Murphy's Law
1986 Directed by J. Lee Thompson
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A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
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Another silly 80's Bronson movie. This one's almost as dubious and idiotic as Kinjite and also enjoyably weird and silly throughout, as well as highly homophobic and misogynistic. My favorite bits were all the colorful swearing Kathleen Wilhoite gets to utter, not much in the way of 'fuck' or 'cunt' but a lot in the way of 'sperm count', 'booger brain', 'butt crust' and 'dildo nose'. We need more movies where someones is called 'dildo nose'.
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Eh, not a huge fan.
This is a "2 people handcuffed together who have nothing in common and learn to get along" movie. Only Bronson is stuck to this super eye-rolling female car thief with the worst one-liners in film history.
There is an awesome female antagonist who feels out of place because she kills people R-rated. But the rest of the movie feels like a whimsical PG-13 action comedy. Just mismatched a little bit.
This could maybe be a fun time for some people, but I watched it between 10 TO MIDNIGHT and MESSENGER OF DEATH, both of which were better Bronson movies for my money.
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Pretty solid slice of Cannon/Mid 80's Bronson action. Spurts of brutal violence now and then (wasn't expecting that hostage situation in the airport go the way it did) and some bad ass one liners from Bronson ("Don't fuck with Jack Murphy!").
It was also extremely surreal to see the Jarvis family home from 'Friday The 13th Part 4' used here. Because I've seen F13TH4 so many times, it was almost like 'Murphy's Law' was trespassing on another movie. But anyway...
The thing that let it down a little for me personally, was the terrible (and constant) "hard ass" dialogue from the Arabella character, "snot rag" "butt crust" "snot licking donkey fart"...the list goes on...it is funny in a "what the hell?" kind of way, but it starts to grind your tits into a smooth paste after 10 minutes.
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Charles Bronson as a cop called Murphy in this 80′s cop thriller wi nae thrills. He gets set up and goes oan the run wi a pain in the arse car thief lassie. It’s rubbish. I didnae know whit tae watch so I chose this. Don’t know why. In fact, I don’t know why the fuck I own it. Although in my defense its a vhs I got fae a charity shop fir 10p. Still, I think I paid over the odds. Honestly, a horrid, nasty piece of shit of a film.
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The reason to see this is not just because it's another Charles Bronson action film from good old Golan-Globus, but because of the Arabella character and her literally almost non-stop stream of vulgar but really bizarre insults; "butt crust"? "dinosaur dorks"? "snot-licking donkey fart"? What a strange script.
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Don't fuck with Jack Murphy! This finds Bronson teaming up with a foul mouthed teenage delinquent to solve the murder of his stripper ex-wife. Just your typical '80s Bronson fare, but none the less ridiculously entertaining. Also a fun fact learned from this movie Charles Bronson dosen't like mayo on his sandwich.
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Good looking b-movie pairing a Bronson tough cop playing by his own rules with an overly cocky petty criminal who aggressively spits out lines like Mayonnaise, who doesn't like mayonnaise!? like there's no tomorrow. Thompson seems very comfortable directing up tempo sequences and he really shines in the action-packed finale. Unfortunately he's not as good at handling the comedy: the lack of chemistry between the who leads causes every odd couple-based joke to fall flat.
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man, the putdowns from Bronson's sidekick are THE BEST!
"MONKEY VOMIT"!!
"Bug suckin' booger!"
"Eat it toe jam!"
"Ow you snot licking donkey fart!!
too much.great movie too.
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Another silly 80's Bronson movie. This one's almost as dubious and idiotic as Kinjite and also enjoyably weird and silly throughout, as well as highly homophobic and misogynistic. My favorite bits were all the colorful swearing Kathleen Wilhoite gets to utter, not much in the way of 'fuck' or 'cunt' but a lot in the way of 'sperm count', 'booger brain', 'butt crust' and 'dildo nose'. We need more movies where someones is called 'dildo nose'.
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Eh, not a huge fan.
This is a "2 people handcuffed together who have nothing in common and learn to get along" movie. Only Bronson is stuck to this super eye-rolling female car thief with the worst one-liners in film history.
There is an awesome female antagonist who feels out of place because she kills people R-rated. But the rest of the movie feels like a whimsical PG-13 action comedy. Just mismatched a little bit.
This could maybe be a fun time for some people, but I watched it between 10 TO MIDNIGHT and MESSENGER OF DEATH, both of which were better Bronson movies for my money.
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In the early 1980s, actor Charles Bronson was enshrined as one of America’s popular stars, mainly due to the somewhat stereotyped vigilante role he had essayed in then three Death Wish films for director Michael Winner. These films, with increasingly cynical crass-ness examined the clash between institutionalized Patriarchal authority on the one hand and, on the other, individualized reactionary (self-) righteousness. This theme would be of interest to director J. Lee Thompson who had pioneered its film treatment in the original Cape Fear. When Thompson became an in-house director at the disreputable Cannon films, he took advantage of their contractual working arrangement with Bronson to direct a series of lurid thrillers which used Bronson’s existing image to probe the social…
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Pretty solid slice of Cannon/Mid 80's Bronson action. Spurts of brutal violence now and then (wasn't expecting that hostage situation in the airport go the way it did) and some bad ass one liners from Bronson ("Don't fuck with Jack Murphy!").
It was also extremely surreal to see the Jarvis family home from 'Friday The 13th Part 4' used here. Because I've seen F13TH4 so many times, it was almost like 'Murphy's Law' was trespassing on another movie. But anyway...
The thing that let it down a little for me personally, was the terrible (and constant) "hard ass" dialogue from the Arabella character, "snot rag" "butt crust" "snot licking donkey fart"...the list goes on...it is funny in a "what the hell?" kind of way, but it starts to grind your tits into a smooth paste after 10 minutes.