"I can't tell you how happy I am that we covered our tracks."
Just prior to his release from Sing Sing after 10 years, cat burglar Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis, who wrote the story) his parole officer (Burtt Harris) tries to get Hawk to do one more heist -- steal the Leonardo da Vinci Sforza, a machine for creating bronze from lead -- from an auction house. Hawk refuses and blithly walks free determined to be an ordinary honest person.
But he's met at the gate by his old pal Tommy Five-Tone (Danny Aiello) who also wants him to do the heist. All Hawk wants is a cappaccino. But he and Tommy hatch a plan and before long, the Sforza is liberated.
The next day Hawk is forced to steal the da Vinci's codex by the financiers, Darwin and Sandra Mayflower (Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernhard). He has no choice. He has to do it or Tommy dies. The codex theft leads to one more theft that will complete the information needed to make the Sforza work.
Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, Don Harvey, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone also appear. William Conrad narrates.
Silly and busy and fast-paced and totally implausible, but fun.
Directored by Michael Lehmann.
Run time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Rated R for language.
My personal rating: B
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