Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.
Stunts
Car chase through a skyscraper because subtlety died in 1987.
Acting
Raúl Juliá elevating trash material into actual menace.
Direction
Eastwood directing himself getting tortured. Method? Maybe.
Director
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Nick Pulovski
Charlie Sheen
David Ackerman
Raúl Juliá
Strom
Sônia Braga
Liesl
Tom Skerritt
Eugene Ackerman
Lara Flynn Boyle
Sarah
Xander Berkeley
Blackwell
Coleby Lombardo
David's brother
Pat DuVal
Interrogator #1
Mara Corday
Interrogator #2
Pepe Serna
Lt. Ray Garcia
Marco Rodríguez
Loco
Donna Mitchell
Laura Ackerman
Tony Plana
Morales
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eastwood took over directing after the original director was fired, finishing in 38 days. You can feel it.
This bombed so hard it killed the Eastwood-Sheen team-up era before it started. Sheen would enter his 'winning' phase two decades later.
