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MOST UNDERRATED PRE- FAST AND FURIOUS MOVIE


I recently seen this movie on cable a week ago. I have to say this is an excellent movie. Charlie Sheen is great. I love Charlie's I don't care attitude he displays in the film. There's a scene when he shoots a guy in the nite club and calmly walks out the club as if nothing happened. Excellent acting. DB Sweeney is likeable as the undercover cop and Randy Quaid. Who I'm not really a fan of but starting to like is excellent Lieutenant Vincent Bracey. His dialogue is so expressive and his delivery that you will crack up when you hear DB and him go at it in arguments.

Overrall this film is way better than the Fast and Furious movies because of the original story line and the bond between the characters. I like how Sweeney and Sheen are almost like brothers. I like the triangle between Sheen, Sweeney and Laura Harris. Production value is excellent, the camera work, and editing on the car chases are excellent. excellent 80's movie worth keeping in the video vault for a late night viewing.

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I agree...
Liked this old movie alot...
Saw it about 10years ago..

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I watched this one waaay back in 1989 and I vaguely remember the plot.

However, when I watched the Fast and the Furious, this one popped into my mind about 10 minutes into the movie, when we discover Brian's an undercover cop. In fact, I even thought Fast & Furious ripped this one off!

Oh, and this one is actually realistic... and it's got Porsches running around. :)

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I remember seeing it on cable back in the late 80's on TMC and I fell in love with it.

No Man's Land is easily one of the most underrated car movies of all time.

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I really don´t see anything original in "The fast and the Furious"... Almost every idea comes from "No Man´s Land", i think they just changed the cars.

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fast and furious was a huge rip off of this great movie.

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^^ you forgot to say it's a rip off but with B actors... Sheen & Sweeney are real actors... Diesel & Walker are just Hollywood products, they can't act!!

even in B Movies, Sheen can do better than this 2 reunites!!

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Great to see other fans of this forgotten flick. Someone mentioned watching it back in the day, late 80s. It had that slick, cool look about it, my buds and I watched a zillion times. Hot cars, hot girl, hot house. The final scene is awesome, aided by a great soundtrack. "Don't!" *beep* you!" bang bang bang bang!!!

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I totally agree, this is way better than Fast and Furious.

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I saw this when it first came out on video, and it was a cool background movie (an "Also Ran").

I was big into porsche's and it was fun to watch. Saw it again on satalite a couple months ago and it was still a good watch.

Way better than F&F because it wasn't trying to be a big production and had real actors. I also fell in love with Lara Harris and wish she would have had a much bigger career in film.

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I saw this movie when it first came out on video in 1988 and instantly loved it!
Too bad barely anyone seems to know or remember it very well.

This is a much better film than "The Fast & The Furious" which was a hyper-active, cheesy glorification. This film took its time to develop real characters and was able to show how the DB Sweeney character could be seduced by the lifestyle and pay the consequences for being drawn in.

A really under-rated movie!

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"This is a much better film than "The Fast & The Furious" which was a hyper-active, cheesy glorification. This film took its time to develop real characters and was able to show how the DB Sweeney character could be seduced by the lifestyle and pay the consequences for being drawn in. "

Yes.

This movie PROPERLY and CORRECTLY shows what 'seduction' should be like (though it could be even more powerful).

If the Star Wars prequels had done HALF the credible 'seduction' stuff THIS movie does, no one would be complaining how ridiculous it was the way 'Anakin' was 'seduced' to the dark side.

Heck, the emperor never even offered Anakin any women or booze. No mansions or speeder-Porsches or parties. Nothing. Just vague speeches of 'power', if I remember correctly (and I have only seen each 'prequel' movie once, because I am certainly not planning to go through that crap again, so I might mis-remember).

This movie shows how someone COULD be seduced to the 'dark side' .. a good Miami Vice episode does it also, but in a different way, it only shows the results (the episode with Ed O'Neill being the undercover cop).

Star Wars is horrible in how it does this. They could at least show him going a little power mad, being able to telekinetically manipulate things, lift objects, and stuff, and not being able to always resist the temptation to do 'unspeakable stuff', like squeeze women's butts telekinetically (a MAD comic once did this about Darth Vader, it was funny, but it's also realistic).

I mean, come on - you are a teenager, you have your hormones raging, and you can 'touch' and 'manipulate' things and humans telekinetically - wouldn't you at least ONCE test it? They could also have shown how he could hypnotize the women with the 'Jedi trick' (women's minds are usually not very strong, that's why advertising is aimed at them - they often succumb to a strong message or a strong leader, whereas men have resistance), and liking this new power.

They should have SHOWN all kinds of ways to utilize the 'POWER', and how much fun it can be to have power, how corruptive element it can be to a young Jedi apprentice, and so on. They could have shown all the decadence in great detail.

A bit like this movie does - drugs, booze, cigarettes, whores, sluts, parties, fast cars, crime sprees, and even murders.

Star Wars shows us .. "Hey, wanna come to the dark side? There's some "power". - Oh? Sure, ok."

Wow. What a contrast.

Even the good Star Wars-movies only resort to: "If you only KNEW the power of the dark side!". Well, why not SHOW it to us, then? Then we will know! Show us the power, and stop talking about it.. why didn't Darth Vader just bring Luke to his excursions into the 'lifestyles of rich, powerful and aimless', show him some parties and some asian beauties (or whatever is the equivalent in other planets) and things of such nature. But now.. it's just..

"If you only KNEW".. how can I know, if you don't show me? WTF?

This movie did it right.

