The Last Boy Scout

Name: The Last Boy Scout
Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Released: December 13, 1991
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Badja Djola, Bruce McGill, Bruce Willis, Chelsea Field, Damon Wayans

1991

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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews

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Geffen Pictures | Release Date: December 13, 1991 | R

Starring: Badja Djola, Bruce McGill, Bruce Willis, Chelsea Field, Damon Wayans, Danielle Harris, Halle Berry, Kim Coates, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negrón

Summary: An LAPD detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.

Director: Tony Scott

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Owen Gleiberman

The Last Boy Scout is a guilty pleasure by any standard, but I’ve seen plenty of guilt-free movies lately that aren’t this much fun. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The Last Boy Scout will win no year-end awards, but at least it delivers the goods-which is more that can be said for most of this year's holiday releases. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The Last Boy Scout is overwrought, extremely violent, has a relatively unbelievable winding plot, perhaps the foulest mouthed teen ever, tons of low lives everywhere, lots of shots to Willis’ face, and is actually a pretty entertaining effort, an undeniable guilty pleasure. Read full review

Susan Wloszczyna

Directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun) with his usual testosterone-injected verve, Scout is never boring but hardly edifying. With a nod to the '90s, the formula does digress to allow the pals to expose their emotional wounds to each other. [13 Dec 1991, p.4D]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The story is beholden to the trendy steroid-and-TV world view: pump it up and cut it fast. Still, the dialogue, while fitfully glib, is wry and engaging, like a profane Raymond Chandler on speed. No one acts (in the Stanislavsky sense, anyway) but all perform well. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

The best things about The Last Boy Scout are the editing, Bill Medley's singing, a few moments of Noble Willingham villainy and Willis--whose weary, exasperated style exactly suits this kind of material. But the worst things about Scout are its slickness and self-confidence. A story about lonely heroism in a sick age should be a little hipper to what's really heroic and what's really sick. Read full review

Rick Groen

Blowing up bad guys, swearing, and lots of cliches makes the The Last Boy Scout a must to miss. [16 Dec 1991]

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Steven1981

Apr 28, 2020

Tony Scott's The Last Boyscout which was made in 1991 is an action movie that kind of rips off the Lethal Weapon ideas to a degree and Tango & Cash because there's nothing new here... The Last Boyscout however works because of the humour and stupidity, I like when Damon Wayans' character inTony Scott's The Last Boyscout which was made in 1991 is an action movie that kind of rips off the Lethal Weapon ideas to a degree and Tango & Cash because there's nothing new here... The Last Boyscout however works because of the humour and stupidity, I like when Damon Wayans' character in the movie says to Bruce Willis ya fkn car sucks! Full of bad language, shootings, chases, possibly explosions and basic violence and action I'd say it delivers.… Expand

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Solarium

Jan 12, 2020

A+ *************************************************************************

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stevekm

Jan 24, 2023

Bruce Willis at his best. The plot had a few holes in it but so what? It's an action movie so you get your money's worth.

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timone

Nov 9, 2018

As much as I love Die Hard, I'm going to just tell you the details about The Last Boy Scout. This movie is very similar to Lethal Weapon and I can't believe that I haven't been reviewing all Lethal Weapon films. Including the scene where Darian, Joe's daughter watching it. While I wasAs much as I love Die Hard, I'm going to just tell you the details about The Last Boy Scout. This movie is very similar to Lethal Weapon and I can't believe that I haven't been reviewing all Lethal Weapon films. Including the scene where Darian, Joe's daughter watching it. While I was thinking about this recently I watched the opening credits from this and the guy who wrote the story and screenplay is Shane Black. He just wrote the screenplay for the Lethal Weapon films and now The Last Boy Scout. That is why the story is done twice. Why didn't I think of this before? What really surprised me is that it bombed at the box office which was crazy and aside from that I'm surprised that it had a cult following. So it's directed by Tony Scott and all I can see is the same location as Beverly Hill Cop and Beverly Hills Cop 2. The action scenes are awesome as usually like the ending where Joe and Jimmy heading to the football stadium to take down Marcone and Milo before they take down the president. This movie is awesome, well, not as good as the Lethal Weapon films and the Die Hard films which stars Bruce Willis but it's still awesome. So this buddy cop action flick will make you dance a jig and have Friday night's a great night for football.… Expand

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O3Chaos

Feb 14, 2021

Die hard with a sports theme but that's not a bad thing. Bruce Willis is the quintessential 90s action anti-hero.

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