Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

10 seconds and we already see leather jackets, titties and a guy leaving the titties with a smile in a fog of his own cigarette smoke. Naturally the next 2 minutes he drives through the desert on a hog... OK. Women need not watch. This, my friends, is as testosterone-based as the late eighties could be. In the early nineties. Then, of course, Rourke stops a hold-up at gunpoint with gritty violence before some stripping and more titties introduce Don Johnson. Within 10 minutes in total runningtime you can even add a bar fight and some knife-play. Effective entertainment indeed.

Bros before whoes is ridiculously clear in every aspect, and the story is thinner than...Hm. Well, let's say say they dumbed down the heist part of "The Blues Brothers". There are good guys (though they are clearly violent criminals and thieves) and bad guys (so bad that they have matching leather coats and a complete lack of mimics).

Although it is very normal to see Tom Sizemore as a bad, bad man, it is refreshing to see him as the boss. In a suit no less! Although he has been better. Quite a lot better. There is nothing wrong with parts of the cast here though as the leads are flanked by Chelsea Field and a suitably robot-henchman Baldwin.

There is, apart from the aforementioned chauvinism, an exceptional disregard for life among the baddies and good guys alike. But it's all in good fun, if that's a consolation. The humor isn't bad either, with Rourke's shooting an original and funny angle.

If what you're looking for is a thoroughly stupid and testosterone-based piece of sheer entertainment, well I suppose you can do better. But not clearer. A lot of these flicks were made, none quite as exceptionally high on testosterone and gasoline (bombs) and very few as low on realism. Seriously, the tagline was "It's better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool". Oh, and their best friend's name is Jack Daniels... Johnson's woman is Virginia Slim... right....

But there are many smirks and grins and, if you're a guy, you'll never really be bored.

5/10