Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 15, 1988 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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75
Slick, glossy, overblown, implausible. [15 July 1988, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
75
Has everything but a personality. [15 July 1988, Friday, p.A]
70
The New York TimesCaryn James
Has to be the most excessive film around. It piles every known element of the action genre onto the flimsy story. [15 July 1988]
88
The result is a foot-stomping rouser. Where else can you get a cop in his underwear boogalooing with skyscraper terrorists? [15 July 1988, Life, p.4D]
100
Mr. ShowbizCarmel Dagan
This brash, clever picture caught the attention of audiences after years of moribund product from the likes of Schwarzenegger and Stallone.