![]() "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" is rated R for violence, language, nudity and sensuality.Cast Mickey Rourke Harley Davidson Don Johnson Marlboro Chelsea Field Virginia Slim Daniel Baldwin Alexander Tom Sizemore Chance Wilder Mike Fenton, Casting Sean Hamilton Disc Jockey Kelly Hu Suzie Valorie Massalas, Casting Judy Taylor Bob Tyler Stripper Big John Studd Jack Daniels Vanessa Williams Lulu Daniels Giancarlo Esposito Jimmy Jiles Robert Ginty Thom Tia Carrere Kimiko Julius Harris Old Man Mitzi Martin Woman James Nardini Punk with Gun Brenan T. ![]() With God or without, but by all means, go. When they part ways at picture's end, Marlboro's parting words are "Vaya con Dios," which translates as "Go with God." I'd put it differently. The comradery between the heroes surpasses everything they're deeper than blood brothers, so much so, in fact, that you half expect them to cuddle up under the comforter together at night. Macho posturing is what this Simon Wincer film is all about. He does it by sheer insouciance at least he hasn't deluded himself into taking this material seriously. Still, Rourke is manic compared with Johnson, who wears a cowboy hat and contributes little more than a scuzzy variation on his character from "Miami Vice." There are some attempts to provide buddy-tough, "Lethal Weapon"-style banter between the two stars, and Johnson, who seems more comfortable handling the comedy, usually gets the better of these scenes. The performance he gives is very low-energy, as if he expected his garish leathers and the exaggerated scar on his cheek to do all his acting for him. Here, Rourke - whose grease factor is at low ebb because of a fetching buzz cut - seems to have walled himself off in a world all his own. Rourke can be a mesmerizing presence onscreen, but as the saying goes, he does not work well with others. This is about as absurd a pairing as you're ever likely to see, but then again any combination that includes Mickey Rourke verges on the surreal. It's too bad that the stars, both of whom look as if they just crawled out of an ashtray, get all the breaks bullet-wise, because they're the least interesting people on screen. Again, what could be simpler? But somehow these deals never work out, and a lot of Harley and Marlboro's friends get dead. The boys, having no use for it, arrange a switch - $2.5 million for the stash. ![]() (Did I mention that the action is set in the future? It's easy to forget since it has no bearing whatsoever in the story except to make the heroes appear all the more anachronistic.) The bankers' hired thugs, who are extremely well turned out, want their dope back. The bank traffics illegally in a deadly new hallucinogen called "the dream," and when the boys and their gang knock over the armored car it's the drug and not cash that they steal. Piece of cake, especially for guys as hard as these. Their plan is to rob the bank - the same bank that's raised the rent - of $2.5 million to pay the inflated tab and keep their beloved hangout in business. ![]() That's right, it's an endangered-species movie, with Harley and Marlboro as the rescuing angels. The picture stars Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as Harley and Marlboro, a biker and a cowboy who grew up, so to speak, in a neighborhood bar that's being gouged into extinction by greedy bankers. Every summer, I suppose, gets the wrap party it deserves. The ads for "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" proclaim it, in bold type, as the "Summer's Last Blast," and it feels like the last of something. Violence, language, nudity and sensuality
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