22 - Friday, dune 24, 19X8 --. North Shore News

Red Heat fizzles

but Ssetloivice:

‘Red: Heat * “* é Tri-Star) ‘Restricted
(at ‘the Downtown, Park “Royal,
Gulidford, Denman | Place, Eagle
Ridge™ and Willowbrook 6
Theatres)

_THE HEA‘ ri is ‘off.

7 ht starts right’ at the beginning.

_ with the credits. Consonants, like
“R?", are reversed in a sort of."
 pig-Russian, a brief amusement;
“that quickly dies from overkill.’

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Belushi, who isn’t the best choice.
in a'situation: calling for
diplomacy, Soon, however, ‘they

-have something i in common a

dead partner.
-Loudmouth Jim seems more.

_ upset over being partnered with-a

humorless Paul Bunyan than he is

“over his partner's death, but let's».
- peut to the chase.’And; for the next :

“ax 9 minutes, that’ s exactly what wes

then cranks up and pushes ts two*

leads through familiar ‘paces. :

Soviet cop Arnold Schwar zenegger
pends a lot of energy for...

nothing. He bashes a couple: ‘of

bruisers around for information,

chases a vicious Russian drug:

* dealer’and still winds ‘up in the

with a dead partner: Worse, he:

> foses the killer who hotfoots

the sleazy. side of Cieago-

/ Eterman,’ ‘who has a music therapy’ ,
diploma: from Capilano College, a’

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Time and. again; the greasy s
: dealer slips through their fingers;

: which i is just as well or else the
The equally done-to-de:th p' ot. on
__minutes. Logic isn't the prime -~
concern here, gratifying short ate _

movie. would be over in about 10.

tention spans is. °
>The chemistry of the dynamic’

duo barely raises Red Heat to"
. room temperature. Atnie's ramrod
“ stoicism offers Belushi plenty of

verbal ammunition, but the plot

has been lifted from other, better:

films, ‘notably 48 Hours. This is no’
surprise a3 both films were directed
nd co-written by Walter, Hille

: Beetlejuice * ony (Warner f Bros.) _
-Rated Mature (at the Capltol 6)

Michael Keaton,:as the ghost”:

“with the mast, livens_up this loud

supernatural comedy. Geena Davis

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social. skills

encounter the demonic © Retelzeuse (Micha Keaton) in the comdy ‘Beetlejuice.

“and Alec Baldwin are. a recently-

deceased couple who want nothing -
‘more than peace everafter i in their.

quaint, home. : :

An obnoxious j pais ‘(Catherine
O'Hara, Jeffrey Joi ) buy the
house and proceed to'turn itinto.a
nightmare of modern design, much
to the specires’ distress... #3";
¢.. To exorcise the living; a crude
poltergeist named Betelgeusc 7
(Beetlejuice) i is enlisted, but he
seems more interested in claiming
* the mortals* morb id daughter for
“his bride:

‘°Q’Hara are geared about 90 °
= decibels higher, which results in a

' House ‘of Games ** (Orion Home’
* Video) Rated Meture « i

a truly unique and dazzling wey
afterlife, filled with bureaucracy
and civil servants. Davis and
Baldwin are nice to the point of. .
blandness, while Keaton and: A

wearying clash of styles: Still, there
are some very funny moments and

it will probably. be the only time
. you'll see Dick Cavett dance a,
. calypso, with, Robert Goulet .

Lindsay C ‘ouse plays a driven

a
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psychiatrist who’ fi nds her work .
hollow. A new thrill enters her. life’

., when she decides to research the:

con game. Her mentor, Mike (Joe ~
Mantegna), has more on his mind

“than playing teacher, however, and
“their relationship deepens into a
: deadly whirlpool of greed.

“ Director/writer David Mamet
has stylized the look of the film’

~© but several scenes come. off asi.
“merely awkward and, unconvinc-
- ing. Also, Crouse's wooden per.

formance make us lose interest,

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