Lightning Jack

John Chard

2018-09-30

⭐ 6

Is this Kane able? Lightning Jack is directed by Simon Wincer and written by Paul Hogan. Hogan stars as the title character and he’s supported by Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D’Angelo, Pat Hingle and L.Q. Jones. Music is by Bruce Rowland and cinematography by David Eggby. Having burst onto the scene in movie world with Crocodile Dundee in 1986, Paul Hogan it seemed was set for a tilt at being a fully fledged film star. As it transpired, in spite of the first Dundee sequel proving popular, Hogan didn’t have much of a film career at all. So it’s with great interest to revisit his non Dundee f…

Wuchak

2023-12-31

⭐ 7

**_Crocodile Dundee in the Old West_** When Cole Younger’s gang is involved in a robbery-gone-wrong in a town in the Southwest, the lone survivor, Jack Kane (Paul Hogan), acquires a mute newbie partner (Cuba Gooding Jr.). He wants to make one last big score before moving to New York with his saloon lass (Beverly D'Angelo). "Lightning Jack" (1994) is an amusing Western starring Hogan, but it’s not an all-out comedy like, say, “Blazing Saddles.” Ball-park comparisons include “The War Wagon,” “Sam Whiskey,” “Something Big,” "Cattle Annie and Little Britches," “Maverick” and “The Lone Ranger…