Review of The Hard Way

The Hard Way (1980 TV Movie)
5/10
Promising Start
13 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
After the cold open, the quality quickly goes downhill. The movie is dark and moody which is good, but the cliched lines are cringeworthy. The producer should be whipped with a wet noodle for not spending a couple dollars more for a rewrite.

The ending is the polar opposite of the start. This highly experienced assassin is lured into a room-to-room house shoot out at night? Really?

An intern could have written an exciting ending with the baddies picked off one by one all over the continent. Yes, that's cliche too but it would be a satisfying conclusion. Half of Van Cleef's dialogue sounds like it was dubbed. It would have been a much more dramatic film if he had three quarters of his lines eliminated.
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