Synopsis
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
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Cast
- Mickey RourkeJohnny Handsome
- Ellen BarkinSunny Boyd
- Morgan FreemanLt. A.Z. Drones
- Forest WhitakerDr. Steven Fisher
- Elizabeth McGovernDonna McCarty
- Lance HenriksenRafe Garrett
- Scott WilsonMikey Chalmette
- David SchrammVic Dumask
- Peter JasonMr. Bonet
- Yvonne BrycelandSister Luke
Recommandations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a movie in the true tradition of film noir -- which someone who didn't write a dictionary once described as a movie where an ordinary guy indulges the weak side of his character, and hell opens up beneath his feet. - 70
The New York Times
Because Johnny Handsome is a film by Walter Hill (The Warriors, Streets of Fire), it crams the following things into its first five minutes: gunfire, screeching brakes, a drug-popping hoodlum, a moll in black leather, a violent robbery, one murder, sinister masks, shattering glass. But because this is Mr. Hill's work, these ingredients are slapped together with high style. - 70
Washington Post
Walter Hill's "Johnny Handsome" feels like a shiv jammed between your ribs in a prison-yard fight. It's clean and brutal and so ruthlessly efficient that it's opened a hole in you almost before you've realized it. - 63
Boston Globe
Johnny Handsome may lapse into downbeat formula, but its acting is pungent, and, in the case of Barkin and Henriksen, as immediate as a razor slash. [29 Sep 1989, p.34] - 63
Miami Herald
This is a B-movie through and through, and no less fun for that. [29 Sep 1989, p.G12] - 60
Empire
New Orleans looks as photogenic as ever but ultimately Johnny Handsome never quite leapfrogs over its fundamental cracks. - 60
Time Out
Barkin and Henriksen perform with relish, Whitaker and Freeman are pleasantly understated. Rourke tries harder than ever to minimise, nay obscure, his good looks, a process which merely serves to emphasise them. - 50
Los Angeles Times
This movie can spot the handsome face that lies beneath an ugly exterior, but it seems to get fooled by the rot that sometimes lurks beneath the sweet and the safe, the formula and the sure-fire.
