Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash is the ultimate buddy cop guilty pleasure: Stallone as the slick, suit-wearing Ray Tango, Kurt Russell as the sloppy, wisecracking Gabe Cash, and Jack Palance as a drug lord who frames them both. The chemistry between Stallone and Russell is electric despite the troubled production (the original director was fired mid-shoot), and the film’s shower scene where they compare physiques has become an accidental icon of homoerotic action cinema. The RV-monster-truck assault on the villain’s compound in the finale is gleefully stupid, and Stallone and Russell trade one-liners with the ease of men who know they’re making a big, dumb movie and are having the time of their lives doing it.