An average movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Basically, like most of the major action stars like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, or later on Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson, at some point, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to develop also a comedic career but, contrary to his colleagues, Schwarzenegger is probably the only action movie star who actually managed to make some decent comedies and this movie is a perfect example. Indeed, even though it is nothing really amazing (in fact, it wasn’t even the most successful comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger released in 1988 as ‘Twins’ was pretty huge back then), I thought it was fairly entertaining and, above all, it perfectly used Schwarzenegger. Of course, you don’t need to be very knowledgeable about Russian/Soviet culture to notice that the whole thing is actually full of clichés and inaccuracies but it is also part of its charms. To be honest, I have never been a fan of James Belushi but he didn’t really bother me here and the movie is basically about Schwarzenegger playing a badass Soviet policeman, not his American sidekick. To conclude, I think it is a decent action-comedy and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10