Runaway Car

This film was great.

The plot was preposterous.

The action sequences contrived.

But, provided you can lighten up enough to laugh, it was a throughly thrilling romp combining Keystone Cops and the Lone Ranger.

The baddies were more silly than bad. The good guys weren't too good. The black actors played normal characters rather than black stereotypes.

The inclusion of a baby added a good touch. Sympathy might have been a little difficult otherwise.

I have to disagree about the acting. It was, on the whole, very good. I really wanted to punch Judge Reinhold.

And, after all, isn't that the mark of a really good movie, wanting to punch Judge Reinhold?

Yes it's a badly-made movie. The acting and script are poor, and it has got the worst continuity error I've ever witnessed - watch the car hood. The black character is from some lousy Starsky episode. I first saw the movie on tv late-night. I wanted to get to bed but ended up watching it all the way through. When I saw it again I taped it and showed it to my 8-year old daughter. She came out of the room shaking and crying as a result of the baby-jeopardy-helicopter moment. (The only movie moment I can ever remember producing this effect in her). The damn thing's enjoyable. I find this with other "bad" movies. Somehow, the effect of knowing it's cheap and has no big stars can lead to a more relaxed honest enjoyment. As someone else said, watch it with a few cans.

This movie started off slow and ended lame. Sure it was fun but only for a little while I would say.

I was not overly impressed with this film in that it just piled on the cliches from the mechanic who fobbed off the woman at the start to the dialog which seemed to vary from being sincere, and earnest to a pale mockery of itself.

The only character that got any sympathy from me was the poor baby who they got out of the car with the helicopter, and why in the hell didn't they pull the child up into the helicopter?

5/10 for trying..

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.

Thanks for reading.

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

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!