Hard Time [1998] [DVD]

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Anyone who automatically turns their nose up at a TV film is a movie snob as far as I'm concerned. Yes, there are plenty of rubbish things on TV, no secrets there. But there is so much more crap at the cinema that is rammed down our throats and forced upon us because we are made to think it's amazing. It does take quite a lot for me to turn my nose up at a film and I do have a wide and varied taste which I'm very proud of. The only things I don't watch are superhero films, apart from Batman and Superman that is. And I hate most romcoms, unless they have an adult theme running through them and not two hateful individuals who are opposites but then fall in love through sickening and unfunny scenes. 100% pure s**t.The other day I watched Hard Time and was pleased with the result. It's a pretty paint by numbers cop drama with Burt Reynolds playing the same charecter he has done since 1988. If fact this film is more or less a carbon copy of his late 80's thriller, Phyiscal Evidence. I would say that film is slighty better than Hard Time, partly because of the odd relationship between Burts charecter and his legal advisor in Hard Time. The story follows Reynolds as an old timer cop who is accused of murdering a perp and stealing some loot. He is arrested and spends the rest of the film trying to find the truth.This film is what it is. A straight forward TV cop movie. Reynolds performance is pretty good and he looks good with his silver hair which is the same shade as a pensioners love wallet! His fight scenes are hard core and he has good banter with his partner, played by long time collaborator, Charles "salad dodging" Durning. What is painful to watch is how fat Durning is. It's embarrassing to see a person like this. He can hardly walk he such fat bastard! Right, you will now have excuse me while I get myself a kebab, but with all the salad of course.

Yet another good-cop-gone-bad who lets another cop take the blame for the crime film. Had hoped for more with Burt Reynolds in it, but I should have known better as I found it on a 'bargain shelf'.