Best Defense (1984)

• Year: 1984
• Released: 20 Jul 1984
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086955/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/best_defense
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/best-defense
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, War
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Robert Grossbach, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
• Director: Willard Huyck
• Cast: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
• Keywords: army, kgb, middle east, engineer, error,

	3.8/10
	29/100

Best Defense Storyline

In 1982 Wylie is working for a company located in a former bowling alley which is about to go under. In 1984 Lt. Landry is demonstrating a tank in Kuwait that causes chaos. This is confusing, but the events are related. Wiley meets a man in a bar who is designing technology for a tank and is about to meet with KGB spy Jeff. Fearing what may happen (and he is right), he sneaks his design into Wylie’s briefcase. Wylie finds the technology, and given that he will save his company by doing so, he reluctantly goes along with a co-worker’s scheme to pass the work off as his own. The technology doesn’t work perfectly but it can be improved. Wylie secretly asks a co-worker to investigate the plan further and discovers even worse problems. During all this Wylie also cheats on his wife with boss Clair and runs for his life from Jeff and other goons. Landry has troubles of his own. With plenty of silliness from the natives. In the end, one has to wonder if Wylie can fix the problems before Landry gets blown up by a tank that has already performed poorly.

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two leading comedic actors and they never meet

In 1982 California, Wylie Cooper (Dudley Moore) is an incompetent engineer building the latest super tank’s dyp gyro. He and Laura (Kate Capshaw) have a young son. The company is failing and it’s all down to his work. Clair Lewis (Helen Shaver) is his supervisor and Steve Loparino (George Dzundza) is his co-worker. In 1984 Kuwait, Lieutenant T.M. Landry (Eddie Murphy) commands the super tank demonstrating for the local Sheikh. Neither man meets each other but they are undeniably connected.

These are two of the more compelling comedic actors of their times. It’s a real headscratcher why they aren’t acting together in this movie. Instead of Dzundza, there’s no reason why they couldn’t put in Eddie Murphy in that role. It would be the same screen time. Back in the day, I found this movie functionally average with two comedians I love. Looking at it with modern eyes, there is a bit of cartoon racism everywhere and I don’t like Wylie’s roaming eyes for his boss. The bumbling international espionage is stupid and a muddled mess. The central flaw of separating these two hot comedic actors is inexcusable. It’s the final flaw that drives loving these actors into not liking this movie.

unfunny,juvenile,infantile

i’m not sure how else to say it.the above summary pretty much describes my feelings on this movie.add to that,lots of crude language for no apparent reason,and you have the recipe for a bad movie.there is some language that Christians might be offended by.***possible minor spoiler***Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy appear in this movie,but as far as i know,they don’t share any scenes together.at least they didn’t through the forty minutes i was able to watch before quitting.***end of spoiler***.I found Murphy more annoying than anything,and Moore didn’t really leave much of an impression at all.in all pretty much a waste of time.pretty close to awful,in fact.for me,Best Defense is a 2/10

Appalling tripe

Best Defense is one of the worst films I have ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. An unfunny, misogynist script (apparently co-written by a woman!) coupled with a leering performance by Dudley Moore and an apparently unrelated tank ride by Eddie Murphy all add up to a disaster.