Hudson Hawk (1991) review

Fresh out of Sing-Sing, professional thief Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) is forcibly recruited by various persons - including Darwin Mayflower (Richard E. Grant) and CIA officer Kaplan (James Coburn) - to steal several works by Leonardo di Vinci that secretly contain pieces of a machine that can turn lead into gold ... which would harm the world's economy.  This has a reputation for being a Box Office Bomb and "one of the worst films of all time," but you can't say it's for lack of trying: it's hammy and buffoonish (I didn't laugh once at the umpteen one-liners) with everyone trying to out "act" each other (to quote a line from the movie, "Subtlety is not one of my strong points"), but it does have some pleasingly quirky elements, like Hawk's ability to memorize song lengths and finding himself riding on a hospital gurney in the middle of the highway.  New Jersey's own Willis may regret doing it to this very day, but one could argue his many direct-to-video movies are considerably less imaginative.