--- product_id: 219991158 title: "The Hard Way [Blu-ray]" price: "3501 kr" currency: ISK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.is/products/219991158-the-hard-way-blu-ray store_origin: IS region: Iceland --- # The Hard Way [Blu-ray] **Price:** 3501 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Hard Way [Blu-ray] - **How much does it cost?** 3501 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.is](https://www.desertcart.is/products/219991158-the-hard-way-blu-ray) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From John Badham, the acclaimed director of Saturday Night Fever, Dracula, Blue Thunder, Stakeout and Bird on a Wire, comes this action-packed crime-comedy starring Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success), James Woods (Cop, The Onion Field), Stephen Lang (Tombstone, Don’t Breathe) and Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). Nick Lang (Fox) is a popular movie star who joins forces with tough New York detective John Moss (Woods) in order to break out of his “nice guy” screen image. On the trail of a ruthless serial killer (Lang), the last thing Moss needs is a pampered Hollywood sidekick, who he finds superficial and irritating. The stellar cast also includes Luis Guzmán (The Limey), LL Cool J (Deep Blue Sea), Delroy Lindo (Clockers), Penny Marshall (TV’s Laverne & Shirley), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family) and Lewis Black (Man of the Year). Special Features: -NEW Audio Commentary with Director John Badham, Producer/Second Unit Director Rob Cohen and Film Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer -Theatrical Trailer -Dual-Layered BD50 Disc -Optional English Subtitles Review: Best Woods and Fox Film - This movie should have got more love when it came out in the theaters. Pick this movie up for a fun, exciting and well-made movie. Great action, acting and humor. Review: Great buddy - cop movie great satire. ASIN#B014J55JZC is all region despite product description. - ASIN#B014J55JZC Is Los Angeles the world capital of palm trees, power lunches and showbiz hype? Is New York a capital of culture loaded with wise guys, ethnic (ill-gotten) riches and the mean, sleazy streets? In The Hard Way, the moviemakers ram these two cliches together with a tongue-in-cheek vengeance. It’s a buddy-buddy movie in which the two main characters--a nail-hard Manhattan homicide cop (James Woods as John Moss) and a winsomely cute action-movie Hollywood superstar (Michael J. Fox as Nick Lang)--become symbols of their respective cities. In it, New York declares warfare on wimp-ridden L.A. and L.A. wins New York over with charm, guile and movie deals. Fox’s Lang and Woods’ Moss, thrown together because the actor is researching the cop for an upcoming movie, are the male-bonding equivalents of the Sylvester and Tweetybird. Their relationship is different, instead of being merely stylized, it's fraught with physical peril. Lang gets hurled head-over-heels out a barroom window; Moss goes flying down the street on a tow-truck’s swinging door. In between them are the love interest (Annabella Sciorra, The Sopranos) and the death interest: a grinning serial killer who calls himself the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Avatar). It’s a big, blowzy, hard-racing, bright movie that comes at you a mile-a minute: hyperactive, packed to the brim, jabbering away like a speed freak. The movie's premise is that movie cops and real-life cops, like L.A. and N.Y., are oil and water--especially when one of them is used to car phones and poolside sushi (then novel) and the other favors a bat on the skull and street vendor hot dogs. The director, John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Blue Thunder and Nick of Time), knows how to handle this kind of big, pop entertainment, and he leaves reality behind quite early. He’s dealing less with impressions than with all the L.A.-N.Y. images sprayed onto the screen in two decades of action movies. His Hard Way is like a conventional, overdressed buddy-buddy cop movie, another Lethal Weapon or Running Scared, with the screening-room wisecracks built right into the script. (Lem Dobbs, well known for Blade Runner and Out of Sight, among others, co-wrote this.) The numerous "inside Hollywood" gags - everything from sequels and promos to Mel Gibson’s rump to Michael J. Fox’s height (the prime running gag in the movie), also point up its main incongruity: the fact that the fantasy land of L.A. seems so much realer than the Manhattan grit. A clever conceit executed flawlessly. Michael J. Fox as Lang is fleeing into the same sort of movie he’s trying to avoid, the kind with Roman numerals in the title--and the whole movie is a rumination on buddy-buddy scripts. The Party Crasher, who often seems like a frustrated