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Is this a great movie? Not really. Will I absolutely stop and watch it if I happen to see it's on? Yes, I will. It's truly an oddball comedy, most definitely not every joke works, but its manic energy and silliness still manage to crack me up.

The real credit, for me, goes to the movie's two ridiculous scene-chewing villains, Minerva and Darwin Mayflower who pretty well have to be seen to be believed. If you looked up over the top in a dictionary I think you could possibly see a picture of them, and yet they're played with such conviction and flair that I love every scene they're in. For me, without them, the movie wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.

...no, don't take it seriously, as the movie doesn't take seriously itself. It's as funny as it's silly, and that's what makes it enjoyable. Characters are all dumb, the good guys are no saner than the cartoon-looking bad guys, the story is just the basement for a set of somehow childish jokes that, even being a grown up, I really enjoyed when I watched it a couple of decades ago. I decided to watch it again today, to find that it's still funny enough to have a nice time in the couch.

I'm torn on HUDSON HAWK. After watching it, part of me went, "What the hell was that?" But another part suggested that maybe I wasn't hip enough to "get" what it was trying to do. Part of me thought it was a completely ridiculous waste of time. Part of me thought it was just good, clean fun.

Though certainly not for everybody, there are enough redeeming qualities in HUDSON HAWK to avert its dismissal as a multimillion-dollar turkey. Bruce Willis is Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins, a cat burglar intent on retiring but who is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a (gasp!) world domination plot. Along for the ride are Tommy Five-Tone (Danny Aiello), mysterious nun Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) and conniving bad guy George Kaplan (recognize that name?) played by the late James Coburn.

The plot sounds like it could have made for a good DIE HARD-style caper, but director Michael Lehmann had other ideas. As he reveals in the DVD version's audio commentary, HUDSON HAWK was meant first and foremost as a comedy. Trouble is, it was promoted more as a Bruce Willis action blockbuster. Audiences were left scratching their heads as their favorite tough guy engaged in Stooge-like slapstick, sipped cappuccino and, most astoundingly, crooning Crosby classics.

Not that mistaken expectations are the only thing wrong here. Indeed HUDSON HAWK is simply too silly for its own good. The gags frequently fall flat, nearly embarrassing the talented performers involved. The plot is overly convoluted, and Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard as the villainous Mayflowers are a bit hard to take. At its lowest points, you'll be astounded something like this could receive a theatrical release.

To get the most out of HUDSON HAWK, go in with an open mind. It's unlike anything you've seen before -- in both good and bad ways.

This was one of the first films that I saw when I came back from the Persian Gulf War. It is listed as among the biggest money losers of all time and when it came out it generated some of the most scathing reviews of all time. When Bruce Willis made The Last Boy Scout later that year, one reviewer said "He gets punched in the mouth so many times, he must feel like he's still reading reviews of Hudson Hawk" Willis wrote the story for this film, so I'm sure this must have particularly hurt him, this film put his career in the toilet before Pulp Fiction revived it. I don't think the film was all that bad myself, even though it wasn't Citizen Kane and wont go down in history as a classic I am at least hoping that it might generate a cult following. At least it attempts to be original, you have to give it credit for that. So many movies these days are just rip offs. Willis gives an engaging performance as the cappachino-drinking, wise-cracking cat burglar who is forced to pull off one last hiest. I really laughed at the scene where he and Danny Aiello pull off that robbery while doing such a wonderful rendition of "Would You Like To Swing On A Star". Aiello is a great actor as is Andie McDowell and James Coburn who also give great supporting performances. Coburn has a lot of fun spoofing his tough guy image. It sort of reminds me of In Like Flynt. My best advice is leave your brain at the beginning of the movie and just have a good time. Yes this film wont cure cancer or anything like that, but its still a lot of fun if you just give it a chance.

Hudson Hawk has cult movie written all over it. Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello have a blast making robberies while singing show tunes. It put me in the spirit of the movie and I enjoyed myself. Everybody in the cast overacts but that didn't bother me at all. This is the kind of movie that after years pass will be considered a cult classic. Check out Hudson Hawk if you want to have a good time. Because like all the best films, you have to suspend your belief in reality to make it work and this movie is fantasy on a whole new level.

