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Released
1990 · FILM

The Last of the Finest

“It's time for heroes again.”

Directed by
John Mackenzie
Written by
Jere Cunningham, Thomas Lee Wright
Runtime
106 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Graham WalkerShot by Juan Ruiz AnchiaScored by Michael HoenigDesigned by Lawrence G Paull

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.5M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$1.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $552K — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $770K — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 424 theaters

Also known as

  • Blue Heat - Einsame Zeit für Heldende
  • Código azules
  • L'Enfer bleufr
  • Punto d'impattoit

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