Antonio Banderas plays a washed-up, alcoholic, ex-famous heavy metal band bass player. His wife drags him to a July vacation in Chile (where it is winter in July, one of the running jokes.) She is kidnapped by insurgents while on a wildlife viewing tour. The rest of the movie is about Turk (Banderas) bumbling around the city while trying to ransom his wife back. But he is dogged by an overzealous American FBI agent, who hates his current assignment and has dreams of a big promotion, as well as delusions of grandeur.
Banderas basically is this whole film, though the actor playing the FBI agent is hilarious as well. I suspect that Banderas took the role as it is the opposite of his usual swashbuckling, handsome, heroic (or villainpus ) roles. The plot is very basic, but it's the acting and the little jokes that make me keep watching this again.
I won't relay the name of Turk's band's classic hit, because it's possibly NSFW. But watch the first few minutes of the film and you'll catch it. Anyone who is a fan of '80s hard rock or metal will laugh instantly. And I dare anyone to watch the "tortoise" dialog between Turk and the FBI, and not laugh (25:30 in, if you want to skip to it.) Lots of other funny and touching moments. It feels like the producers, director and actors had a lot of inside jokes going on between them all.
"Gun Shy" never takes itself seriously. That's getting rarer in cinema, and I love it.
Banderas basically is this whole film, though the actor playing the FBI agent is hilarious as well. I suspect that Banderas took the role as it is the opposite of his usual swashbuckling, handsome, heroic (or villainpus ) roles. The plot is very basic, but it's the acting and the little jokes that make me keep watching this again.
I won't relay the name of Turk's band's classic hit, because it's possibly NSFW. But watch the first few minutes of the film and you'll catch it. Anyone who is a fan of '80s hard rock or metal will laugh instantly. And I dare anyone to watch the "tortoise" dialog between Turk and the FBI, and not laugh (25:30 in, if you want to skip to it.) Lots of other funny and touching moments. It feels like the producers, director and actors had a lot of inside jokes going on between them all.
"Gun Shy" never takes itself seriously. That's getting rarer in cinema, and I love it.