LIGHTNING JACK (PG)
D: Simon Wincer
Buena Vista/Village Roadshow (Paul Hogan, Greg Coote &
Simon Wincer)
Australia 1994
93 mins
Comedy/Western
W: Paul Hogan
DP: David Eggby
Ed: O. Nicholas Brown
Mus: Bruce Rowland
PD: Bernard Hides
Paul Hogan (Lightning Jack Kane), Cuba Gooding, Jr., (Ben
Doyle), Beverly D'Angelo (Lana Castel), Pat Hingle (US Marshal Dan Kurtz), L.Q. Jones (Sheriff)
Eight years after the initial success of Crocodile Dundee,
Australian comedy actor Paul Hogan attempted to rejuvenate his career as Lightning Jack, an illiterate gunslinging outlaw, partnered with a mute black sidekick (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
It has a handful of funny moments, but is indistinctly average
overall. Still, it's an improvement over the third Crocodile Dundee outing (released in 2001).
5/10