Predrag This is one cool thriller that takes place in the course of one night, Roy Scheider & Adam Baldwin are two hit-man who are to bring back a kid who may have witnessed something he shouldn't have, it is clear from the start that the two men don't like each other & the kid plays on this to his advantage in the hopes of escaping, Baldwin is the younger of the two & is a hothead with a short temper, Scheider is a veteran who is all business & knows that being careful is better than being over the top. Adam Baldwin gives a vicious performance as the hot-headed Tate, though a lot of his dialogue is badly dubbed over for content (despite the movie's R rating). Roy Scheider is ice-cold as Cohen, conceivable as a veteran killer suffering from hearing loss.The story is very interesting and makes you listen as to what is going on. Some twist and turns with the hit men making a run after they shoot the witness and the guards not having a chance. Taking a hostage who causes more pain than they expected. The movie as a whole isn't the greatest, but it's not so much the plot that drives this movie. The characters of Cohen and Tate, their conflicting natures and constitutions is what makes this movie worth your time. As the tension mounts, you can sense the characters' hatred for one another. When the movie reaches it's climax, you don't really care who gets killed but you really want someone to get it. Now it's not boring as it has a bit off a pace but not too fast as to spoil a fantastic show.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

gavin6942 Two professional assassins are sent to kidnap a 9 year old boy named Travis Knight (Harley Cross), who is under the United States Federal Witness Protection Program after witnessing a mob killing in Texas. Cohen (Roy Scheider) is the older, jaded assassin with a little bit of humanity still in him. Tate (Adam Baldwin) is the younger, hotheaded and psychopathic killer.The film is a cinematic version of O. Henry's short story "The Ransom of Red Chief", which partially influenced both "Ruthless People" and "The Ref". The version here is significantly different than the original (as it involves no ransom and is much more violent) but has the general underlying concept intact.Is it time for this film to be re-examined and re-evaluated as a lost 1980s action classic? Perhaps. While Harley Cross is a bit annoying (especially that accent) and Adam Baldwin pushes his role too far... this is still a fine piece of entertainment.

dfuge1972 Why hasn't Cohen And Tate come out on DVD? This film was made in 1988 and not only hasn't it been released on DVD, it's only been on British TV twice and twice in the same night only on ITV2 about four years ago. It took a British TV channel long enough to finally show it and Sky TV have never shown it on any movie channels out of all people. At least we can buy it on DVD and it's not even coming out on DVD.If we ask the distributors they will say it might not sell because hardly anyone has asked about it. That's because most people twenty-one years old and under haven't had the chance to see it to make an opinion.I bet if Cohen And Tate was made as a re-make that would be quick enough to come out on DVD when a lot of us are more interested in the original. I hope Cohen And Tate doesn't have a re-make because how many more re-makes are we getting? Damn, The Taking Of Pelham One, Two, Three has just been re-made and I suspected that a couple of years ago.

manuel-pestalozzi This film is not bad, it has excellent camera-work, many good ideas and creates an atmosphere. The editing is at times sloppy and the action is a little repetitious. Two professional criminals have to deliver a boy witness to the mob. And they fail. The movie shows the reasons.What lifts Cohen and Tate above the average is the top performance of Roy Scheider, an extremely talented thespian who unfortunately can show his wide range and his brilliance only too rarely. In Cohen he really creates a very memorable character, a truly tragicomic toughguy. Cohen and Tate resembles at times Reservoir Dogs, at times Fargo, and it is only fair to mention that both these hugely successful (and on the whole superior) movies were made years after this one. It makes one regret that Scheider never worked with either Quentin Tarantino or the Coen Brothers.For everyone who finds interest in Cohen and Tate I can recommend, as far as Scheider is concerned, John Frankenheimer's excellent 52 Pick-Up. For a somewhat „sublimated" version of Cohen and Tate see Stephen Frears' The Hit, with John Hurt in the Cohen part, Reservoir Dog Tim Roth in the Tate part and Terence Stamp and Laura del Sol jointly in the Travis Knight part.