DICK STEEL After a hiatus of weeks, I'm back with scouring the library for more John Cusack movies. Hot Pursuit is one of his earliest movies, even earlier than the previously reviewed Say Anything. Here, he plays a teenager whose Chemistry exam stands in the way of spending a Caribbean holiday with his girlfriend and her family.However, his professor turns a blind eye to his flunking of the exam and the need for remedial lessons, and Cusack has to pursue his girl and her family as they had already set off without him. It's a decent comedy as he gets into situations like missing planes, spending the night with ganja-smoking Caribbeans, getting entangled with a pirate of sorts, and so on. And it all boils down to his ability to be able to save his girl and her family when they become victims of some thugs who take over their yacht.Fans of Ben Stiller would also want to watch this for one of Stiller's early performances on screen, and a villain at that. He doesn't have much lines, and neither are they funny though.Like most teen romance comedies of the 80s, it's pretty predictable stuff, and plays like a teenage boy's fantasy of how a holiday could probably turn out, and becoming the hero who saves the day. Suitable for those boring weekends which you want to waste away.Barebones Code 1 DVD containing no extras.

Nilblogette nilblog.typepad.com/nilblogette Can you imagine a movie where funnyman Ben Stiller plays the sadistic bad guy fighting against John Cusack as an action hero with Rambo hair? Oh, and with an extended cameo by Keith David, or is it David Keith, as a Rastafarian? Jerry Stiller is there too, with an uzi. And, and, and Robert Loggia plays a pirate. No, this was not a dream. It was HOT PURSUIT. Well, almost twenty years later, have they figured out that they needed to put a bigger picture of Cusack on the box if they want anyone but seven year olds to rent it. Unfortunately, only seven year olds can really enjoy this, as I did when I was that age. Specifically, I enjoyed that Cusack's girlfriend could do a front walkover holding a cocktail AND NOT SPILL A DROP! This is supposed to be a comedy, but the end is like a Stallone movie. Ultimately, HOT PURSUIT isn't comedy, action, or drama; it's neither here nor there, but it is worth a look to imagine the direction Cusack and Stiller's careers could have gone had this been a hit.

monkey-man I bought this great movie for $5 on DVD witch is a bargain and the movies about a man who is going to go on vacation with his girlfriend and her family to the Caribbean but he can not go because he has to re do a test that he failed and then just after his girlfriend has gone his teacher allows him to pass his test so he can go on vacation and then he gos to the airport and gets a plane to try and find her.This movie stars good actors and actress like Jhon Cusack,Jerry Stiller,Wendy Gazelle,Robert Loggia,Monte Markham and Ben Stiller.Jhon Cusack is one of my favorite actors of all time and his best movies have to be The Sure Thing,Better Off Dead,Say Anything,Con Air and Identity.There are heaps of good scenes in this movie especially the scenes in the end of the movie and over all this movie is great and its a must watch movie and my rating is 6 out of 10.

Richard An action/comedy where he (John Cusack, in his best role) to begin plays a looser boyfriend but becomes the hero in the end! At first he does too bad in school so he cant come with his lovely girlfriend and her family on vacation. However, his teacher is not an "hardass" and so he comes chasing after them. Naturally he misses the plane they´re on and so he gets on another one. This is where the story really takes off, he gets involved with some of the natives who try to help him, but they also seem to bee in trouble with the law! So does he, and after a little detour he gets hijacked, saved (not from the hijacker) and has to fight off a terrorist! When he finally finds his girlfriend and family, well thats when you find out what he´s really made of!Action - comedy - suspense - in a lovely surrounding, what more to ask from a film! And honestly guys, wouldn't you say that this is something you could dream would happen to you?