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City Heat (1984)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 8/06

8/06: Wow, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood are in the same picture for City Heat, but it didn't work.

What an awful film. Clint Eastwood is fine but not right for the role. Either he's miscast or needs a better director. Burt Reynolds is so horrendous that I feel compelled to ask him, "Are you fucking serious?" Some of the reasons why it failed are: too much gunplay, terrible acting, nonexistent story, and bad attempts at neo-noir.

By the way, an executive at Universal Pictures once told Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds the following, respectively, during the same meeting in 1959: "You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam's apple sticks out too far, and you talk too slow" and "You have no talent."

All in all, City Heat is an embarrassing mess.

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