"Bruce Willis On The Level" by Tim Appelo (Entertainment Weekly, May 24, 1991)
- Excerpt: Hudson Hawk is shot through with similar mania. "This film is anything goes," says Willis, "in the classic comedy vein of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. It's Cary Grant meets James Bond meets Our Man Flint meets the Flintstones meets Dorothy Lamour meets Miles Davis. Did we leave anything out? The film also has a jazzy cool feel to it, as opposed to rock & roll or country & western or polka."
"Love The Bomb" by Offer Egozy, Student.Com
- Excerpt: "To criticize Hudson Hawk for not fulfilling its genre expectations is like criticizing Dadaists for not explaining their theses. It's a non sequitur; and, if anything, it aims to miss the point."
From an EW On-Line Interview with James Coburn, March 2, 1999
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"They don't know what the hell they want -- that's why so many of these pictures cost so bloody much money."
For example? "We shot over a million feet of film for 'Hudson Hawk,' and about 95 minutes is on the screen," says Coburn of the 1991 Bruce Willis bomb. "All of that was a waste -- it cost $70 or $80 million to make that thing. We could've made 10 'Affliction's for that."
Reviews
Movie Thing.com: "Reviewed and criticized as one of the worst movies ever made, I found this movie awesome!" Mutant Reviewers From Hell: "Willis helped write this story, and it brings out his genius for humor as never seen before."
Bad Movie Night: "Do you like pointless, confused, would-be thrill machines that insult your intelligence?"
LowComDom: "It's cheesy, and ridiculous. It makes no sense much of the time, and those are its good points!"
Washington Post - Joe Brown: "We're talking turkey. Major turkey."
Washington Post - Hal Hinson: "The right sort of hero for this exhilarating, one-of-a-kind movie."
Entertainment Weekly: "Rating: F"
Entertainment Weekly Video Review: "Rating: D+"
