Every Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Walter Hill was the granddaddy of the buddy cop genre. The writer and director kickstarted the entire trend with .48 Hrs - the film that launched Eddie Murphy's film career - and returned to the niche with 1988's Red Heat, a Cold War action-comedy that paired a Soviet cop with a Chicago detective. The former role was inhabited by Arnold Schwarzenegger, while the latter was brought to life by James Belushi.

While thoroughly watchable and replete with some all-timer Arnold moments (especially the "cocainum!" bit), Red Heat is no .48 Hrs, with Hill deploying all the expected trappings of an "East meets West" story without the chemistry or action to mitigate the lack of invention. Ivan Danko is certainly one of Schwarzenegger's more memorable characters, and it's entertaining in a way you'd expect any eighties Arnie film to be, but Red Heat itself is far from his top tier.