Not many Schwarzenegger movies got a worse IMDB score than this one. I'll go along with that. At the very beginning of this movie, the viewer is shown gratuitous shots of Arnold's naked ass, giving people who enjoy that kind of thing reason enough to praise this movie, but at the same time, symbolizing what I thought of it.I think maybe the worst part of this movie is the dialog. When Jim Belushi said "Stupid G**damn f***ing Russians!" it took all my willpower not to hit the stop button. I like Jim Belushi in just about anything, but his acting was awful in this movie, as was everyone else's. To their credit however, they didn't have much to work with as the writing was atrocious. A five year old could write a more watchable movie. As far as the Russian accents go, the actors take a stereotypical approach, omitting the word "the" while they invoke the phoniest accents I've ever heard. Speaking of bad acting, a must-have for every decent cop movie is a good villain who gives the viewer reason enough to dislike them, but this one tries too hard and by the end of the movie, you don't even care what happens to him.I give this movie three stars and I think that's pretty generous for a movie I will never watch again.

If you were to rank all of Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies, "Red Heat" would place somewhere in the middle (in quality as well as in popularity). It's basic, formulaic cops-and-drug-dealers stuff, but expertly directed by action specialist Walter Hill, who also made other violent buddy-movies like "48 Hours" and its sequel. Arnold has a role here that allows him to use his robotic delivery to his advantage (he is almost like a human Terminator); it's one of his better performances, and he is certainly funnier than his co-star, James Belushi ("Hooligani!"). The bus-chase climax is pretty spectacular. **1/2 out of 4.

"Red Heat" has a great director and two actors ideally suited to its admittedly trite premise, but then takes forty four minutes to get it's nonsensical plot sorted out so that the premise can come to the forefront. After all that it really only has two memorable scenes: the weird bit at the beginning with a unisex Russian spa and Arnie grabbing a burning rock before punching someone, and a bit right at the very end where Arnie and Belushi go after the villain - a perfectly cast Ed O'Ross - in a bus.These were the only bits that showed be something different, and interesting.Aside from that it's the typical mismatched buddy cop movie, with two guys who hate each other at first and then learn to appreciate each other.But it didn't have to take so long to get there. The plot holds us up and needlessly complicates things with something about a key that opens a locker and someone with half a hundred dollar note. You know this stuff isn't really important; it's about the action and the chemistry between our two heroes.You get the latter more than the former.

Red Heat (1988) is American Bad Ass action film my favorite action classic childhood movie. Every time I see it I kept getting excited to see in it again. Red Heat is a buddy routine classic underrated action flick! I grew up with this film and I still love watching it today. Classic 80's action flick with Arnold doing his bad Russian accent and Belushi's hyper kinetics' acting. None the less they have good chemistry together and there's plenty of good one liners and action sequences to make this one very entertaining. Seeing the styles and fashions of the day is pretty funny and brings back lots of good memories from that period. After The Running Man Arnold made Red Heat. At that time it was a quite good film but now the movie looks a little out dated. Between The Terminator and Raw Deal there is Schwarzenegger's Red Heat, the 1988 action peace which also co-stars Jim Belushi who provides the comic relief from the Director who gave us Eddie Murphy in 48 hrs. Red Heat is the typical 80's action cop genre picture Arnold entertained us with during the 80's. This also would mark his last 80's picture he would then be back in 1990's Total Recall and the phenomenal sequel Terminator 2 a year later. But back to this gem. Red Heat is one of Arnie's finest movies. Though not taken seriously by a lot of his fans and fans of the 80's movies. Both Belushi and Arnold deliver really fine performances that match each other well. Of course a very young Gina Gershon makes a little appearance. Still looking exactly the same as she does today. This is one of my favorite Arnold & Belushi movie. Also Gina Gershon and Laurence Fishburne are co staring in this film. Also I think Gina Gershon did terrific job in here she also co started in Steven Seagal's film Out For Justice (1991). This film is very bashed and hated, I grew up with this film. I love that Arnold plays A Russian Cop who fly's in to the States to find and track down a ruthless criminal Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross) to bring him back to Russia. I still think Red Heat is one of Walter Hill's best movies, his first film was 48 Hrs. (1982) with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. I love James Belushi as a street wise detective Art Ridzik. I love his sense of humor and his charm and his outstanding lines. I think he acted very well as Detective in here. The shootouts are a awesome. I love the action scenes especially the opening fight scene in the snow, the hotel shootout and the bus chase (which is one of the more creative ideas I have seen in an action movie chase scene). Another thing I really liked was the "Podbyrin 9.2mm pistol" since I have an interest in guns. Tim Lafrance who was also the armorer on "Miami Vice" built the gun for the film using parts from the famous Walther P-38 to beef up the Desert Eagle, since Walter Hill told him he wanted "A P-38 on steroids". The most funny scene for me is that guy comes to the car when Arnold sits in it and wants to carjack him so Ivan ask: "Do you know Miranda?" the hooligan answers back "Never heard of the bitch." pow, Ivan punches him unconscious. I love the music score by James Horner, he made a perfect music theme for the film.The rating I am giving is 10/10 this movie deserves it. Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action film directed by Walter Hill. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Moscow narc Ivan Danko, and James Belushi, as Chicago detective Art Ridzik. Finding themselves on the same case, Danko and Ridzik work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly Soviet Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), who also happens to be the killer of Danko's previous partner back in Soviet Russia.10/10 Score: A Studio: Carolco Pictures StudioCanal, TriStar Pictures Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, Brion James Director Walter Hill Producers: Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna Screenplay: Walter Hill, Harry Kleiner, Troy Kennedy Martin Story by Walter Hill Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 44 Mins. Budget: $29,000,000 Box Office: $34,994,648