Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Desperate Hours
1990

Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Lindsay Crouse, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers

Michael Cimino is behind the camera and there's a brilliant cast in front of it, but this is an absolutely ghastly remake of the 1955 film which sterred Humphrey Bogart. Mickey Rourke plays an allegedly ingenious criminal who breaks out from jail and takes a family hostage. However, the second half of the story requires him to be as stupid as a bag of hammers.