The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout (1991) is a Tony Scott action thriller you can watch online on iFILM, with Bruce Willis as a burnt-out detective dragging himself through the wreckage of Los Angeles. He once took a bullet for the President. Now he wakes up hungover in a beat-up car, broke and barely speaking to his family.

Joe Hallenbeck takes an easy job guarding a club dancer. Then she gets shot, and easy goes out the window. Her boyfriend is Jimmy Dix, a former star quarterback the league dumped over a drug habit, and he wants answers as badly as Joe does. The two can't stand each other, yet they're the only ones digging into the blackmail, payoffs and rigged games hiding under pro football. Damon Wayans plays the partner; a very young Halle Berry turns up early on.

Screenwriter Shane Black stacks the film with razor-sharp insults and a body count to match, while Scott shoots rain-soaked LA like a music video with guns. It's the buddy-action blueprint of the early nineties: violent, funny, endlessly quotable. Stream The Last Boy Scout (1991) online on iFILM.