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Overview

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5.6/10   15,972 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Walter Hill (story)
Harry Kleiner (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
17 June 1988 (USA) more
Tagline:
Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners.
Plot:
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to... more | add synopsis
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A buddy film that works and works well more (66 total)

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Runtime:
104 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2004) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (Certificate #29177) | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted
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The film is dedicated to its stunt coordinator, Bennie E. Dobbins. Dobbins died of a heart attack on the set while staging the film's snow fight scene in Vienna. more
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Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie, when Arnold jumps out of the sauna window with one of the Villains you can clearly see a stunt doubler instead of Arnold. more
Quotes:
Abdul Elijah: You want to know what my crime is? My crime was being born. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've been locked up twenty-six of those. I educated myself in here, and I've come to understand that this country was built on exploiting the black man. Of course...
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Referenced in Rush Hour (1998) more
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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
A buddy film that works and works well, 12 March 2003
7/10
Author: (chvylvr80@aol.com) from Northridge, California

Red Heat is a surprisingly good movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi have good chemistry in this Russian cop/cop buddy film. In this film at least it makes sense for Arnie to have an accent. There is some good lines and the back and forth between these two is pretty funny sometimes. When Jim Belushi plays a cop he puts on this irreverant "I don't like the rules but I get things done" style. It is this style combined with Arnold's "complete objective at all costs" style that makes this film work. The footage that was shot in Red Square is breathtaking, and overall the movie manages to take a basic plot and make it entertaining. On a side note, the holdout gun used by the villian (Ed O'Ross) in the movie is pretty damn cool if you're into that kind of thing. Bottom Line: This is worth getting, or you can rent it every once and awhile if you can only take Arnold for so long.

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