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| An odd star couple looking odd (and more than a bit funny) on this simple poster for Bruce Malmuth's Hard to Kill |
California cop Mason Storm is left in a 7-year coma by a nasty combination of the mob and a crooked local politician. When he awakes, heads are gonna roll!
Hard to Kill is written by Steven McKay (Diggstown (1992)) and directed by Bruce Malmuth (Nighthawks (1981)).
Steven Seagal (End of a Gun (2016)) succeeds in getting a store owner killed, and his own wife, before landing in the incredibly long coma. He awakes with a laughable beard but in otherwise mysteriously perfect shape across from a hilariously unconvincing nurse (model-turned-actress Kelly LeBrock (Gamers (2006))).
Hard to Kill is a braindead movie as inspected from every possible angle; it entertains on the lowest key imaginable as a pure turkey diversion. Malmuth, without any vision, seems to have placed his camera in order to merely observe the various scenes, which are often completely ridiculous. 'Storytelling' would be too fine a word to use in relation to Hard to Kill. Seagal throws bad guys through walls, tables and stores in his trademark 'fighting style'. Hard to Kill is a joke.
Watch a trailer for the movie here
Cost: 11.5 mil. $
Box office: 59.3 mil. $
= Big hit (returned 5.15 times its cost)
[Hard to Kill was released 9 February (North America) and runs 95 minutes. Shooting took place from April - July 1989 in California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #1 to a 9.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 3 weekends in the top 5 (#2-#2-#3), grossing 47.4 mil. $ (79.9 % of the total gross). Malmuth returned with Pentathlon (1994). Seagal returned in Marked for Death (1990). Hard to Kill is rotten at 33 % with a 4.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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