Woodyanders
Boy, am I in the minority about this particular film. You see, I thought this movie was a lot of good, silly, rousing fun. Sure, it's a cheesy B-picture, but it does the trick and delivers the stirring goods, which makes it a solid film in my book. Okay, with that obligatory explanation stuff out of the way let's get on with this here review.After they accidentally cut off an ominous giant black pick-up truck on the highway, both dashing limousine driver Jim Travis (firmly played by perennial straight-to-cable TV feature topliner Casper Van Dien) and his fetching female passenger Sonia Walker (the very cute Danielle Brett) end up being relentlessly terrorized on an isolated patch of sticksville mountainside backroads by the pick-up's dangerously unbalanced and irritable wombat driver. Veteran director Sidney J. Furie tackles the admittedly trite "Duel" rehash material with commendable flair and aptitude, keeping the pace sprightly and unwavering throughout, creating a reasonable amount of tension, and staging several truly spectacular bash 'em, crash 'em and smash 'em up car chases and automobile stunts with smack dead on-target exciting results. Moreover, both leads turn in personable performances, the dialogue possesses real snap and wit, there are a few genuinely startling plot twists, the blaring rock score totally smokes, and, most importantly, we've got no pretense whatsoever to be found in a single fleet frame of this amazingly vigorous and galvanizing little beaut.
tedphx
If you were going to parody Duel, how would you go about it? Certainly not with understatement and subtlety. I wouldn't think.This movie started out rather normally - a bad breakup scene, a stranger aiding the damsel in distress, and the now ex-boyfriend seething as she drove off into the sunset with a guy whom we have a slight suspicion might be a maniac in his own right.But then we immediately come to know they are not playing it straight with us when our savior/daredevil ends up barreling down the highway at 70 mph - backwards.From there it's one riotous over-the -top scene after another, and that might have worn thin were it not for the wonderfully intentional overacting and absurd dialogue, the best example of which is Bo's hilarious take-off of Brando in Streetcar.Adding to the fun is the endless parade of innocents a la Mad, Mad World who get steamrolled along the way, as Bo, more and more, comes to resemble a crazed version of John Belushi in Animal House.Yes, I know, what you're thinking, "How can you get more crazed than Belushi in Animal House?" Just watch the fun.
cwaris
This is nothing to do and you're too drunk to turn the channel movie. Its watchable but not a good movie. Any guy willing to jack up his ride for a plain Jane brunette either has serious personal issues or not all his dogs are barking. Its a movie you can watch only once and realized you just wasted an hour and half of your life where you could have been drinking more beer. The thing I hate the movie it the end. I wonder if these people were just hungry for a pay check cause you knew from the first few minutes of this movie it wasn't going any where. I realized there are some movies made to be filmed and others that are just a waste of film.
DiannC
Though the title "Road Rage" seemed promising, I must confess I couldn't keep watching this movie...it was like witnessing an awkward tragedy, I had to turn away.When the chase scene first starts, the dialogue between the guy and girl in the car is ludicrous, and their almost frivolous emotions don't match the situation. If they were truly being followed by someone like that they wouldn't be having that conversation, the driver wouldn't care if she smoked in the car, and he certainly wouldn't go after him once it stopped.The car chase scenes were unbelievable, in real life a 5 car pile-up would have occurred immediately, everyone knows you can't get around other drivers in rush hour, even if your life depended on it, never mind evading accidents on the freeway for long periods of time. Explosions don't happen quite so easily either.The cops probably wouldn't have drawn guns as the car slid into their parking lot, and probably would have tried to be a bit more helpful since the whole thing was a threat to public safety.The "relationship" which develops between them is unbelievable. There is no chemistry, it is not plausible she would invite him back to her house after what happened--since he chose to go after the truck after it stopped chasing them. The cutesy dialogue between them has no weight, just like the rest of the movie. It's proof that making a movie is very complex, just throwing in a few successful elements from other movies doesn't necessarily work.Was this thing written & filmed by high school students?
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