A movie that I've never understood the critics' response against. Yes, it's primarily a Bruce Willis ego-trip. Who cares? It's a _fun_ Bruce Willis ego-trip. He smirks, smartmouths, struts, sings, and strides through every scene. But he still doesn't manage to steal the thunder of Danny Aiello, James Coburn and his band of covert agents, and Sandra Bernhard and Richard Grant in a truly bizarre series of sequences as eccentric (to put it mildly) billionaires. Andie MacDowell doesn't make much of a romantic lead, but even she gets a goofball sequence when she starts speaking in Dolphin-ish.

Hudson Hawk has the dubious distinction of being the final film produced by TriStar Pictures prior to their being bought out by the Sony Corporation and merged with Columbia Pictures.

Plot In A Paragraph: Hudson Hawk, the worlds greatest cat burglar, has just been released from prison in New York. He is immediately blackmailed in to stealing some of Da Vinci's finest work in order to aid a world domination plot.

Bruce Willis gives one of his worst performances as Eddie Hawkins/Hudson Hawk, likewise Danny Aiello is not up to his usual standard as Tommy Hawks best mate, Andie MacDowell is very blah as Anna, Hawks love interest. David Caruso and Frank Stallone are both fine in their supporting roles. However Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant are simply awful. Cringeworthy bad. They ruin EVERY scene they are in.

The movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, a slapstick comedy or an action adventure, and sadly ends up being neither.

One thing I did like was a running joke in the movie that has Hudson and his partner Tommy (Aiello) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits. Willis-Aiello duets of Bing Crosby's "Swinging on a Star" and Paul Anka's "Side by Side" are a bit of fun in an otherwise mixed bag.

As the title of my review suggests, this movie got better with age. Don't believe me, check out the reviews. Check out the score timeline. The more time expires, the higher the ratings. That's because when this came out it was panned as a vanity piece - a work of Bruce's ego. But it really wasn't. It was a bunch of mostly A list actors at the time having fun with the script and in general, over acting every scene. When I first saw it, I laughed the entire movie and then the hate started. This was pre-internet so it was mostly movies reviews in magazines or TV like Siskel and Ebert. I began to wonder if there was something wrong with my humor. Was it me? What did I miss? Or was it simply some people just didn't get it. I think it was the latter and with the internet to quickly overrule the critics, this movie went down the tubes.

So it depends on how you approach it. If you look at it as a serious "Cat Burglar" or "Heist" movie, you're going to say, "WTF did I just watch?" If you watch with a big bowl of popcorn and want to se some actors having fun with a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, you'll like it. Bruce said him self in several interviews that Hudson Hawk was intended as a satire of the genre. He insisted the absurdity was supposed to be part of the charm. Meant to be a joke, but few at the time saw the funny side. If it had been made, just a few years later, maybe after Pulp Fiction, it could have been viewed differently. Don't panic - I am not comparing Pulp Fiction with Hudson Hawk. Where Pulp Fiction sewed comedy and drama perfectly, Hudson Hawk was ham-fisted and comically awkward. Both were ahead of their time with it's mixture of genres: the movie spoof and a violent action film common of the time. Audiences and critics weren't ready for Hudson Hawk's sometimes shaky deliver and thus, by and large generally misunderstood since it fit into neither category neatly.

HUDSON HAWK (C) is likely an entirely different experience for me watching the film with the distance of 31 years and away from the context of the time. In 1991, Willis was a red hot superstar off the success of two Die Hard films and Hudson Hawk was advertised as an action/crime film. The film is actually a quirky comedy with a few heists that can double as action sequences if you squint enough. In other words, it's closer to something like Stallone's Oscar or Travolta's Get Shorty mixed with Looney Tunes and audiences were not ready for it. It bombed at the box office and won several Razzie Awards. It's not a good film, more like a poor film, but it's certainly not worst of the year or all-time type stuff either. Bruce Willis plays the "Hudson Hawk", a decent cat burglar, who winds up getting caught between lots of different parties (CIA, Vatican conspiracy groups, Mafia, Billionaire criminals, etc.) over getting valuable historical items that could help turn lead into gold (the items were supposedly one of Da Vinci's inventions). Willis, like the film's sense of humor is hit and miss, despite really trying to go for it here. Andie McDowell, on the other hand, is pretty miscast. The longer the film goes the campier it gets and by the end there's some full-on hijinx that just don't really work. Not worst of all-time, but kinda so bad it comes around to being somewhat enjoyable campy in the end.

