Hudson Hawk is one of those famously sucky movies that really isn't that bad. (Damn that's faint praise.) As long as you like Bruce Willis doing Three Stooges, you should do fine. OK, the jokes tend to be stale, the mugging is broad, Andy MacDowell is wet, Willis wears a "Crazy Guggenheim" hat and overcoat, the plot is haphazard,... I'd better stop.
Willis plays Hudson Hawk, recently released cat-burglar who is being pressured to steal the famous Da Vinci Codex from the Vatican. That sounds familiar, but it isn't. The pressure is being applied by his best friend Danny Aiello, rogue CIA agent James Coburn, and a perverse brother and sister team of billionaires played by Sandra Bernhard and some guy who seemed to be working off Gary Oldman's notes from The Fifth Element. David Caruso is in it too.
There are some good extended caper scenes, quoting Topkapi, The Hot Rock, and probably a dozen other caper films. Coburn is saluted with some allusions to The President's Analyst and In Like Flint.
In conclusion, not as good as the Die Hard movies or The Fifth Element, but better than the The Da Vinci Code. Having made that statement, I guess I have to watch The Da Vinci Code. Oh no.
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