Blu-ray Review – Tough Guys

I'm sure they never intended to become a team, but audiences were certainly interested in the on-screen pairing of acting legends Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. They collaborated on several pictures, including "Seven Days in May," "The Devil's Disciple," and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," merging their meaty sense of performance and tremendous charisma, forming an unusual but successful partnership, and one that faded away for a few decades while both actors had to figure out how to age in Hollywood, finding their position in a rapidly changing industry. Their reunion of sorts is "Tough Guys," a 1986 comedy from director Jeff Kanew ("Revenge of the Nerds," "Troop Beverly Hills"), which deals directly with the autumnal years for Douglas and Lancaster, using their senior status to participate in the "old people still got heart" movement of the mid-'80s, coming a year after the release of Ron Howard's "Cocoon." "Tough Guys" isn't a thrill-a-minute effort, but it does know what to do with its leading men, staying out of their way as Douglas and Lancaster revive their practiced dynamic for one last go-around, out to prove to the audience that they still pack quite a punch, often quite literally. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com