The Last Boy Scout
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder…
- Director: Tony Scott
- Genre:Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:101 minutes
Cast
Bruce Willis : Joe Hallenbeck
Damon Wayans : Jimmy Dix
Chelsea Field : Sarah Hallenbeck
Noble Willingham: Sheldon Marcone
Taylor Negron : Milo
During a rainy football game between (fictional) teams from Los Angeles and Cleveland,[1][2] star running back Billy Cole (Billy Blanks) receives a threatening phone call during half time from someone named Milo (Taylor Negron), involved in game fixing, warning him to win the game at all costs, or he’s “history”. Cole ingests PCP and, in a drug-induced rage, brings a firearm onto the field. Cole initially continues to play normally but, finding his path blocked with seconds remaining, he shoots three opposing players to make it to the end zone. As the police move in, Cole kneels in the end zone and announces “Ain’t life a bitch?” before shooting himself in the head.
Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis), a retired U.S. Secret Service agent-turned Private Detective, discovers that his wife (Chelsea Field) is having an affair with his best friend and sometime business partner, Mike Matthews (Bruce McGill). The same morning, Mike is killed in a mysterious car explosion outside Joe’s house, after giving Joe an assignment to act as bodyguard for a stripper named Cory (Halle Berry). Beginning his assignment that night at the bar where Cory works, Joe immediately crosses paths with her over-protective boyfriend, former football star James Alexander “Jimmy” Dix (Damon Wayans), who had been banned from professional football on gambling and drug possession charges. After an annoyed Jimmy takes Cory away for some private time, Joe decides to wait outside, where he is attacked by thugs and taken away to be executed. As Joe turns the tables on his would-be assassin, Jimmy and Cory leave the bar in separate cars. Cory immediately gets into a minor car accident and, stopping to confront the other driver, is shot dead by the hitmen hiding in the car. Jimmy blindly rushes to her aid, requiring Joe to come to his rescue.
At the police station to explain themselves, and later at Joe’s house, Jimmy and Joe bond over their past and present failings. Jimmy had to retire from professional football after a sports injury led to an addiction to painkillers, which in turn led to a (possibly) erroneous gambling charge that ended his career. Joe had been a respected agent in the Secret Service and even once saved President Jimmy Carter’s life, before his career was ended when he punched a protectee in the face, upon discovering that the corrupt Senator Calvin Baynard (Chelcie Ross) was physically abusing one of his one-night stands. They decide to work together to solve Cory’s murder. Read more
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