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Title: Walter Hill directs a terrific cast in New Orleans film noir
Review: Along with "Southern Comfort", "Hard Times" and "Geronamo", this film noir set in New Orleans is one of director Walter Hill's best work. With a sultry blues score by Ry Cooder and a terrific cast headed by Mickey Rourke in the title role along with Morgan Freeman as the greek chorus, Elisabeth McGovern (the love interest), Forrest Whittaker as a kindly surgeon, Ellen Barkin as a fatal femme fatale and Lance Henrickson as her partner in crime, "Johnny Handsome" never lets up in the action and tension that ensues when a career criminal (Rourke) tries out a life changing operation. There's a slam bang robbery heist that goes south plus a dynamic conclusion to this under-rated film noir that will leave you breathless, thanks to Hill's direction. If you like your films down and dirty--this is it!! One of Rourke's best films along with "Barfly" and the recent "Wrestler".
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