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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
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326.0. "The Real McCoy" by ACESMK::CHELSEA (Mostly harmless.) Mon Sep 13 1993 18:21

    This is a standard caper picture, competently made.
    
    Karen McCoy (Kim Basinger) is a paroled bank robber trying to build a
    new life when she's coerced into pulling one more job.  You can fill in
    the rest of the plot from this point.  The trailers would have you
    believe that this is a buddy picture with Basinger and Val Kilmer. 
    Strangely enough, this aspect of things is pretty much neglected.  Net
    result:  Basinger pretty much has to carry the film herself. 
    Fortunately, she's up to it.
    
    Afterwards, I realized that McCoy could have been male, and it wouldn't 
    have made any significant difference.  A pleasant surprise, but perhaps
    just an indication of how standard it was.
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326.1Disappointed29067::J_RABKETue Sep 14 1993 11:3819
    Kim Basinger does a good job with a BAD Script
    Spoiler Warning
    She is supposed to be a sophisticated/ high tech safe cracker...
    So when she needs to get into the cabin where the parole officer has
    her kid, what does she do? She SMASHES the glass?
    When the parole officer finds himself facing the tiger... he RUNS?
    Hey stupid, what about using the SHOTGUN you're carrying, duh..
    When she finally beats up on the Parole officer and then drops the
    shotgun at his feet. I hate, when the unarmed hero/heroine disarm an
    opponent and then leave the weapon for the opponent to recover. The
    only realistic scene of this type was in the Steve McQueen/ Tom Horn
    movie, where McQueen (Horn) shoots the ambusher in the street.
    If she was such a great safe cracker, why didn't she have any money
    socked away? 
    I predict: this will be in the $1 cinema/video store before the month
    is out
    
    Regards
    JDR
326.27892::BUSY::SLABOUNTYI'm just a little crazy.Mon Aug 15 1994 17:1418
    
    	I liked it, but I think I was expection more action than
    	what was here.  It was more of a "family drama", it seems,
    	than a cops/robbers movie.
    
    	Spoiler comment:
    
    
    	And the parole officer gets rammed through the gate into the
    	"wilderness", has the sense to grab his shotgun for protect-
    	ion, but doesn't have the sense to go back through the gaping
    	hole created by his car and instead goes right to the intact
    	section of the fence.
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI
326.3ISIDRO::LUISGONSat Feb 18 1995 15:495
I saw it yesterday, and it was even worse than expected.

Did you ever see McGyver on TV ? Much better than this film

Luis
326.4BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTYTrouble with a capital 'T'Mon Feb 20 1995 08:446
    
    	Well, I don't think the main intent of this movie was to be
    	better than McGyver.
    
    	They're different, after all, and really not very similar.