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Here was my comment, that didn't make it...

posted 17 years ago by japanesefightingfish311
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"Where to start, hmmm. Michael Madson, there's a good place to start. Yes, it has Mike in the lead role. Should I go on? Yes, because people need the heads-up when it comes to this kind of z-grade "cinema." The plot is something most semi-conscious to mentally handicapped teenage burn-outs envision in their sleep. The missing piece of your plot to kidnap the President of the United States is *wait for it* a RACE CAR DRIVER. Damn, I smell a masterpiece. Keith David is the over-acted, evil mastermind. Great. Okay, it DOES have that one redhead hottie from yesteryear, whatsherface.
Anyway I started watching from the point when this balding, middle-aged biker cop started to, unaware, semi-erotically climb a semi-truck, gripping the pole for support, and sort of grinding it while interrogating the driver. Talk about hot. Then the semi-trucks start killing things. There's this motorcade coming at them, although in one shot, you can tell they've obviously stopped the cars, and there's no one in them. Then the same footage is replayed as 2 goons fire a machine gun at a heli, which eventually explodes. Imagine that. The Pres is retrieved by good ol' Mike, and he "drives" him to a rendevous point. Footage is replayed, things explode, etc.
All the while this singular "God Camera" captures all the necessary action and relays it back to bad guy HQ. I mean this thing captures all. And it's clay-colored to blend in on whatever the hell wall it's been nailed to.
So he takes the Pres to some old pedofile, alcoholic mechanic who deicdes to join in on the fun. A strike team shows up, the bad guy is revealed to be at "Area 55." So original are they that they hatch a plan. Madsen throws a garbage bag over the old dude's head and drives him to a service tunnel, telling him to fire his gun in any direction upon hearing the words "cherry coke." I know, this is where it becomes *beep* genius. "God Camera" continues rolling.
"Cherry coke" is uttered and all hell breaks loose. A low-rate commando pops out of the trunk and hits some guy, then they keep driving down this tunnel. So they come in to the base, guns blazing. The commando rolls and shoots his gun. Sections of this innate metal walkway start exploding. Apprently, aluminum violently explodes when struck by bullets. Try it sometime, see if your henchmen don't die because of it. So there's a shootout, sometimes the guns are making sound, but no blank fire is coming from them. Guns of the future, I think.
Anyway, they're all walking down this tunnel,they see the bad guy, and the old pedo runs at them and yells "Cherry COKE!!!" and gets gunned down right there. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. So then a few bullets are exchanged, Keith dies, Maddie's shot in the chest, but limps out like he's hit in the knee.
There's an "ambulance", which is actually just a stripped out conversion van, next thing I know the credits roll.
Anyone that tells you this movie is "not half bad." is actually requesting that you knee them in the groin to bring them to their senses."

Okay, and that didn't make it on there, but they post the comment from this retard-

Kidnapping the President for Profit, ha ha, that's hiliarious!, 7 October 1998
Author: Kendall Wright from Grove, Oklahoma

I really like this film, Michael Madsen, one hell of an actor who is so underated, it's sick, because this man has talent! Even though The Getaway (1994) is still his best movie, this is one Madsen flick any fan should see! Kidnapping the President and selling him to another country for billions of dollars is hilarious, and a good never before seen plot! Imagine some one doing that to Bill Clinton, now that would be the day!

Injustice? Hell yes it is. This movie is garbage, Kendall may be suffering from dementia or severe brain damage. Knowledge is power.

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[–] rossboyask 17 years ago

Great little uncredited cameo by Matthias Hues in this film too.

[–] aloep 17 years ago

I'm quite glad this comment didn't make it. It's incredibly poorly written and goes into great detail about only the final quarter of the movie. From what I can make out in your illogical rant you've only seen the final quarter of the film which really gives you no right to judge and criticise a movie which you haven't seen for the most part. The lead character is a stunt car driver, not a race car driver. On my DVD there is no footage replayed at all, and there wasn't on the version I saw on TV either. And not once in your in depth description of certain scenes do you give any worthy criticism. Rather, you magnify the most unmemorable of scenes and add supposedly witty comments like "middle-aged biker cop started to, unaware, semi-erotically climb a semi-truck, gripping the pole for support" which is neither big nor clever. As for cars being stopped without any driver, the only time I noticed this was when the second truck de-roofs the limo and the police escorts which was shot from behind the cars so it's hardly noticeable if there's any driver or not. And you know, the logical decision for most people when a truck blocks the path in front of you would be to stop.

I happen to like this movie. It's all far fetched and over the top, but so are many big studio action films. Look at garbage like Transporter 2 for example. Is this movie a work of art? No. Is it dumb? Yes. Is it entertaining? Certainly. And it's car chases are well shot and the film is certainly "not half bad" as mindless entertainment. It's not a film to be taken seriously. Just a fast paced b-grade action/chase movie which does very well for it's small budget.

And I can understand why that "retard"'s comment was posted and not yours. It was simple praise and did not include spiteful words like "pedo" and unfounded criticism. Also keep in mind that it was written over 8 years ago, and IMDB's policies may have changed since then.

If you think some of the errors you pointed out in this movie were bad, I can only assume you're somewhat ignorant of the entire B-movie industry. Every year there are hundreds of absolute turkeys made to fill up the shelves of rental stores. Go check out any film by Albert Pyun, Jim Wynorski, Fred Olen Ray, Yossi Wein, Art Camacho or just about anything by an American studio filmed in Bulgaria or Romania.

You didn't like what you saw of the the movie? Fine, but please get your facts straight, don't rate something which you haven't seen much of and don't try to condemn people who do enjoy movies of this kind. Knowledge is power indeed, and you seem to be solely lacking in that department. Plus last time I checked "pedofile" is not a word in the English language.

[–] zimbo_the_donkey_boy 16 years ago

Each of you has put more thought into your spiel than IMDB cares for. Please each of you redirect your efforts into writing film scripts so that I'll have some videos to enjoy watchin'. And please try to get Angie Everhart and Madsen cast into them.