a5c7b9f00b Forced by the imminent foreclosure of their friend&#39;s bar, two lifelong buddies will decide to rob a bank&#39;s armoured car, not knowing that its cargo is not money but a new street drug. Two lone riders and childhood friends, the rough and silent Harley Davidson and the ragged sun-baked cowboy Marlboro, assemble once more when they learn that their favourite hangout and the place where they grew up, the notorious Rock &#39;n&#39; Roll Bar and Grill is facing imminent foreclosure. For this reason, against the preposterous demands for a new contract, the two lifelong buddies in unflinching determination to win back the bar, they will decide to hold up the corrupt bank&#39;s armoured car, unbeknownst to them that its cargo is not money but a new lethal and highly experimental street drug: the Crystal Dream. Now the bank wants it back and they are unstoppable. Is everything lost for Harley and Marlboro, the two well-meaning but amateurish thieves? In much the same waycigarette packets carry warnings and motorcycles can be lethal if in the wrong hands, this movie shows that being a &#39;MAN&#39; can sometimes be a tough proposition! There are few finer exponents of &#39;macho cool&#39; in Hollywood than Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson; they both have the same grit and craggy weatherbeaten air that suggests they&#39;ve lived a tumultuous life about ten times over; so there&#39;s surely no two better people to casta pair of cool, jaded outlaws? This is a movie that wears it&#39;s brawling credentials proudly on its sleeve, and actsa kind of sad and ironic late goodbye to the unselfconscious action pictures that characterised the 80&#39;s decade. It opts to play its masculinity completely straight eventhe viewers themselves are aware that it&#39;s faintly ridiculous. In that sense, it reminded me a whole lot of &quot;Road House&quot; - Good, cheesy fun.<br/><br/>It takes a special kind of skill to deliver what might seem risible dialogue in a deadpan way, and both Rourke and Johnson have it, which makes this film a really enjoyable experience, if by no means a masterpiece. It&#39;s the kind of movie they don&#39;t make any more. Packed with testosterone and huge loads of male pride, Harley and Marlboro set out to kick some ass. I really love this movie because it shows like friendship between men works or at least how it is supposed to work. Even though the two main characters haven&#39;t met for years, they know where the other one is and when they come together again it&#39;s like they never were apart. They also help each other regardless if it will cost their live because in their mind &quot;It&#39;s better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool.&quot; (Harley Davidson) Of course this attitude brings them nothing but trouble but those two take it the macho-way and stand to whatever comes up. And for those who only think it&#39;s a modern macho western: &quot;Back off!!&quot; Take a closer look and you will see that there is a lot of soul and spirit hidden between the macho talking and behaviour.
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