screenwriter, composes all his murders on a computer, and at one point Lang bursts in on Moss and announces he knows what’s about to happen because they’ve just reached the “third act.” The characters even flee into one of Lang’s movies (a Raiders of the Lost Ark parody) and, before the end, they’ve gotten swallowed up in the marketing campaign too: all four of them clambering around a huge three-dimensional billboard with Lang’s face puffing smoke into the Times Square night. Keep in mind that this pre-dated the awful The Last Action Hero by several years. The Hard Way (rated R) is loud, brash, racy and, on its own shallow terms, very entertaining. Die-hard fans of buddy-cop movies will appreciate the often sarcastic dialogue, the garish over-the-top flamboyance with which Badham and the screenwriters hurl around all the cliches of the genre, from “Hill Street Blues” station-house clutter to the monstrous super-villain. Playing the maniacal Crasher, Stephen Lang has Rutger Hauer’s intensity and Ron Liebman’s wolfish smile; he’s a real scene-chewer. Some viewers might not dig the unrelenting, unmodulated tempo, the crash-bang cartoon simplifications and the silly way the tag-team of screenwriters drag in Moss’ romance and turn it into a triangle. Trapped between Woods and Fox, Annabella Sciorra’s Susan might as well be walking around wearing a sandwich board emblazoned “Obligatory Girlfriend” on one side and “Humanizing Element” on the other. But it’s Woods and Fox who are the movie’s core. They’re an interesting duo. Often they seem to be in the middle of an actor’s duel, pushing their roles naturally to the edge of caricature--and their best scene is a male-bonding homoerotic sendup staged in that manliest of manliest Manhattan bar, McSorley’s. Badham directs the dialogue as if he were trying to remake His Girl Friday or any number of thirties screwball comedies - the actors are constantly stepping on each others lines - adding to the furious pace. Woods uses his trademark bantering, live-wire intensity to extravagant satiric effect, jamming down hard on every phrase, letting his chin dart around like a skinny Mussolini. Fox counters by continually flickering his eyes around in those hurt, "aw shucks", boyish looks of his, biting his lip, letting eyes brush around the room, plaintively. (Lang/Fox, of course worships the "real McCoy" Woods.) Standing in for the Big Apple and La La-land, Woods dynamically plays the abrasive cynic to Fox’s comically pretentious, laid-back dilettante. They’re great together. Also features Delroy Lindo and Luis Guzman.The Good sound and picture. Option English and Spanish subtitles. No extras. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | James Woods, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Lang | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 877 Reviews | | Format | Anamorphic, NTSC, Subtitled | | Genre | Action & Adventure, Comedy | | Language | English | | Runtime | 1 hour and 51 minutes | ## Product Details - **Genre:** Action & Adventure, Comedy - **Format:** Anamorphic, NTSC, Subtitled - **Contributor:** James Woods, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Lang - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 51 minutes ## Images ![The Hard Way [Blu-ray] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81J4tgZ+FCL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Woods and Fox Film *by D***K on October 19, 2024* This movie should have got more love when it came out in the theaters. Pick this movie up for a fun, exciting and well-made movie. Great action, acting and humor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great buddy - cop movie great satire. ASIN#B014J55JZC is all region despite product description. *by A***. on January 18, 2019* ASIN#B014J55JZC Is Los Angeles the world capital of palm trees, power lunches and showbiz hype? Is New York a capital of culture loaded with wise guys, ethnic (ill-gotten) riches and the mean, sleazy streets? In The Hard Way, the moviemakers ram these two cliches together with a tongue-in-cheek vengeance. It’s a buddy-buddy movie in which the two main characters--a nail-hard Manhattan homicide cop (James Woods as John Moss) and a winsomely cute action-movie Hollywood superstar (Michael J. Fox as Nick Lang)--become symbols of their respective cities. In it, New York declares warfare on wimp-ridden L.A. and L.A. wins New York over with charm, guile and movie deals. Fox’s Lang and Woods’ Moss, thrown together because the actor is researching the cop for an upcoming movie, are the male-bonding equivalents of the Sylvester and Tweetybird. Their relationship is different, instead of being merely stylized, it's fraught with physical peril. Lang gets hurled head-over-heels out a barroom window; Moss goes flying down the street