Runaway Car

Allegedly based on a true story, Siemaszko is a nurse having second thoughts about her career when she finds herself heading down the freeway with Judge Reinhold (in his most embarrassing screen appearance) and another dude, when her Rambler Hornet decides to drive itself!

Allegedly travelling at 100 MPH (which is more than 170 kph) we are treated to numerous external scenes where it is obvious the car is going no more than 30 or 40 mph. A baby in the besieged compact is winched to safety...something they could have done one hour earlier! The suspense is laughable, the effects worse, and the ending - missing! Why did no-one think to rip out the back seat, crawl into the trunk and puncture the gas tank or pour some water/soft drink into it??

Ultimately, the car crosses a bridge, falls off a road at about 30 mph and the credits roll! No explanation tendered for anything! About the same level as PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE except THAT was a classic movie!

This movie got nothing going for it. When I say nothing I mean NOTHING. How can people think up such crap and pass it off as a movie. There is not an ounce of realism in the plot and to top it off the acting is below par in fact way below par. It still baffles me why did the police just use a "stinger" to stop the car like they do on countless times to stop bad guys (in real life). If only the makers did include that into this movie, we would have been saved from facing such trash. I would give this flick a 1/100 rating.

I was bored one night and sat down to watch T.V. and came upon this and I was surprised it was such a good movie. Hey it wasn't the greatest movie but I would watch this a million times over before I watched Dharma and Greg. The movie didn't seem to realistic but hey it was Based On A True Story so no one dreamed this up they just saw it in the newspaper. Great movie if your bored. 5 stars out of 10

It's a blatant Speed's rip off, low profile similitude, having aforetime a promising star Judge Reinhold as leading character only, this pseudo thriller mixing a comic orientation should be funny, in an utterly farfetched plot over the running car, a round-up of several farcical scenes where they trying deliver a baby into another car in high speed, helicopter lifting the weeping baby, blasting barrier at road, worst drawbridge wrecking in go down process and so for, letting the audience into laughs or despair or even both.

Therefore if us forget those oddities and the natural logic in is fair entertainment indeed, it's fully addressed for less demanding viewers as TV movie offering, the supporting cast is acceptable and deliver what the director Jack Shoulder expected, in other hand intriguingly no one at highway patrol never imagined or figure out a remote possibility to put on the road the those famous splint studded of nails used to stop occasional blockage runners, anyway it just for killing time if that.

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First watch: 1999 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 5.5.

What a movie. From the stereotyped characters to the baby the helicopter and the bridge, this movie is cliche ridden in the extreme. Yet it is compelling because of that. And it has Judge Rienhold in it. This is a must see with a few cans, a few mates, and money riding on what is going to happen next. The only thing I want to know is who did the M.O.T on that car