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Don't Believe the Hype
Usamah Harvey
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
BarneyRubbleNLittleChina
The skeptics called it hokey and cheesy. The nay-sayers said it could never happen. Start stockpiling your oils now, we will run out of oils before the end of Trump's term. This movie is a blueprint, nay ... a PROPHECY of our immediate future. Watch it now before we run out of oils and you'll be too busy surviving and you won't have time to eat popcorns and watch movie. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Also, be warned that the 6 Million Dollar Man and the kid that needed a Bodyguard and that old gruffy man are in this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!p.s. Red Barchetta is a cool song by that Canadian band Rush. COINCIDENCE? i think not ...
Michael Regan
A global pandemic has circulated the planet, killing millions of people. A special government agency has decided that the rapid spread of the disease is thank to the ever-growing mass transit of the world. The solution--eliminate any form of mass transit and deem it to be illegal. Simple? Not if you are a race car driver.Lee Majors is a race car driver in a future where mass transit no longer exists and must now travel around and preach the 'evils' of the automobile. Once he comes across a young anarchist played by Chris Makepeace he begins to realize that things don't have to be this way and literally digs out his Porsche to drive it across the country as a symbol of the ridiculous nature of the existing law.Not too implausible considering all the pandemic threats of today and the ever increasing speed of today's mass transit. Not a high-budget big special effect movie, but highly recommended.
Noam DePlume
This was a staple of 1980s Canadian television, not because it's particularly good (though I like it), but because it was made with Canadian dollars. Thus allowing it to fit in with the country's strange (to non-Canadians anyway) Canadian Content broadcast regulations.Lee Majors takes time out inbetween his Six Million Dollar Man/Fall Guy gigs and races around the countryside near my neck of the woods, while Chris Makepeace blows the head off a statue real good and Burgess Meredith talks to his kite. All this, plus a decent supporting role from Harvey Atkin as the orgy-frequenting conformist co-worker who frowns upon Lee's free-thinking spirit. What's not to like?Adding to the enjoyment is playing the game of "spot the location" and comparing places I've been to to how they're shown in the movie. The sight of dozens of extras bicycling around the Yorkdale shopping centre on their way towards a big clean Utopian bubble city (or a matte painting of it, anyway) always raises a smile.Avoid the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this, it's really not funny, although the last line "aw, no wonder it sucks, it's Canadian!" is a good one.
Kai-18
Not as weird as it sounds but twice as unbelievable. Though this isn't a great movie it's a nice time killer for nostalgists. Lee Majors gets sick of the government who wishes to restrain everyone's need for speed. So he and a teen skip town and go cross country as a team that's like the Dukes of Hazard meets Batman and Robin (not the lame film, just the hero team). Things get nutty when Burgess Meredith is called in to take them down but he decides he won't and just pretend to. It's fun but all in all a cheese flick. Last words of the film: "this could set us back to the 1980's." That's is kinda scary when you think about it but John Hughes films would improve.
