Synopsis
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisEddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins
- Danny AielloTommy Five-Tone
- Andie MacDowellAnna Baragli
- James CoburnGeorge Kaplan
- Richard E. GrantDarwin Mayflower
- Sandra BernhardMinerva Mayflower
- David CarusoKit Kat
- Frank Stallone Jr.Cesar Mario
- Donald BurtonAlfred
- Don HarveySnickers
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Reader
It doesn't have the polish or the momentum of an Indiana Jones adventure, and isn't too engaging on the plot level, but at least the filmmakers keep it moving with lots of screwball stunts. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
This one may be just excessive enough to develop a cult following. It also proved quite popular with German audiences, for reasons we've been unable to fathom. - 38
USA Today
It ends up choking on a never-ending stream of inept gags... A worst-case scenario of wackiness gone out of whack. [24 May 1991] - 25
Chicago Tribune
Boring and banal, overwrought and undercooked, Hudson Hawk is beyond bad. [24 May 1991] - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Just awful… There is probably not one interrupted 60-second stretch in which a line of dialogue doesn't clunk, an action doesn't ring false or an irritating plot turn doesn't present itself. [25 May 1991] - 20
Variety
A relentlessly annoying clay duck that crash-lands in a sea of wretched excess and silliness. - 20
Austin Chronicle
Everybody figured producer Joel Silver and Willis couldn't lose and guess what? They all rolled craps. - 10
Washington Post
Merely airheaded where it should be lighthearted, Hudson Hawk offers a klutzy, charmless hero, and wallows dully in limp slapstick and lowest common denominator crudeness.