I'm not sure entirely why, but this movie is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Almost every part of this movie just hit's me in the "Fun Zone" of my brain. It's silly, and it's stupid but it's done in a smart way, if that makes sense to anyone but me. The timed gag's were something that I really dug - even the musical elements (something which usually I don't find very entertaining in movies) work for me. I'd say go into it with an open mind, and don't over think anything and you might have a good time watching this. But then again, there just might be something wrong with me.

Corny, stupid, inane.. the script seems to have been written only half-way. Rest of the movie is pure ad-lib, anything goes. Full freedom given to the "actors" to do whatever they like next. And it goes on and on, with no big surprise, no twist even in the attempted comedy. For some time I thought it might be a spoof. But that hope died out rapidly. Only unique feature seems to be that the cops and robbers are equally dumb. If you're stocked up with beer and buddies, and if you're in the mood for silly humour, then this movie may work for you- if you don't like the humour you can have a good laugh at the movie itself.

Let me tell you my reviews do not take up a lot of space and I practically never give a synopsis of the movie because you can get that anywhere. However what my reviews will tell you is an everyday movie fans look at if it was entertaining and whether they did their job to telling a story. Don't listen to critics they have their own agendas.

This movie won more Razzie awards than any movie released that year (1991) and was rated as one of Bruce Willis's worst movies (Obviously they didn't anticipate Once Upon a time in Venice). I think this is one of his best aside from Die Hard of course. This movie bring him back to what made him famous (Moonlighting), his comedic delivery and snarkieness make every scene work.

The Cat Burglar has charm and an innocence that matches well with some slap stick and a great crime caper. Don't listen to the critics, give Hudson Hawk a look.

Is it cheesy? . . . Yes, Is it Fun? . . . Yes. I bet you repeat a few lines from the movie after you see it! Ring-Ding Goat Cheese Pizza! I had 2 bowls of Popcorn on this one, I spilled the first one when I laughed at the Nintendo comment.

A Hidden and Underrated Gem and should be in every Bruce Willis Collection.

I've read some of the good reviews of Hudson Hawk, and if those folks (many here on IMDb) found enjoyment out of it, that's your prerogative. But you can call it a surrealistic/absurdist/satirical masterpiece all you want; the question has to come down for every single person watching Hudson Hawk: is this FUNNY? Perhaps in those large capital letters you may think so. I didn't find any of this BS funny. Hudson Hawk isn't surreal, and it wouldn't know surreal if it came and bit it in the dick with a toothbrush attached to a giraffe on fire. It's a movie made by clever people (no, really, they are, the guys made Heathers right before this, Michael Lehmann and Daniel Waters) that shreds genuine cleverness for self-satisfied smugness. This film is so satisfied with itself, but it never lets the audience see something just remotely close to reality so that the absurdity can find a foothold.

I knew of this movie just by reputation - it was a bomb so notorious in its time it almost (just almost) made the previous year's Bonfire of the Vanities (also, coincidentally, with Bruce Willis) not seem so bad. It's a movie that cost upwards of 45 million dollars - at a time when that sort of thing wasn't done - and the movie is and isn't there at the same time. Sure, you have a super-star like Bruce Willis (and other names like Danny Aiello and Andie McDowell and, uh, Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard and James Coburn, people who may not have cost much but they're there I guess). Sure, you have locations in New York city and Rome, so there's a lot of action and fancy locations. And sure, there's... what else is there?

I'm sure the actors were game for this, but the script is one of the biggest piles of dog crap I have ever encountered in all of my years of watching movies. Every other line has to be a joke, or some witty/smugly clever line. But it's not, it's stupid, it's lines that constantly, consistently, take the audience out of the movie (or it did for me). It's one thing to have a caper involving some sacred object from centuries past that multiple parties are after - right now I'm sure you can think of a number of movies right off the top of your head (Notorious and an Indiana Jones movie were ones for me). But here, it's completely artificial.

