Don Johnson is none the even worse for wear in the first “Nash Bridges” reunion film, premiering Saturday (Nov. 27) at 9 p.m. on Usa.
Positive, he’s 71 yrs old now and sporting a clueless goatee (is that intended to make him glance more youthful?), but he’s at ease in his pores and skin as Nash Bridges, the tough-charging, rule-bending Inspector for the SFPD nevertheless operating with his longtime husband or wife, Joe Dominguez (Cheech Marin, now 75 and on the lookout a bit bored) in current-working day San Francisco.
That rule-bending will get Nash into issues in the opening sequence — a high-pace automobile chase entire with pyrotechnics and squealing tires that receives him suspended from the pressure for what is supposed to be two weeks. “Your cowboy cop times are over,” his manager, Lieutenant Lena Harris (Diarra Kilpatrick), tells him. But are they?
Cut to a yr later and Nash, continue to suspended and doing the job as a aspect-time limo driver and bounty hunter (yep), is introduced back again onto the power by New Age-y, politically correct SIU cop Steve Colton (Joe Dinicol). Nash phone calls him “a millennial snowflake” and his investigative methods, which include calling perps by their initial names during interrogation out of respect, get on his Nash’s nerves. Cue the gruff more mature cop vs. the by-the-e book novice trope. Colton asks Nash’s help in tracking down the “Sunset Serial Killer” — who’s been terrorizing the city — and he, in change, talks Joe, who’s now working a pot dispensary known as Joe’s Barbary Coast (tagline: “Let’s be blunt: Joe appreciates his stuff”), to be part of him as a specialist. The murders are connected to an underground planet and (of training course) a gazillionaire tech expert. You will discover out the relaxation if you watch the film.
Lovers of the authentic series, which aired on CBS from 1996-2001, will be forgiven if they feel like they’ve stepped into a time equipment. There is a great deal of violence (I misplaced keep track of of the amount of people today shot to demise), gory combat scenes and overactive audio consequences (tons of splats) that harken again to the CBS variation. But that’s Ok in the context of a reunion film. Why meddle with a verified method? If it ain’t broke, never repair it, even if it is two a long time afterwards (it’s all about the nostalgia variable). Steve Franks has finished a wonderful task of this with his a few “Psych” reunion movies, which also air on Usa, so maybe the network execs ended up considering alongside these strains in bringing again “Nash Bridges.”
Jeff Perry returns as shut-in tech-head Harvey Leek — who hasn’t left his household in around 6 several years — as does Nash’s yellow Barracuda convertible, a fixture in the initial sequence. There’s some lip support compensated to today’s periods, together with a trans SIU colleague, Chloe Zane (Alexia Garcia), and Nash mentions his (unseen) developed daughter, Cassidy, in passing (she’s doing the job for Amy Intelligence). She was played in the first series by Jodi Lynn O’Keefe. Angela Ko and Paul James round out the SIU crew as Ellie Tang and Keith “Philly” Morton.
The movie’s ending leaves the door vast open up for a probable 2nd installment of this iteration of “Nash Bridges.” That will rely on viewership, and the two-hour movie is briskly paced and attention-grabbing more than enough to attract admirers back again for a next go-round ought to that be the scenario.
