Usually when people say a movie wouldn't get made anymore, there are a ton of other movies exactly like it. But just try and find another movie outside of the 90's that plays like this one.
As always I feel like it's worth saying I don't love this movie because I think it's believable, grounded in reality or a revolutionary story. The honest truth is this movie is carried entirely by the acting and insane dialogue, it is absolutely over the top bonkers, but it goes so headlong into it that it goes through the wormhole and comes out the other side as high art.
The reason you won't get stuff like this now, it's just too crackers, crass and the two main actors in Denzel and Lithgow? You just wouldn't get two actors of that calibre and at their peak into what should be a B level movie.
John Lithgow alone is reason enough to watch this.
As always I feel like it's worth saying I don't love this movie because I think it's believable, grounded in reality or a revolutionary story. The honest truth is this movie is carried entirely by the acting and insane dialogue, it is absolutely over the top bonkers, but it goes so headlong into it that it goes through the wormhole and comes out the other side as high art.
The reason you won't get stuff like this now, it's just too crackers, crass and the two main actors in Denzel and Lithgow? You just wouldn't get two actors of that calibre and at their peak into what should be a B level movie.
John Lithgow alone is reason enough to watch this.