Often dismissed by reviewers as director Ridley Scott's more commercial little brother, Tony Scott was one of mainstream Hollywood's more reliable and stylish action filmmakers since the mid-1980s. Not quite an auteur, the transplanted Englishman built a reputation as a skilled hired gun for high-concept action producers Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson on several of the highest grossing films of the eighties. Though high-tech male bonding became his specialty, one sensed that Scott – with his lushly seductive imagery – had more colors on his palette than he had been allowed to