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...wanton massacre of Janet Maslin, Vincent Canby and Stanley Kauffman. Especially Stanley Kauffman, who seems to have an unerring talent of giving thumbs up to the worst movies in the business. (If you don't believe me, consider the fact that he really liked "The Muppet Christmas Carol." I went to see "The Muppet Christmas Carol" With a little cousin, and three year olds were walking out of the theater...
...film stars Alec Baldwin as Doc McCoy, a seasoned hitman, and Kim Basinger as wife and partner-in-crime, Carol. We meet the duo coolly clad with dark shades, shooting targets in the desert, cavalierly zipping away in their white convertible to take on a new contract. The job is the get a convict out of prison and fly him back to Mexico. Doc is betrayed by Rudy (Michael Madsen), who leaves him stranded after the police are called on to the scene. Carol seeks the help of Benyon (James Woods),and offers Doc's services in return...
Herein the "Getaway"-speak of all the characters is laid out: cash and sex. After Doc robs a dog-racing vault for Benyon, he hops into a nervous Carol's car. She looks concerned, asks him if he is alright, looks at the bag with 2 million dollars and is immediately reassured, "I guess so! she gleefully exclaims...
Baldwin believably plays the assassin and Basinger takes the edge off the blonde ditz that Carol could have become. They are the two serious characters in a sea of overdramatized and not-so-sauve villians. They work well together in the action scenes that require shooting and keeping track of the money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland...
Rabin's assistant Carol Harlow, who cited the recent history of letter bomb scares, said the package immediately looked suspicious...