Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

Director: Simon Wincer
Writer: Don Michael Paul
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin,
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is one of those childhood movies I remember as cool and funny, and as most of them it can't live up to the memories. Both Johnson and Rourke are less cool than remembered, the story is bordering on cliched and it lacks in a few other departments as well.

Still. At least they wasn't afraid to let some good guys hit the dust, a couple of the build up scenes are quite cool and entertaining and some of the one-liners still work almost twenty years later. It's popcorn the way it was served in the late 80's and the early 90's, and as such it still works remarkably well. At least well enough, I'll not keep on pointing towards its weaker sides.

It's better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool.