. The Joe Hallenbeck character seems very similar to John McClain. Both are having marital troubles (John is divorced and Joe's wife is sleeping around on him), both are in some sort of law enforcement (John is an NYPD cop but Joe is a P.I.), both are wise asses and love to use a plethora (excess, overabundance, surplus) of profanity, and both characters kick a lot of ass and get the living sh*t beaten out of them in the process. Thos are some similarities that I can come up with off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying The Last Boy Scout is a knock off of Die Hard. There are some predictable parts in the film, however. The biggest one for me was the fact that Joe's daughter decided to get involved with trying to find her dad after he was kidnapped. If that doesn't scream her ending up as a hostage towards the climax of the movie, I don't know what does. Other than some of the predictable stuff in the movie, it is definitely something that I recommend to any action-loving individual.