It's not that artificial can always be a death knell; filmmakers for decades have used a sort of heightened, stylized form of dialog for characters to be kind of cool and interesting - watch the Ocean's 11 movies and you see it done with actual style and sincerity, since a) it's actually funny lines being delivered, and b) the filmmakers know to give a few minutes to let the characters be sort of real people. Here, from right after a prologue showing the DaVinci whatever thing, when Hudson Hawk is leaving prison onward, it's an onslaught of snappy dialog that doesn't snap, and things like, oh, musical numbers (?!) set as Willis and Aiello pull off a cat burglary/heist and it's so, so bad.

This comes down to just being cartoonish; I almost wish it had been a cartoon, even an episode of f***ing Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, whatever, and at least there could be some context for some of the things that happens with the supporting characters. Not even Andie McDowell, who appears at first to be possibly the straight person to react to all of these who-cares-about-a-top-lets-go-to-outer-space actors, can resist making dolphin noises when under some hypnosis/paralyzing drug from the bad guys. And any thought of Willis showing just some restraint is thrown out the window (apparently Willis got in clashes with the director and kept putting in his ideas, and incidentally has a 'co-story' credit, goodness).

I'd tell you more about the story, but who cares, really? This is a movie where the writers and director think they've got a smash comedy on their hands - jokes about Nintendo and Cappuccino drinks abound, for example, and about stuff like the Vatican but it's so safe, even as it's an R-rated movie - but no arbiter of good taste seemed to be on the set while every actor made themselves into jerks. Sometimes for things to be funny, you have to play it STRAIGHT, to not make it like you're in on the joke, and that is the central problem with this movie.

There's actually one almost decent sequence, where Willis has to steal a sacred notebook from a Roman museum, and here there is very little dialog (there's no show-tune, thank god), and how Hawk goes about stealing this item and getting away shows a few good ideas that the filmmakers had. But, on the whole, I just felt bad for a number of people here (Aiello especially, and Grant as well after seeing him be hysterical in Withnail & I). For Willis... this seems about right for his career at the time. I just didn't find it funny, and even then it would be a mess.

This movie has no logic to it, it's as ridiculous as many Hong Kong action are and just as much fun! The audience I saw it with liked it a lot. This is not great art, but it is great B movie escapism at its finest. Richard E. Grant does a great job of chewing up the scenery as the over the top bad guy, I even liked the "Swingin' On A Star" duet between Bruce and Danny. Bruce Willis is also ultra cool as the wisecracking master thief, Hudson Hawk. And hey, how can you not love a movie with lines like, "Slurp my butt"? Anh? Ciao!

In this zany comedy, Bruce Willis stars as a cat burglar whose claim to fame is singing classic songs to time his heists. Sounds a little odd, doesn't it? Just be prepared that Hudson Hawk is a bit wacky, and you'll be in the right mindset to have a good time. I read the synopsis out loud when I rented it, and while everyone fled the room and refused to watch it with me-only a slight exaggeration-I ended up enjoying it!

When Bruce Willis gets out of prison, his parole officer asks him to steal a statue from a museum. Bruce and his good friend and partner Danny Aiello sing "Swingin' on a Star" while they break into the museum's safe, and it's so adorable! As you settle into your seats and expect the rest of the movie to be a cutesy heist-musical, Bruce gets kidnapped and forced into another robbery. Two rival gangs, one led by James Coburn and the other by Richard E. Grant, keep tabs on Bruce as he stumbles through Rome trying to keep out of trouble. As if keeping out of trouble while getting into trouble isn't complicated enough, he also romances the beautiful, mysterious Andie MacDowell, who has her own secret agenda.

The script of Hudson Hawk is very witty and quick; any movie that references David Niven as the perfect cat burglar will win me over in a wink. The pattern of the film keeps you constantly on your toes, shocking you with a bit of weirdness just when you think it's settled into a bit of consistency. Every line Richard E. Grant gets to deliver is hilarious, and his sparkling energy easily steals-and I mean that as a compliment-every scene he's in. He's delightful and charming, almost becoming a cartoon character in an equally wacky movie, and almost making you root for the bad guy.

