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...know the movie With Honors with Joe Pesci? That was about me. I'm the original Harvard bum. I have a T-shirt that says, "I'm Really a Lawyer." I used to sit in on Harvard classes...
Goodman's practice includes civil law, and he represents only a few reputed wiseguys, but that's where his celebrity comes from. Goodman played himself in the movie Casino, as the attorney for a Mob character portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. At a roast honoring Goodman, tributes poured in from prisons across the land, including a teasing video from an alleged mobster who said, "Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today...
...rest of the cast doesn't make up for Baldwin's shortcomings. Chris Penn portrays Baldwin's partner Duke Finnerty as a wasted Joe Pesci (annoying accent and all), and Gina Gershon as girlfriend Joey is one-dimensional at best. It just seems like nobody tried very hard to make this film. One Tough Cop might have passed as a mediocre episode of "NYPD Blue," but it ultimately fails as a feature film...
After a quick action sequence and a bit of exposition, the meat of the movie begins with Los Angeles Police Department vets Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) horsing around on Murtaugh's boat with their Leodmouth near-friend Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Not 10 seconds after Riggs lobs Leo's pistol into the waves in jest, a massive freighter narrowly misses the puny fishing boat. Murtaugh and Riggs lose no time; a speedy flash of badge (very impressive from a distance, no doubt), leads the two cops, with minimal aid from Leo, to a shootout that...
What really supports this film is its strong cast. As usual, Pesci turns in a maniacally fine performance, adding a sentimental riff here and there. Russo, looking remarkably unpregnant for someone who gives birth at the end of the movie, is sweet. Jet Li is magnificently creepy as a strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...