Lightning Jack

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