Tango And Cash [DVD] [1989]

Putting Sly Stallone & Kurt Russell together in a movie was magic, great action, great acting and great comedy. This is pure 80's goodness 👍

This film has tonnes of action and keeps u on your toes every time. Highly recommend you buy

Fantastic

I've always thought a movie could be made about the making of a movie, cos there are so many movies with bizarre goings on behind the cameras and this just another of those & it's a wonder anything coherent was made, with supposedly almost everyone brought on to direct not lasting long & being fired, cast & crew falling out & not talking & actors dropping out, Patrick Swayze was originally supposed to play Cash, Though I think they hit pay dirt with Kurt Russell. Who is cast perfectly as Cash. This is an enjoyable action comedy that works, with the right amount of action & humour thrown together. It seems to be one of those films that gets forgotten & I don't know quite why as its a perfectly decent film. The film centres on Tango (Stallone) & Cash (Russell) the best cops in town, who get set up for a murder they didn't commit by Drugs kingping (Jack Palance) & are then sent to Jail, where they escape, intending to clear their names. The one let down with the movie is the cheap synth score that is clearly an 80 throwback. I wonder if they were trying for Bevery Hills Cop feel to the movie As it feels like they might be trying to recreate that feel with the humour & action & the music mix. There is a decent story & good action sequences too & doesn't feel like it should be some direct to dvd film. So I'm giving it 4 out of 5

Brilliant film love it

a great comedy action film that looks and sounds great on blu ray a great buy.

HD film works

Sylvester Stallone has made a career of breaking out of prison in movies. He's busted out of jail/confinement in First Blood, Rambo II, Lock-Up, Demolition Man, Judge Dredd, and this 1989 "classic". This time around Sly is wealthy Beverly Hills Cop (er...) Ray Tango, the second best cop in LA. Kurt Russell is Gabe Cash, a grubby, shaggy haired renegade who is also the second best cop in LA (depending on your perspective). Both of them are lured into a trap by evil criminal mastermind Yves Perret (Jack Palance, who is entertaining, but has nothing to do) a man who...um...runs a criminal empire? From a warehouse? In a quarry? On an old Air Force base? Perret and his business partners (exactly what this means and who these guys are is never properly explained - they're bad guys because they're bad guys) are fed up with Tango and Cash/Cash and Tango spoiling their evil schemes and plot to have them framed and thrown into the worst prison imaginable. Any logical mastermind would just kill them but then we would not have a movie. As a child I never understood this film. I was a smart kid and I was into complex movies well beyond my years. Yeah, I rented a lot of PG-rated stuff but I also consumed lots of grown-up movies. It was only when I was an adult that I realized the reason I didn't understand Tango & Cash was not that it was above me, but that it was BENEATH me. I wanted a serious adult's movie and instead I got a childish shoot-em-up. That's not to say that it's all bad, Tango & Cash DOES have a strong set-up and a great middle act with the two of them breaking out of prison, but by the time the third act comes around it falls apart completely with a confusing monster truck demolition derby, driven by bad guys that come out of nowhere, while Jack Palance sits around watching it on a bank of CCTV monitors (operated by who, exactly?) despite the fact that he's obviously just looking at b-roll 35mm footage. Director Andrei Konchalovskiy brings whatever coherence he can to the film under the insanity of producer/hairdresser Jon Peters. The film was in danger of never seeing the light of day after he was fired but editor Stuart Baird stepped in and stripped the film down the bare essentials, leaving a lot of plot excised. Maybe it's for the best, maybe it's for the worst. All that remains is a promising, yet ultimately disappointing, 80s cheeseburger buddy cop movie with a snappy Harold Faltermeyer score, anamorphic photography with some frequently striking shots, brainless action, and a young Terri Hatcher as a stripper who shows neither her breasts nor her vagina. The Blu-ray looks quite above average but not amazing in 2.35:1 1080p with a Dolby TrueHD sound design which feels weak and limited by the dated 80s fidelity and sound design. The only extra is a trailer.

Film réalisé à la toute fin des années 80 (1989), il n’en demeure pas moins témoin d’une certaine époque où les films d’action étaient tranchants et d’une efficacité redoutable, sans toutefois se prendre au sérieux pour autant. Il découle aussi d’un sous-genre qui a été assez répandu durant cette même période, celui du buddy movie, où deux personnes qui ne s’apprécient guère au début, finissent par faire équipe pour la cause commune et deviennent ensuite amis. Il bénéficie d’un des meilleurs duos du genre, Sylvester STALLONE et Kurt RUSSEL, qui jouent leur partition comme personne. Los Angeles. Deux flics que tout oppose, Ray Tango, qui est plutôt cérébral et Gabriel « Gabe » Cash, qui préfère foncer tête la première, font perdre des millions aux barons de la drogue. Afin de les neutraliser, un complot est mis en place contre les deux hommes, ils sont arrêtés et jetés en prison pour meurtre. Ils vont devoir trouver un moyen de prouver leur innocence. Ce qui frappe tout de suite, c’est non seulement le rythme tambour battant du métrage, qui ne faiblit jamais jusqu’à la fin, mais aussi ce dosage d’un parfait équilibre entre l’action et l’humour, qui est la signature du film. Les dialogues entre les personnages sont ciselés, les répliques sont percutantes, les scènes d’action sont très réussies (notamment les scènes qui se déroulent dans la prison) et l’alchimie entre les deux acteurs têtes d’affiche est tout simplement impressionnante, tant elle semble naturelle et créée sur mesure. Sylvester STALLONE est tout simplement parfait dans son rôle de Tango, flic très classe qui évolue en habit Armani, on a plus l’impression de voir un homme d’affaires qu’un flic au début du film, il assure une performance classique du héros d’action et a des répliques qui font mouche au niveau humour, tout en faisant référence à ses anciens films (Rambo, Haute sécurité). Kurt RUSSEL, est génial dans son rôle de Cash, il est l’opposé de Tango, très décontracté, il frappe d’abord et réfléchit ensuite, débordant d’humour et n’ayant pas peur de dire ce qu’il pense, il n’en reste pas moins un excellent flic, d’une très grande efficacité. A noter dans un de ses premiers rôles, l’inoubliable desperate housewive, Teri HATCHER, très jeune, qui interprète Catherine, elle viendra en aide au duo de choc lorsqu’il en aura le plus besoin. Côté technique, ma critique portera sur le blu ray import anglais. L’image est très belle, les couleurs sont bien présentes et le contraste est très bon, notamment lors des scènes sombres. Bref, c’est digne du support HD. Le son demeure correct et très efficace, les dialogues ressortent naturellement, il y a une vraie version Française, pas québécoise, très bonne, bien que je préfère la version originale, avec des sous-titres français, eux aussi présents, mais chacun fera selon sa préférence. Par contre, niveau bonus, il n’y a pratiquement rien, mise à part un trailer. Plus que maigre. Merci à Amazon d’avoir commercialisé cet import, étant donné que le Blu Ray français n’existe pas. Tango et Cash, même 28 ans après, n’a pas pris une seule ride. On ne s’ennuie pas une seconde. N’hésitez pas. A voir et à revoir absolument.

One of the best duos for action. Great movie from the eighties.

Ein Klassiker, der in keiner Sammlung von Actionfilmen fehlen sollte.

Blu-Ray perfetto. Ottima qualità video ed audio. Anche se è la versione del Regno Unito il Blu-Ray parte subito in lingua italiana. Consigliato!

This is such a good movie, funny and exciting 😀 it arrived quickly and in good condition.