Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Ian (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.

Uriah43 In a desperate attempt to keep his job as the director of the CIA "Ross" (Charles Durning) directs his assistant "Brown" (Edward Herrmann) to select a person at random and falsely suggest to his main rival "Cooper" (Dabney Coleman) that this innocent bystander has secret information that might thwart Cooper's political ambitions. To that end, Brown selects an eccentric musician named "Richard" (Tom Hanks) because he is wearing one red shoe due to a practical joke played on him by his best friend "Morris" (James Belushi). As expected, Cooper takes the bait and immediately puts all of his resources into finding out what Richard knows. However, what Cooper doesn't realize is the difficulty his agents encounter when they submerge themselves into Richard's bizarre life. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie started off a bit slow but got pretty funny towards the end with Morris deservedly having to endure his share of comedic mishaps. Admittedly, this wasn't a great comedy by any means but I still found it entertaining enough and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

SnoopyStyle There is a rivalry between Burton Cooper (Dabney Coleman) and his boss CIA director Ross (Charles Durning). Maddy (Lori Singer) is one of Cooper's agents. Cooper is able to doublecross Ross by getting a CIA agent arrested for cocaine smuggling in Morocco. The Senate calls on Ross to testify and he has 48 hours. Ross intends to misdirect Cooper by sending him on a wild goose chase. Ross' second Brown (Edward Herrmann) picks random guy at the airport, Richard Drew (Tom Hanks), the man with one red shoe. Richard is a violinist having an affair with his best friend Morris (Jim Belushi)'s wife Paula (Carrie Fisher). Cooper swallows the bait whole as his team struggles to discover what evidence Richard has against him.Tom Hanks is playing an everyman. If this movie works at all, it is due to his charms. At times, it tries to be a screwball comedy but it never gets to be outright funny. It's nice ... like Hanks. He's never unleashed and neither is the movie.

Lee Eisenberg In this remake of the French comedy "The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe", Tom Hanks plays a violinist who randomly gets selected as a spy, leading the government to turn his life upside down. There are certainly some really funny scenes here - namely anything involving plumbing - but it's really undesirable when Hollywood remakes a foreign movie. "The Man with One Red Shoe" is pretty characteristic of Tom Hanks's career before he got into serious roles: innocuously silly.So, I recommend the original, but this one isn't bad. Just don't expect any kind of religious experience. Also starring Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann, Carrie Fisher, James Belushi and David Ogden Stiers.