CLIFFHANGER (1993) ** Sylvester Stallone hangs out on mountains, usually in a sweaty t-shirt, is given various reasons to make his sad dog looks, grunts a lot, and finally finds some worthy bad guys whose asses to kick, but it's not classic cinema anyway. The plot ranges between infantile and unrealistic, and the main bad guy, John Lithgow, despite some pretty good lines, comes off as an effete version of Talking Mr. Potato Head trying to look over his shoulder. Janine Turner is given the opportunity to reprise the role from "Northern Exposure" that she did well, but instead spends the entire film trying new variations of irritated and complaining. "People are falling off mountains, there are bad guys with guns, Stallone didn't call me for almost a year, this is my new horse," what won't she whine about, whilst acting tough? Lithgow is the only salvation, quite funny is his coy artistic desperation that doesn't fall anywhere near landing where he cast it.
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