Tango & Cash

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Tango & Cash

R

1989

1h 44m

Crime

Drama

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Police officers Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are narcotics experts working to bring down drug lord Yves Perret (Jack Palance). In an attempt to stymie their efforts, Perret sets up Tango and Cash, making it look as if they've killed an FBI agent. Arrested and put in prison, the two cops formulate an escape plan and, once out, team up with Tango's exotic dancer sister, Katherine (Teri Hatcher), in order to clear their records and take down Perret once and for all.

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Critics Consensus

Brutally violent and punishingly dull, this cookie-cutter buddy cop thriller isn't even fun enough to reach "so bad it's good" status.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

'Tango & Cash' turns 25 years old next month, which means if it were a person, it'd be right around the right age to start realizing what a stupid movie 'Tango & Cash' is.

Jun 7, 2016

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

The jokes seem lame and the rivalry fraudulent, as the two boys play with their big guns.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jun 11, 2014

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Tribune

The film looks like the sort of queasy fever dream that might be produced by sitting through an entire Orson Welles film festival while eating pepperoni pizzas.

Rated: 2/4

Jun 11, 2014

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Candace Wiggins

Southern Voice (Atlanta)

Average direction, average script, average everything.

Rated: 2/4

May 9, 2023

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Tango and Cash is at least active and acrobatic… not too bad. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 1, 2022

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Stallone and Russell are entirely watchable as two larger-than-life juggernauts portraying the same cheeky tough-guy characters they always play in their actioners.

Rated: 5/10

Sep 8, 2020

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Underrated movie, definitely iconic

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/19/24

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Justin A

I've seen this movie 100 times and it never gets old, these movie critics wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them in the ass. Stallone and Russell had great chemistry alongside a beautiful Terri Hatcher, nothing can go wrong. Big guys, big toys and tons of action, a decade where the best action movies were made in my opinion.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/16/24

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Audience Member

One of the best buddy-cop movies of all time, up there with Bad Boys.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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Christian M

This movie has Kurt Russell, Brion James AND Robert Z'Dar. If you don't like it - FRIGG OFF.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/26/24

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Chris T

With empty genuflecting of an 80’s action film, bad jokes, visual metaphors that don’t really pay off, and a rivalry between two stars that were so popular at the time that good writing and an interesting plot were really a big waste of time. The standard “drugs/bad, cops/good” premise reminds me of the simpler time, the naivety of the public, and moving the plot simply by skipping forward in editing (cut to tango and cash arrested) that made the 80’s so great. Ignorance was indeed bliss.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/14/24

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Petar P

Great movie, good story for the 80s and great perfoarmance!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/07/23

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Andrey Konchalovskiy

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Sylvester Stallone

Lt. Raymond Tango

Kurt Russell

Lt. Gabriel Cash

Teri Hatcher

Katherine "Kiki" Tango

Jack Palance

Yves Perret

Brion James

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Synopsis

Police officers Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are narcotics experts working to bring down drug lord Yves Perret (Jack Palance). In an attempt to stymie their efforts, Perret sets up Tango and Cash, making it look as if they've killed an FBI agent. Arrested and put in prison, the two cops formulate an escape plan and, once out, team up with Tango's exotic dancer sister, Katherine (Teri Hatcher), in order to clear their records and take down Perret once and for all.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Larry J. Franco
Screenwriter: Randy Feldman
Production Co: Warner Bros.
Rating: R
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $61.8M
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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