5/10
Hudson Hawkess......
26 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight.

But then her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist....

This film is just basically the dramatic version of the notorious Bruce Willis vanity project 'Hudson Hawk', but with all the entertainment and fun taken out of it.

The film disappeared without a trace when released here in November 1993, and if my facts are correct, I don't think it's ever been screened on T.V.

Basinger is fine as the titular character, forced into one last job when her son is taken by General Zod, and her parole officer. But she get's to know her son, even though he thinks she is just a friend, and her real mother is dead.

Hence 'The Real McCoy'.

Val Kilmer visits from the set of True Romance as the potential love interest, but he mugs his way through his scenes, and acts like a complete and utter ego maniac, maybe life imitating art.

It's not very exciting, the crew never appear to be in any danger, and then it finishes, where everyone predictably lives happily ever after.

She should have stuck with Boxing Helena, it may be just as bad, but at least it's well remembered.
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