a5c7b9f00b Los Angeles Outlaws receiver Terry Brogan is cut from the team because of a shoulder injury. Needing work, money and a sense of purpose, Terry gets a lucrative short term job with an old acquaintance, nightclub owner Jake Wise. The job is to locate his girlfriend who is hiding out somewhere in the Mayan Riviera. The girlfriend, Jessie Wyler, just happens to be the adoptive daughter of the Outlaws' ruthless owner, Grace Wyler. Jessie doesn't much like her mother, who in turn doesn't like that Jessie's in a relationship with Jake, a man known to be on the wrong side of the law. Once Terry finds Jessie, she is waiting for him, or at least someone sent by Jake. But without telling Jake, Terry decides to quit his jobhe is falling in love with Jessie, who seems also to be falling in love with him. But it isn't until they get back to Los Angeles that Terry slowly sees the big picture of where he fits into Jake's life and to what extent Jake will go to get Jessie back.
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.
I expected a cringefest, but actually ended up liking this movie a lot. Befitting its era, it has a sleazy "Miami Vice" atmosphere, complete with Porsches, Ferraris, casual jackets, big hair and a great soundtrack including a live show by the one and only Kid Creole. But there's more. Nice location shoots in Mexico - Cozumel, Tulum and Chichen Itza. Jeff Bridges and James Woods, who play fairly complex characters well. A dark script that delivers some good moments, especially during the final 30 minutes.<br/><br/>Yes, it's a B-movie, and at times it feels like a protracted episode of Knight Rider, the A-Team or the aforementioned Miami Vice. But is that a bad thing? <br/><br/>If you're looking for a real 80s experience, find "Against All Odds" on VHS, pop it in your VCR and soak it in.
The knock on 1980s movies is that they sacrifice substance for style, leaning too hard on whiz-bang visuals and MTV video aesthetics at the expense of character and story. Like every such generalization, it's not strictly true, but you would be excused thinking otherwise after watching this 1984 crime drama.<br/><br/>Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) is a pro football player suddenly cut from the Los Angeles Outlaws on bogus terms. Sleazy gambling buddy Jake Wise (James Woods) offers him some needed funds in exchange for Terry finding a mysterious woman who stabbed Jake, stole his money, and fled to the Mayan ruins of Mexico. When Brogan discovers this woman, Jessie, looks exactly like Rachel Ward in her gravity-defying heyday, he decides on a new plan involving much sex and tequila. Naturally, things get crazy, setting in motion murder, heartbreak, and an emotive Phil Collins ballad.<br/><br/>Based loosely on the classic noir firm "Out Of The Past", "Against All Odds" is best known today for the Phil Collins tune. It's a classy song that emotes a lot but doesn't overstay its welcome. At two hours, you can't say the same of the film.<br/><br/>When we first see Terry, he's walking around Mexico showing an old photo of Jessie to random passersby. This shouldn't work, except of course its a movie. Bridges looks great with a lean build, a tan, shades, and a beard that makes him look like a cross between Dan Fouts and Kenny Rogers. He has good chemistry with Woods, here debuting his hard-guy-in-a-suit who would brighten many a film over the next two decades.<br/><br/>Director Taylor Hackford gets the visual elements right, but the story feelslostTerry in his opening scene, especially when it is complicated by a L.A. real estate venture and Jake's gambling activities. More than most '80s films, the plot seems to do little more than whisk the characters from one exotic locale to another.<br/><br/>The "Out Of The Past" connection works only to the detriment of this film,the plot of the Robert Mitchum film followed a more straightforward path, and gave us a central female figure in Jane Greer who is one of the great femme fatales in cinema. Ward, by contrast, is painfully unsteadyshe wears her heart way too far out on her sleeve.<br/><br/>"Can't anyone love me without it being life or death?" she cries out, a line she delivers so badly you wince from watching it. Judging Ward's acting skills is unfair, given the fact she must spout lines like this with painful regularity.<br/><br/>Alex KarrasTerry's trainer is justawfulWard, and not nearlymuch fun to look at, showing up out of nowhere in the middle of Terry and Jessie's most heated lovemaking session to up the ante on the film's unbelievability quotient.<br/><br/>I enjoy its aesthetic, very "Miami Vice" with more earth tones and good musical segues. Hackford is always terrific at that, anyway. The sex scenes got a lot of attention in 1984, though they are actually subtle by today's standards. Ward and Bridges sure can kiss at any rate, which helps keep dialogue to a minimum.<br/><br/>"I wish I'd seen you play football," she says.<br/><br/>"I could see how Jake would go crazy without you," he replies.<br/><br/>Dumb characters are at the heart of a successful film noir, but the passion that usually guides them to their doom feels tacked on here. As an ambiance bath, "Against All Odds" has something going for it, in Bridges' lazy effectivenessa romantic foil and Woods' nicely underplayed menace. But even the noirish darkness of the last scenes can't conceal the weaknesses of this overstudied, underbaked time capsule.
There is a lot of plot in this movie - probably too much. The best thing to do is to accept the plot, and then disregard it, and pay attention to the scenes of passion. They really work.

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