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Red Heat
1988
· Movie
· 104 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4105
- IMDb #4176
- Rotten Tomatoes #3551
- Metacritic #2211
- Letterboxd #4015
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2893
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4664
- Metacritic Critics #2400
- Metacritic Audience #1969
- Criticker #3273
- Kinopoisk #3222
- AlloCiné #4473
- Trakt #4217
Every rating
32–78
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 32, highest is Google on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A tough, by-the-book Soviet policeman is sent to Chicago to escort a captured Georgian drug lord back to Russia. When the criminal escapes, he is forced to partner with a loudmouthed American detective to track him down. The two cops from opposite sides of the world must overcome their cultural differences to recapture the fugitive.
Details
- Director
- Walter Hill
- Writers
- Harry Kleiner, Troy Kennedy Martin, Walter Hill
- Studio
- Carolco Pictures, Lone Wolf, Oak Pictures
- Released
- 17 June 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $29.0M
- Box office
- $35.0M
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