Loose Cannons

1990
R
1h 34m

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4.9/10

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Dan Aykroyd and Gene Hackman in Loose Cannons (1990)

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Buddy Cop Action Comedy Crime Thriller

An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split pe... Read allAn unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.

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5.3K

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Trivia
In May 2013, an employee at the Calgary, Alberta landfill discovered some film negative in the mounds of trash. He looked closer, and found images of a man kneeling over a gruesome murder victim. Thinking it could be evidence of a crime, he submitted the negatives to the Calgary Police Services. After a short investigation, they recognized Dan Aykroyd, and contacted his agent for information, finally concluding that it was simply a discarded negative of 'Loose Cannons'. The investigation was immediately closed, and everyone had a good laugh. Aykroyd jokingly told TMZ: "The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs."

Goofs
When Grimmer shoots at Ellis behind the stained glass at Grand Central Station, his gun locks as if he has fired his last round of a magazine. When the camera comes back to him, the gun is back to ready position without his cycling a magazine.

Quotes
Ellis Fielding: Humpty Dumpty's back on the wall!

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Stella/Heart Condition/Men Don't Leave/Flashback/Cinema Paradiso (1990)

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Loose Cannons
Performed by Dan Aykroyd and Katey Sagal
Written and Produced by Peter Aykroyd and Ran Ballard

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Featured review

8/10

Really Unexpectedly Excellent!!! A Real Lost Treasure Of A Movie.

Loose Cannons is a film long lost in time & if ever mentioned it's not liked at all, but I've seen it & totally enjoyed this rare oddity of a buddy-cop comedy thriller.

First off I'm a life-long fan of Dan Aykroyd & Gene Hackman!!!

I grew up watching the comic genius Aykroyd with Classic's such as Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters 2 (my all-time favorite movie) & Trading Places & Dragnet (my 2nd fave film of all-time) & Coneheads & My Stepmother is an Alien & Sneakers & Blues Brothers & Nothing But Trouble & Spies Like Us & more. Aykroyd was a comforting face to me growing up & he's one of my top 5 fave actors of all-time.

Gene Hackman is one of the greatest actors in all of Cinema History & has one of the greatest filmographies in all of Cinema History. I also grew up watching Hackman in The French Connection, The French Connection part 2, The Bird Cage, Enemy of the State, Behind Enemy Lines, The Poseiden Adventure, Absolute Power & many more. Hackman was always a standout actor playing good or bad roles , he was always brilliant on screen.

Here we get a rather dark but ridiculously hilarious buddy-cop comedy thriller with Hackman playing a tough, sarcastic & rebel wreck of a cop who gets teamed up with the genius of Dan Aykroyd as a very disturbed man from mental health healing safe haven. Aykroyd is on comic genius form here as he is a riot of hilarious character impersonations whenever he gets too stressed in a dangerous situation. Aykroyd is fantastic in this very tricky & exhausting role. The cops need Aykroyd's brilliant mind to help solve a strange crime that consists of murders, Nazi's, Secret Agents & a Porno starring Hitler!!! The story is definitely a unique one. Directed by Bob Clark (Black Christmas, Porky's) who created a very different type of the 80's buddy-cop movie & put in real looking bloody violence mixed with manic comic moments that all seems to gel together fine. Our miss-matched cops have to solve murders & dodge bullets from Nazi agents as they try to track down a Hitler porno film.

Aykroyd actually puts in a fantastic performance as he's a man suffering as a schizophrenic with many personalities & he handles it all like the professional he is as it could've easily been very cringing to watch but he's genuinely hilarious. There's heart to in Aykroyd's role as we later find out he's this way because of a time he works as an undercover Narc cop that was captured & brutally tortured for days & that sent him over the edge. There's definitely a darkness to the film as much as there is a lightness to it. The supporting cast is great especially a very enjoyable Dom DeLuise.

Loose Cannons is definitely a very rare & unique buddy-cop film that's loaded with hilarious moments (the funniest being when Hackman spends the night at Aykroyd's place lol) & full of non-stop action & moves into a chase thriller.

There's loads to enjoy in Loose Cannons & we get the genius pairing of Hackman & Aykroyd.