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Although it was undeniably a Bruce Willis vanity project, Hudson Hawk‘s tale of a charming cat burglar-turned pawn-turned unlikely hero isn’t nearly as terrible as reviews might indicate. The problem was that most critics interpreted the flick as a spectacularly boring attempt at box-office excitement likely influenced by Willis’ success in two, action-packed Die Hard films when it was probably never supposed to be particularly high-octane. Instead, Hawk is more of a smartass riff on spy movies starring the ultimate smartass (just look at Bruce Willis’s smirk), a mute David Caruso, Andie McDowell as a nun and Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant as oddball billionaires. In a classic case of too-high expectations, Hawk bombed at the box office with just over $17 million U.S. gross.