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Hearken back to the halcyon days of 1991... a cat named George Bush was stylin' and profilin' in the White House... Musical dynamo Color Me Badd was in pitched battle with history's greatest Latin music track-- "Rico Suave" -- for radio supremacy. And for $4.75, you could see Bruce Willis' Master Opus The Last Boy Scout at the Strand Theater.
I know what you're thinking. I, too, saw a burly man with a hard hat and what appeared to be a Super Bowl ring weeping openly at the end of "Armageddon". But Willis' acting chops have never been so finely honed as when, in LBS, he orders his daughter to take off her makeup because she "looks like a f**king racoon" or, when responding to how he spent the previous evening, "I think I f**ked a squirrel to death." These clues to his character's deeply-rooted fear of large, copulating rodentia are just the tip of the iceberg that is the complexity of private dick Joe Cornelius Hallenbeck.
LBS also has Oscar Babe Halle Berry shakin' her thang in a cage to "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" at a strip club where Eddie Griffin is the DJ. No, really, I know it sounds like a joke, but it's true. Although it is, in fact, a body double. I've examined the DVD like it was the Zapruder film and determined that Ms. Berry is not the owner of the...uhhh... jiggling body parts in question.
But back to casting: Willis, Berry, Griffin, Damon Wayans, Taylor Negron (the mailman from "Better Off Dead") Noble Willingham (clearly the greatest thespian in the entire "Walker Texas Ranger" cast) and not to mention the guy who played the Lieutenant in "The Rockford Files" as, you guessed it, a police lieutenant. It also has Morris Chestnut and Billy Blanks in roles so small they might not make the credits. But don't worry... Billy still has some Tae-Bo fo' dat ass.
When you watch LBS, be prepared for gunplay, explosions, horses, snaky politicians, helicopters, alleyway stabbings, attempted drownings, puns, BDSM, an appearance by the cool Righteous Brother, a way-outdated reference to Super Dave Osborne, puppetry, kneecappings, and a Jimmy Carter lookalike. Be prepared. Always be prepared.
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