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The Real McCoy (1993)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
10/21
10/21:
A female version of Mission: Impossible, The Real McCoy is
as mundane as it gets by using recycled concepts from every complex bank heist picture made.
Kim Basigner is beautiful but isn't exciting enough for an action star; she seems rather bored. Surprisingly
ineffectual, Val Kilmer follows her lead while contributing nothing of significance. Ditto for Terence Stamp.
The rest of the cast is filled with no-names. There's zero thought put into character development, setting up
The Real McCoy as a run-of-the-mill flick. The mother-son subplot does nothing, either.
I wish, at the beginning, there was an explanation of what Karen McCoy did do to be caught before getting sent
to prison for six years. For a smart woman like her, she, once out, should be able to get jobs easily despite
her criminal record. Then again, her taste in men leaves a lot to be desired (see the ex-husband for reference).
By the way, how did he enter the airport with a gun, and how was she able to go through the X-ray machine with
three million dollars in the bag? Why rob banks physically when hacking into a bank system poses less risk?
As for the title, nobody knows where the phrase "the real McCoy" originated from although it may be a varation
of "the real MacKay" which first appeared in 1856. It means "the real thing" or "the genuine article." I guess
Karen McCoy fits the bill because she knows how to rob a bank while others like J.T. Barker will mess it up in
the first minute by stepping into the building.
All in all, would Kim Basinger's life have been dramatically different if she skipped The Real McCoy to
star in Boxing Helena instead of the other way around which caused her
to declare bankruptcy in 1993?