If you're in the mood for an oddball comedy, you'll probably get a kick out of this one. You get to hear Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello sing, see some Italian scenery, and appreciate the eye candy of Andie MacDowell. Also, keep an eye out for David Caruso, Frank Stallone, Lorraine Toussaint, and Sandra Bernhard, who gets to prance around in a different, gorgeous outfit in every scene.

DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend. There's a scene where Bruce Willis is on a hospital gurney on the freeway, and the rocking camera movement will make you sick.In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"

Hudson Hawk (Willis) does a dime inside for b&e/robbery, and when finally gets out he has no intentions of resuming his old ways. Of course, the first thing that happens is he gets threatened with a dirt nap if he doesn't pull a job for some local crime family (just when he thought he was out). So he and his partner Tommy do the job (and perform a catchy tune as they work), which sets off events that lead to an adventure they had no intention of trying to find (going to Italy, stealing from the Vatican, dodging a lot of bullets, etc).

They don't make em like this anymore. This farce brought me plenty of lols as a teen. Don't think, just sit back and enjoy!!

6.3 rating imo.

This is a great pass the time, cheesy comedy. Don't look for substance, just enjoy the ride and bad jokes.

I remember hearing about this movie ... and considering the cast it has, I am quite surprised I never actually saw it. On the other hand it is a mess tonally speaking! This is all over the place - not just physically or time wise ... but really with what it shows. It is consistent in the way that it is as crazy as one can imagine. Ridiculous fun mixed with brutal violence.

Now you may think that cuts it (and you may appreciate this pun too), but there will be people that are not so forgiving. Actually the rating suggests that most could not dig the way this was mixed or the mood this was trying to sell. An oddity from 90s ... worth a look for sure.

Only Bruce Willis could come up with such a self indulgent tale where he gets to sing. In fact the "singing thieves" bit is in fact the best part of the movie. The story is a mess, the characters are forgettable, the performances are ridiculous. One might think they were GOING for laughs and absurdity here but that's not exactly the case as at every other turn they try to dazzle us with action and effects sequences. (explosions that go boom. whee.) It isn't funny. None of the over the top performances are funny. The plot has enough loopholes to make you think that the script was written by an 80's sitcom writer, and all of it smacks as bits left over from Willis' Moonlighting days. Thank God he eventually learned how to act three years later with Pulp Fiction. The only interesting thing about this movie other than the timed singing bit is that a very young David Caruso is in it.

Just sprung from prison Hudson Hawk finds himself being chased by an insane and insanely rich couple, the CIA and the Vatican in a mad chase to get bits of a gold making machine made by Da Vinci. Along the way stupid jokes are told, the plot is ignored or twisted in the name of a joke and the entire cast winks at the audience repeatedly as if to say that even they can't believe the silly things they are doing in the name of fun.

When this movie opened it was crucified by critics across the country as an unfunny vanity project. It sunk the promising career of the director and made people take a second look at Bruce Willis. very few people braved the reviews and saw this in theaters. Me? I'm one of the six people in America that went to see this on opening night. I've loved this movie from the first and my opinion has grown with each viewing. I remember arguing with people for weeks afterward that they should see this movie because it was damn funny. No one listened to me, and it wasn't until cable and home video that people discovered this wrongly dismissed gem. This is more proof that sometimes critics don't get it.

Then again all humor is subjective and what one person finds funny is not what other people find funny. I love this knowingly dumb, puny, go for the obvious, nothing is sacred or too stupid to try collection of jokes and gags. Other people are offended or utterly bored by its often infantile antics. I find it charming and harmless, other people find it cruel (Bunny Ball Ball!). I can't say which camp you'll fall into, but I think that you should ignore the critics and just see this movie. Its mindless fun of the highest order.

This film seems to be getting better with age. Oddly funny on first viewing (decades ago), I found myself in tears watching it at the end of 2021. Great goofy script. Bruce Willis at his quirky best.