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I agree, I saw this movie for the first time the other night. It reminded me of the fast and the furious. D.B. Sweeney was like Paul Walker's character and Charlie Sheen's role was sort of like Vin Diesel's in the Fast and Furious.

Sheen did a great job in this movie. I am gonna have to watch more of his work.

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I totally agree with you. This movie is extremely underrated. It never got the recognition it deserved. I was not very impressed w/ "The Fast and The Furious" and it's sequell wa little more than a rap video.

The chemistry between D.B. Sweeny and Charlie Sheen is genuine to the core! The performances are solid and the cars and chases are simply awesome!

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Yes this film is amazing. i first saw it about 7 years ago and loved every second of it. Fast and Furious is a f ucking insult to this movie the first time Benjy drives Ted's Porsche is breathtaking. Charlie Sheen and Daniel Sweeney kick-ass together. I spent along time trying to find this movie to buy it. eventually i bought it on VHS and still have it & it's just been released last month on DVD in England WOO HOO! Films aren't like they used to be 80's flicks rule.

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This is a great movie, I remember first seeing this as a rental years ago.

This is better than the Fast & Furious which I was dissapointed in because I saw so much of No Man's Land in it, & yes No Man's Land is currently underrated at 5.4 -imo- it ought to be at least 7.

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I first saw No Mans Land in 1991, aged 12. I remember it was on BBC1 and the next day I was chatting to the boys at school about it. We all thought it was pretty good.

Anyway I was just search for films starring Bill Duke and there's No Man's Land... all of a sudden it occured to me the plot is like Fast and the Furious.

So I scroll down to start a topic and discover someone's already thought the same thing!

Anyway is this film available on DVD?

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i saw this when it first came out on vhs, like the summer of '88, and the first real serious drivng sequence was forever etched into my brain, the one where benjy fixes varrick's car then test drives it. the scene where he hits the brakes while pulling back into his lane to avoid oncoming traffic is definitely completely nasty technique. driving skills of that caliber are rare outside of the racing world.

i was fixing bmw's when this movie came out, and one day, while driving to work in my '73 chartreuse bmw 2002, a porsche 928 passed me. i realized that my car would never be a /porsh-a^/. then i realized comparing the two is like comparing power boats and citrus fruits.

this brings me to my point, that comparing NML to FnF, is doing the same thing. You might as well compare it to "2001: a space odyssey".

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I am glad you like this movie. I was in it! I was an extra and we filmed that night club scene in San Pedro/Long Beach area. I had a great time since I was bumped up to be apart of the band since their horn players were late showing up. I was wearing a black suit and the director liked my look. Unfortunately, before the scence took place, the guys arrived! However, the Director let me stay with the principle cast for the day! So I got to hang with Charile and D.B. I must say they were the best. Charile was so cool and nice.
Then three weeks later I got a call back for my car! I had a nice classic 1971 280 SE MBZ. I was in the garage and Charlie came over and said hello! He actually remembered me! So I really enjoyed working and watch this film!

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I finally saw the movie yesterday, was able to find a DVD copy. This movie is awesome!! Very solid acting, good plot. If you feel bored by 2 fast 2 furious and ripoffs like that, you will like this movie a lot!! The car scenes are that damn good!!! :)

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I saw this movie about two years ago, on HBO. I totally got hooked on into the movie. It was very creative. Its performances hands down are extremely underrated. All three of them , sheen, sweeney, and evem quaid, who i thought was difficult to imagine him playing a serious role.

This movie gets Two thumbs up from me without a doubt

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real people populate the plot too.




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I agree dude. I love this movie! I grew up watching it, it was taped from tv when i was like 10 way back in 1988, i couldnt believe its poor rating of 5.3, it deserves more, it was the first movie of its kind that dealt with grand theft auto..I actually came here as its on tv again as i type this...I had almost forgotten about it! Its great to re watch it im picking up so many things that i missed or didnt understand as a youngster re-watching it....Oops gotta go, there about to steal a porche right under the valet's noses :p

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I was flipping through late night films on Saturday night and discovered someone stealing a Porsche and it had Charlie Sheen. I haven't heard of this film before and I thought I knew all of Sheen's films. So I watched it and it was great.

The scene where he finds the bent cop at the train yard reminded me of To Live and Die in L.A. which I am a big fan of.

* SPOLIER! *

I think this is the only film that we see Charlie Sheen die in! I'm not sure if he died in Red Dawn or not but it was a strange sight!

* END SPOLIER! *

Some actors who have appeared in silly but hilarious comedies you can't take seriously again but he was in Hot Shots and yet I took him seriously in this film.

Well worth checking out.

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"I think this is the only film that we see Charlie Sheen die in! I'm not sure if he died in Red Dawn or not but it was a strange sight!"

Charlie Sheen dies in Red Dawn, No Man's Land, Young Guns, Bad Day on the Block, Rated X and I'm sure that in all the films were he dies he always gets shot in the chest area!

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Oh right, I never saw Young Guns or the other films. I didn't know he was in it. Someone edited my post and inserted mis-spelt "SPOILER"'s.

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"I never saw Young Guns or the other films"

Do yourself a favour and watch them especially Red Dawn and Young Guns! their amazing! ;-)

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I have seen Red Dawn - that's a great film. The DVD sits on my shelf. I am also a fan of Men At Work, hehe.

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Got the DVD for Christmas why have i waited till now to watch it?!!! I love this film it's fluckin awesome. Now i can keep my VHS as 80s memorabilia lol.

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GREAT MOVIE!

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it is a supercool movie, it has all the flashyness and class that most john woo and bruckheimer films were going for in the early 2000's

as for charlie sheen dying in films he dies in the wraith but then comes back
so theres a semi death movie right there

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