Who Won the Movie?
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- Willis is incredible, but the pick is Damon Wayans for a dynamite movie-star performance he never got the chance to repeat.
- The pick is agreed with: multiple people could have played the Bruce Willis role, including Don Johnson, but nobody else in 1991 could have been Jimmy Dix (Eddie too old, Denzel too established, Wesley Snipes weird, Jamie Fox too early).
- It was right time, right place for Wayans, who is likable, and it is a bummer he never got better scripts.
- Tony Scott was considered but rejected because this is not seen as a signature Tony Scott movie and it sounds agonizing to make.
- In a book about cocaine-era late 80s and 90s movies, this would be a chapter.
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