I mean did Gibson and Glover ever appear in a drunk scene quite like the one here? In this one, Chapin and Hutton meet for a few beers at the latter's house and all I can say is it looks like they have had their drinks spiked as their acting suggests that they are tripping on acid as opposed to being ripped on alcohol. And I might actually prefer Stuart Chapin and Rif Hutton to Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Oddly enough, this doesn't effect the enjoyment level of the film very much at all, as it's not especially expensive to make an action thriller if you do it without any star names. It follows the basic template quite closely but obviously with hugely lower production values. As you might have guessed already, Shotgun is essentially a Lethal Weapon rip-off. Add to this a shot of a man being thrown into a pile of cardboard boxes from three separate angles, a badge handing-in scene, an angry chief, an arrogant lawyer villain, lots of prostitutes, people dancing in suits, a man being set on fire and then run over by a car, etc etc you get the general idea. The soundtrack consists of many guitar solos and a theme song about the title hero. Take the scenes near the end where Jones and his buddy more or less build a tank out of scrap metal – pure hokum but oh so much fun. This is the joy of Shotgun in general, in that everything is played deadly seriously while at the same time being quite magnificently ridiculous. Stuart Chapin plays the title character perfectly with zero irony and humour this makes him all the funnier of course.
It's central character is called Ian 'Shotgun' Jones and he is on the hunt for a sadistic misogynistic maniac in a gimp suit. Shotgun is without doubt a cliché-fest and I love it for it.
You may have encountered the above scenario a few times before. Two cops two different cops one white, one black one officious and one who doesn't play by the rules.
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