on a tow-truck’s swinging door. In between them are the love interest (Annabella Sciorra, The Sopranos) and the death interest: a grinning serial killer who calls himself the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Avatar). It’s a big, blowzy, hard-racing, bright movie that comes at you a mile-a minute: hyperactive, packed to the brim, jabbering away like a speed freak. The movie's premise is that movie cops and real-life cops, like L.A. and N.Y., are oil and water--especially when one of them is used to car phones and poolside sushi (then novel) and the other favors a bat on the skull and street vendor hot dogs. The director, John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Blue Thunder and Nick of Time), knows how to handle this kind of big, pop entertainment, and he leaves reality behind quite early. He’s dealing less with impressions than with all the L.A.-N.Y. images sprayed onto the screen in two decades of action movies. His Hard Way is like a conventional, overdressed buddy-buddy cop movie, another Lethal Weapon or Running Scared, with the screening-room wisecracks built right into the script. (Lem Dobbs, well known for Blade Runner and Out of Sight, among others, co-wrote this.) The numerous "inside Hollywood" gags - everything from sequels and promos to Mel Gibson’s rump to Michael J. Fox’s height (the prime running gag in the movie), also point up its main incongruity: the fact that the fantasy land of L.A. seems so much realer than the Manhattan grit. A clever conceit executed flawlessly. Michael J. Fox as Lang is fleeing into the same sort of movie he’s trying to avoid, the kind with Roman numerals in the title--and the whole movie is a rumination on buddy-buddy scripts. The Party Crasher, who often seems like a frustrated screenwriter, composes all his murders on a computer, and at one point Lang bursts in on Moss and announces he knows what’s about to happen because they’ve just reached the “third act.” The characters even flee into one of Lang’s movies (a Raiders of the Lost Ark parody) and, before the end, they’ve gotten swallowed up in the marketing campaign too: all four of them clambering around a huge three-dimensional billboard with Lang’s face puffing smoke into the Times Square night. Keep in mind that this pre-dated the awful The Last Action Hero by several years. The Hard Way (rated R) is loud, brash, racy and, on its own shallow terms, very entertaining. Die-hard fans of buddy-cop movies will appreciate the often sarcastic dialogue, the garish over-the-top flamboyance with which Badham and the screenwriters hurl around all the cliches of the genre, from “Hill Street Blues” station-house clutter to the monstrous super-villain. Playing the maniacal Crasher, Stephen Lang has Rutger Hauer’s intensity and Ron Liebman’s wolfish smile; he’s a real scene-chewer. Some viewers might not dig the unrelenting, unmodulated tempo, the crash-bang cartoon simplifications and the silly way the tag-team of screenwriters drag in Moss’ romance and turn it into a triangle. Trapped between Woods and Fox, Annabella Sciorra’s Susan might as well be walking around wearing a sandwich board emblazoned “Obligatory Girlfriend” on one side and “Humanizing Element” on the other. But it’s Woods and Fox who are the movie’s core. They’re an interesting duo. Often they seem to be in the middle of an actor’s duel, pushing their roles naturally to the edge of caricature--and their best scene is a male-bonding homoerotic sendup staged in that manliest of manliest Manhattan bar, McSorley’s. Badham directs the dialogue as if he were trying to remake His Girl Friday or any number of thirties screwball comedies - the actors are constantly stepping on each others lines - adding to the furious pace. Woods uses his trademark bantering, live-wire intensity to extravagant satiric effect, jamming down hard on every phrase, letting his chin dart around like a skinny Mussolini. Fox counters by continually flickering his eyes around in those hurt, "aw shucks", boyish looks of his, biting his lip, letting eyes brush around the room, plaintively. (Lang/Fox, of course worships the "real McCoy" Woods.) Standing in for the Big Apple and La La-land, Woods dynamically plays the abrasive cynic to Fox’s comically pretentious, laid-back dilettante. They’re great together. Also features Delroy Lindo and Luis Guzman.The Good sound and picture. Option English and Spanish subtitles. No extras. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just happy fun *by R***N on February 13, 2026* Very, very funny! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.is/products/219991158-the-hard-way-blu-ray](https://www.desertcart.is/products/219991158-the-hard-way-blu-ray) --- *Product available on Desertcart Iceland* *Store origin: IS* *Last updated: 2026-05-21*