Weekend of Terror

One reviewer describes this as 'a pretty lame movie' and I am in total agreement. The film often makes little sense and you could certainly do better.

When the film begins, one of two kidnappers accidentally kills the lady they kidnapped. So they come up with a plan that makes absolutely no sense--to kidnap some poor lady and somehow convince the rich guy that the substitute is his daughter. Instead, the idiot kidnaps three nuns and what they do after that makes even less sense. But one of the kidnappers (Lee Majors) balks at his partner (Robert Conrad) when he plans on murdering two of the three nuns. Why only 2 of the 3? I have no idea.

There is nothing about this film that is good or excellent. It often makes little sense and the nuns occasionally behave like morons (especially when they are hiding and one betrays their hiding place by crying out!). Overall, a sloppy, silly movie that rarely does more than pass time.

What an excitement for me to have here the two heroes - at least Robert Conrad as Jim West, for WILD WILD WEST - from my childhood TOGETHER and in villains roles. When I watched SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, I was actually not a child anymore but a young teen, but it's not important...I would have liked so much so see Majors in a COLUMBO episode, playing a wealthy crime mastermind.... In this very good suspense yarn, I am totally satisfied with with my younger years TV heroes playing bad guys. Jud Taylor was a prolific TV stuff provider and this one here proves his efficiency in terms of directing skills. However, I admit it could have been a bit better on some points...For instance the ending.

This starts with a man chasing a woman and it's filmed in slow motion . Amazingly one of the names featured in the credits is Lee Majors who isn't actually either of the characters running in slow motion . This sets up the story that is equally slow motion . This is a pity because there's all sorts of potential in this TVM but of course being a TVM there's rules involved , as in no sex , violence , bad language , blasphemy or anything else that will alienate a family audience

It's a very bland tale where two criminals have an intricate if not implausible plan and they need a hostage and they've just lost their original hostage which means they need a plan B and low and behold a miracle happens because three nuns just happen to suffer a car breakdown on a remote desert highway . Obviously the Gods were on the side of the baddies at this point

Did I mention how bland this TVM was ? As I said it goes out of its way to offend absolutely no one . The victims are nuns but there is absolutely no reason why they should be nuns they could be some really hot cheerleaders and it would have not made the slightest piece of difference to the telling of the story except to perhaps manipulate the audience in to feeling sorry for them . There's no need because they're women held at gunpoint and that should be enough

The film is about a couple of kidnappers who's captive died and the 2 men decided to get another woman to pretend to be the woman that died so they can get the ransom money. They didn't bargain for 3 nuns but that is what they got. The nuns end up with a case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Pretty good crime-thriller, suspenseful enough to keep me interested. Well acted out. There a small handful of flaws but overall it's not a bad TV film of the 1970s.

The film is about 1 hour 15 minutes but feels like a longer film. Not so much because it's boring but just feels like a 2 hour movie.

Worth watching on a boring afternoon.

8/10.

I taped this movie years ago & I thought that it was a pretty lame movie. But there were some really funny parts in it that were not meant to be funny. Lee Majors was cast as "Larry" a few years before his really big role as "Steve Austin" in "The Six Million Dollar Man". And Robert Conrad plays "Eddie" the main bad guy out of the two. The part that is really funny is the line that "Larry" says to "Eddie".

I quote: "Eddie! What are trying to do! Are you on something that I don't know about? Acid! Speed! Something?"

The line is a classic! If you ever get a chance to see this movie, keep it on until you get to hear "Larry" say that line. It's priceless! If I ever have the chance of meeting Lee Majors someday, I would ask him if he was on something that we didn't know about, after making this partly funny clunker...