TANGO AND CASH has all the ingredients of a typical buddy-cop picture in the tradition of LETHAL WEAPON, but under the direction of Andrei Konchalovsky (RUNAWAY TRAIN; SHY PEOPLE), it is a wild exercise in excess that also works as a satire of its genre. Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Tango,
a sophisticated, wealthy detective lionized by the press as the best cop in Los Angeles; Kurt Russell is Gabe Cash, a scruffy but celebrated LA detective who competes with Tango in making big busts. The two are thrown together in an effort to end the activities of California's biggest drug dealer,
Yves Perret (Jack Palance). After exchanging insults and wisecracks (most of them p...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
98 mins