CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

grantss Three truckers are setting off across country when they are harassed by a local Sheriff. The Sheriff is happy to use his power to extort money from anyone who he runs into, and he has a particular dislike for truckers. He and one of the truckers, "Rubber Duck", have a long-standing feud. This boils over when the truckers refuse to give in to one of his extortion attempts and get into a fight with the Sheriff and the local police. This results in a cross-state, even inter- state chase, and grows in magnitude as more and more trucks join the rebels, forming a convoy.Pretty weak movie. Generally just one long car/truck chase scene, with little escapades along the way. Had some potential to make a statement about freedom and taking a stand against fascism (maybe a Vanishing Point with trucks) but hardly touches either subject. Instead it's one of those mindless elongated cross country car chase movies. Most perplexing of all, this is directed by Sam Peckinpah, the man who gave us The Wild Bunch, Cross of Iron, Straw Dogs and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. His movies usually have solid plots, good themes and are quite gritty and violent. This has none of those traits. Why he chose to direct this, I don't know. He must have needed the money.

marcusbrainard Ernest Borgnine can take punishment as well as dishing it out. He survived the make of Willard when the rats got him. As Dirty Lyle Wallace the shakedown Sheriff he doesn't like strange dudes who drive a 1957 Plymouth Fury & accidentally pees on Dirty Lyle because he was nervous about Dirty Lyle & then it started in the men's room. Then other things happen to Dirty Lyle. He gets beaten up by 4 black girls and they tell him if any black church is bombed in Arizona, they will come for him or his relatives or pets, if they find what there looking for it's dead and they spit on him. Then he faces a black boy on a bicycle and throws a grenade inside his car. Lyle escapes & gets another issue car & his guys are going after The Independent Truckers and encounter something from a bad LSD Trip. 5 witches on broomsticks and 9 WWII Japanese Planes and pilots following orders from The Wicked Witch of the West & they take out Lyle's enforcers & spare Lyle. Then last but not least a 1952 Henney-Packard Limousine hearse & the truck from Duel & Lyle sees the black girl/driver of the hearse and she wears an attire that looks like "Charles Starkweather meets Esther Williams". In short a motorcycle jacket a black one & a white swimsuit. And Dirty Lyle is scared when the hearse driver opens the side door of the cargo area & there is a dead man with a sheet on him & looks like Dirty Lyle & the truck from Duel is her reinforcement. It's okay for Sheriff Lyle Wallace to shake down independent truckers, but not okay to meet "Titan" and his buddies. Leave the man named Titan alone & his 1957 Plymouth Fury and his allies. This material could have been used in Convoy to put some punch in it. That's it man!

Wilder Movie Reviews A trio of truck drivers get stopped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine). After they stop for food the Sheriff turns up and a fight ensues, the truckers make a run for it and head for Mexico pursued by the police and with more and more truckers joining them along the way, the convoy attracts national attention. The film stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, Brian Davies, Seymour Cassel & Bill Coontz. But Ernest Borgnine truly steals the film in every scene he is in. playing a sheriff in a similar way that Jackie Gleason stole the show in the Smokey and the Bandit films as Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Two classic law enforcement officers who take their jobs a little too far. The film was based on the lyrics to Convoy by C.W. McCall, however after the film was made he changed some of the lyrics to directly reference the film. Fortunately the song is catchy as it plays over most of the film. Surprisingly, the film is very good. Especially when you consider that the plot is just a lot of trucks driving along a road! There is great action, great one liners and one of the best bar fights to hit the screen. It does turn in to a bit of a propaganda film with the truckers using the convoy to vent their frustrations about their working conditions, but over all this it a solid and entertaining film. It does look a little dated now, but this doesn't detract from the entertainment value. This is a fun film and definitely worth your time to watch it.

thekyles99 Kris Kristofferson is classed in my personal faves as dudes too cool to be on this planet! Everr role this guy has played in that i have had the pleasure to watch was done with such a cool tour de force as much like his music the man is craftsman one way or another! Many people during this movie's actual run in the theatre critically bashed it saying b movie status and this and that and most especially blasted Kristofferson's performance as only being able to show one emotion...hey if i was allowed one emotion and that emotion was cool, what can i say i'd run with it. He has led a comfortable life minus the drugs and booze and hardships affiliated with his musical career, what i mean is financially wise, so whose to complain?This movie along with Smokey And The Bandit, is 1 of the best trucker films around! I know CB's have since been replaced with cell phones and pagers however why not bring em back? I loved the 70's song that this film was based on by CW Mccall as well and always , when the mood strikes me and i put this flick on,it always ends up with me watching either karaoke or home made video versions of the song on you tube. Nostalgic is the feeling i am looking for. Cb handle The Duck is Kris Kristofferson's character in this's handle. He is notorious on the CB, nowadays it would be the web, for having various altercations in one form or another with the law, When one of his merry band of truckers gets in a fight with some of the local law enforcers including sheriff Dirty Lyle who has been gunning for The Duck since his name was incarnated, this leads with a pack of truckers racing to get over state line, where they feel Lyle wont be able to touch them, along the way however through the CB chat world a convoy of trucks begins to follow Duck and his merry men! If you are either a fan of Kristtoferson's music, his movies or eve trucking in general i'd definitely say give this a chance and don't listen to the critics!