(Flash Review)Hanks has made a slew of high quality films and this being his third leading roll has to be one his worst. The director, writer and producer should all be ashamed with this as a result especially with the rather big names in the cast. The brittle plot is about some political mischief within the CIA and trying to get someone fired so one side tries to mislead the other by using a regular person as a pawn. Hanks is spotted because he is wearing...yep, you guessed it...one red shoe and he is unknowingly selected as the pawn. The other side views him as important and tracks him to discover what he knows. Que clumsy and stupid plot gags about Hanks tricking them all by accident as he goes about his regular routines. Will Hanks learn what he's in the middle of? With both CIA groups get what they want and outsmart each other? In addition to the strained comedy is a preposterous romantic sub-plot. Unless you are working through Hanks entire film catalog there is absolutely no need to watch this! And mercifully, Hanks has fewer underpants scenes than he had in Turner and Hooch. ZING.

A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA surveillance and pursuit.As Tom Hanks himself acknowledges, the movie is not that good. The plot is okay, but a bit convoluted. The comedy is more often of the absurd kind, and I am not sure it always succeeds. Jim Belushi is rather the strong point of the comedy parts. Also, as 1980s movies end to do, a romance is thrown in for some reason... it seems somewhat forced.What makes this movie worth watching, despite the "blah" of the overall plot and comedy, is the ensemble cast. Tom Hanks may be the star, but he probably doesn't have 50% of the screen time, because he is sharing it with Dabney Coleman, Jim Belushi, Carrie Fisher (in a small role), Charles Durning, Ed Hermann, Lori Singer, Gerrit Graham and more I'm not recalling at the moment. It is a truly impressive cast.

If you're looking for a comedy that's going to have you rolling on the floor with laughter? Well, "The Man With One Red Shoe" isn't it. It's a mediocre film. It builds up a little bit of steam as it moves along, and it has a few humorous scenes, but there was little in it that struck me as truly "funny." It's notable as a very early example of Tom Hanks movie career. To this point he had starred in "Splash" (which I enjoyed) and in "Bachelor Party" (which I haven't seen.) Hanks is fine in this. He plays his part fairly straight - which is the only way this would have worked.The basic story is about mistaken identity. There are two factions vying for control of the CIA. One, led by Ross (Charles Durning) deliberately turns Drew (Hanks) into an object of suspicion to be pursued by the other faction led by Cooper (Dabney Coleman). Drew has no connection with either side or with the CIA. He's a violinist and not a spy, but so desperate is the Cooper faction to believe that he's a spy, that everything they find in his every day life is filtered through that lens, making him more and more suspicious to him. I suppose there's a bit of a warning there. If someone wants to be suspicious of you, no matter how innocent you are, they'll find reasons.Drew ends up in a variety of mildly amusing situations as this unfolds, and pretty good use is made of the actors with whom he interacts most regularly - Maddy (Lori Singer), who works for Cooper and is trying to trap him, but ends up falling for him; Morris (James Belushi), his best friend who sees so many strange things happening around Drew that he starts to think he's going crazy; and Paula (Carrie Fisher), Morris' wife who desperately wants to have an affair with Drew. It's the scenes with Fisher and Belushi that are responsible for most of the humour, and some of the scenes with Singer are amusing, and Singer is quite beautiful, especially in the "backless" (and somewhat more) dress scene.Overall, though, this is a mediocre film of no great note, except that it is early Hanks in the days before he was a huge star. (4/10)

This is a Hilarius movie. Tom Hanks is so Hysterical you will laugh when he does all his magic. James Belushi was very funny. This movie is about a investigation about a man with one red shoe named Richard Harlan Drew. He rides on a bicycle, plays the violin, and his magic came to life. But then Something was happened to Richard's house. People where about to break in and investigate there house. Just then when Richard returns back to the office he went in the house and then he did not know that there was a poison dart But he was still alive a long hour when they left. Then when he got up he saw that the bathroom was mixed up with different parts. But then Paula went inside Richard's house and then did the Tarzan. In one part Richard Harlan Drew had a girlfriend named Maddy. This movie is so Hilarius you will laugh at Tom Hanks.