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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
In this souped-up urban-Western potboiler, Mickey Rourke plays a broken-down biker rebel named Harley Davidson and Don Johnson is his old buddy Marlboro, an aging cowboy with a Colonel Sanders beard. The movie would like to be a punked-out ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'' That film, though, had a script; this one is just a kinetic formula shoot-'em-up. Still, it's engagingly junky entertainment, with a healthy sense of its own ludicrousness. Rourke, speaking in a druggy monotone, turns Harley into a cross between the flaky Brando of the late '60s and Elmer Fudd. It's his throwaway attitude toward his own career that makes the movie's lousiness seem fun instead of depressing.
Posted Sep 06, 1991
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