The Real McCoy goes nowhere with lacklustre scriptl

The Real McCoy * ¥2 (Universal)
Rated Mature (at the Park &
Tilford, Granville, Coquitlam,
Richport, Station Square, Clear-
brook, Scott 72 and Willowbrook
cinemas) |

“AREN McCOY (Kim
:- Basinger) is the type
’ of safecracker who
has never had‘a bad hair
day. But she made up for it
by having a bad bank day.

-It' was a well-heeled real estate
: investor with a honeyed draw!
named back Schmidt ( (Terence

. Stamp) who wanted McCoy to pull

a triple-A security bank job. When
~she:refused, he did his civic duty.
_ An alarm goes off during one of
“her jobs, t they piace is surrounded
“by cops and the working mother
spends six years behind bars. {Al- .
‘though there is no evidence,’Mc-"
“Coy blames Schmidt for her. woes. )
~ Now.all she wants is to go .
“straight, get ajob; and see her. son.
.But who said a glamor thief’s life is
“simple? Schmidt hears she’s back
on the'street and to persuade Mc-
' “Coy to foliaw through on cracking
1a state-of- the-art bank, he and his
“hoods kidnap her sen...
The only one on her side is

“Schmid?’s nephew, J.T. Barker (Val

“. Kilmer), an inept crook,

». Kilmez’s role must be patterned °
after the director,and writers of
this lacklustre misfire. The
“characters are dull and non-
threatening (a pretty major.

. drawback in asuspense movie).
’ Basinger either looks deadly
earnest while setting up the high-
tech crime in an attempt to appear
: ‘professional or else she giggles
ginishly around soft-hearted .
Kilmer, making them the nicest
Pair, of crooks ever,to pull a stick-:

7

Up
There's $ the briefest flicker of fun.

when bad guy Schmidt weens as
ne watches Al Pacino get shot at
the end of Scarface. Sadly, those
two seconds are surrounded by.
iG minutes of wasteland. ~~

if this is the Real McCoy, | sure
would hate to see the phoney one.

The Asphalt jungle #44
* (MGMIVA Home Video) Unrated
‘There's no faking here. John .
Huston co-wrote and directed this
. classic jewelry robbery turned
-sour,.using an array of flawed
characters unusually realistic for
. the ‘50s.’ -

When criminal mastermind Doc. :

- Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe)
assembles his team of crooks, he
doesn’t count on the dishonesty of
the corrupt lawyer who is
bankrolling the job. Perhaps un-
trustworthy lawyers were rare in

Van Damme
crew using
NV shipyards

CREWS WERE filming a scene
from the latest Jean-Claude Van
Damme movie Timecop tast week
at North Vancouver's shipyards.

The sci-fi action thriller, directed
by, Peter Hyams, stars Van
Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara and
North Vancouver's very own
Richard Faraci.

Faraci, a martial arts expert,
plays a villain, a ‘‘good role but
not one of the top roles,” accord-
ing to publicist Darryl Wright.

Timecop will film on location
and in studio in Vancouver, with
production expected to wrap by

* mid-December.

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

1950, but still, the good doc

should have seen the outcome _
considering the brutal tone in this

black and white society.

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Sterling Hayden, best
remembered as Gen. Jack D. Rip-
per, the nut who starts World War
tllin Dr. Strangelove, got a career
break in this granddaddy of all
caper films. He plays Dix, the
tough hood who tries to salvage
the job when it starts to unravel.

And Marilyn Monroe had her
first major role as the lawyer's
mistress, a showy but brief bit that
lead to a series of mostly forget-
table parts in light comedies and
B-thrillers until three years later
when she found Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes.

Fittingly, in The Misfits, Huston
also gave Monroe her final role.

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