Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: April 28, 1998
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790734591
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,663 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans star as yet another pair of mismatched detective buddies in this violent, cynical action movie about a discredited Secret Service agent turned gumshoe (Willis) who teams with a former pro-football quarterback (Wayans) to investigate sports corruption. The script by Shane Black moves and feels exactly like his script for Lethal Weapon, with the same wisecracks, putdowns, fights, scenes of torture, and over-the-top climax. Willis is on autopilot, and Wayans is all right but far from charismatic. Some of the supporting cast make a bigger impression, including Halle Berry and stand-up comic Taylor Negron, who plays a very mean accomplice of the film's chief villain. The DVD release has remastered sound, optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, optional French soundtrack, and optional French, English, or Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the action film is carried to surreal extremes, January 22, 2001

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"birdstuff" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Boy Scout [VHS] (VHS Tape)

the action film is carried to a rather intriguing extreme with THE LAST BOY SCOUT, a movie that pushes the world-weary detective stereotype to new, surreal levels. Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis), is a shamus hired by his best friend to protect a stripper who is subsequently killed. her washed-up football playing boyfriend (Damon Wayans) hooks up with Joe to find out whodunit and why. Willis' performance and Black's screenplay combine to produce a portrait of a guy who is so down and out that our first glimpse of him is a shot of him passed out in his own car while being harassed by snotty neighbourhood kids. throughout the whole film, Willis delivers deadpanned one-liners while constantly getting the crap kicked out him. BOY SCOUT is a guilty pleasure. it is mindless, formulaic, and particularly hateful towards women (and men as well) in spots with an uncompromisingly un-PC attitude that is very unusual in this day and age... and very funny. action films don't get any nastier than this one.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Boy scout says it best., June 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Last Boy Scout (DVD)

The best action movie of the 90's hands down! All this crap about the film being misogynistic is ridiculous. Willis' character is a burned out, embittered, down and out, has-been PI and former secret service agent ("a long time ago he saved the president's life" )who has seen too much and who has no faith left in anything. He is in a bad marriage, never home, drinks too much, a victim of marital infidelity. But he is still in love with his wife. ("I wish the sky wasn't blue, I wish water wasn't wet. I wish I didn't still love my wife.") He is a man's man of the old school; strong and ever silent with a black and white morality. He is loyal to a fault, taking on the case of the stripper and her boyfriend to avenge the car-bombing death of his best friend (who was sleeping with his wife.) His foul mouthed daughter is screaming for discipline which she finds (and drinks in ) at the end of the film. The one liners are great. The action scenes are awesome. The justice meted out in the end is fitting.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most underrated buddy cop movie of all time, October 27, 2008

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Nuisance "the rebel" (Miami) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Boy Scout (DVD)

You cant talk about underrated action flicks without mentioning The Last Boy Scout. I mean this movie came and went and stayed off the radar for a while. Let me give you a brief description of what its about.

Bruce Willis plays Joe Hallenback, a down on his luck private investigator who comes home and finds his best friend sleeping with his wife. He later teams up with an ex-football player named Jimmy Dix(Damon Wayans) whose girlfriend Cory(Halle Berry) just got murdered. Throw in Joe trying to find out who killed his best friend and a subplot involving gambling.

Opinion: Lets do a quintessential buddy cop checklist and see if this movie meets those requirements.

Does it feature an unlikely pairing? Check.
Does the unlikely pairing work well together? Check.
Does it have moments of humor since one of the stars is a comic? Check.
Does it give you one hell of ride from start to finish? Check

So what the hell are these people expecting? This was made to be a popcorn flick but it was one hell of popcorn flick. Bruce Willis still shined as the action hero of the movie. Damon Wayans was funny but he also fared well when it was time to do a serious scene. I still laugh at the scene where Jimmy claims that Joe has to be the dumbest man on planet Earth because Joe is trying to solve the murder of the same best friend who slept with his wife. The audience still cares even when we come to that realization also. This movie came out at a time when you can expect a good action flick and the director Tony Scott hadnt dropped the ball yet in that department. If you dont expect oscar material you might like this one but I still think its one of the most underrated buddy cop movies of all time.