I love a mindless weekend night watching these type of god awful movies but I'm so sick of continually saying the same thing. Namely, why the heck can't people make good movies like this while also have them make sense. Why does everyone act like an idiot and make decisions that no sane person would make?
It just pisses me off. Isn't it possible to make a movie like this but also have smart people?!?!
Lol my sentiments exactly!
shareWell people aren't always logical in highly stressful situations. I think the more annoying about the movie was their car sneaking up on people as if it was quiet and the amount of ammunition that was in the cops car. Did it really have THAT many shotgun shells?
shareAgree fully. Not just smart people but what about never ending ammunition as well? This movie had great potential but it was just took over the top. The icing on the cake was the bad guy walking away from the horrendous car crash. Really?
shareYou mean when you're left in the middle of nowhere and your wife doesn't answer your call, you don't smash your cell phone on the road? Hmmm.....me, neither.
shareBREAKDOWN (1997) is an example of this kind of film done well. This was just horrible, incompetent and derivative.
shareThe phone smashing was just one of several wtf moments.
I was doing the " GRAB THE DEAD COPS GUN!" thing as he jumped into a car unarmed.
Then we have the wife blindly wasting five hundred rounds from a full auto AK47.
I guess she studied the nuances of 'suppressive fire' back in NAM!
I liked the flat black badguy mobile though.
Though not a fan of the pro-stock tiny front wheels.
And if it was a four speed it would have been cooler.
Always good to see ' MR REESE' however.
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"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"
What do you mean, "if it was a four speed"? According to the sound effects when it was driving down the road, it was! Too bad an automatic doesn't really make shifting sounds like that.
shareThe sound may have been a standard four on the floor.
But at one point the driver actually puts the column shifter into drive.
72 Chevelle didn't come with a manual column shifter.
If hes shifting up there, its an automatic.
And I guarantee if they had a four speed stick,
the director woulda put some low camera angle in there
and showed the driver punching through the gears at least once.
I would have!
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"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"
I was being sarcastic; I know that the car in the movie was an automatic on the column. You're wrong, however, about '72 Chevelles not being available with a standard on the column. The base models came with a three speed manual transmission with a column shifter, usually behind a 250 cubic inch six.
shareThought we established this was a four speed based on the sound.
I guess I should have been more specific,
there was no 'four speed manual column shifter' on a 72 Chevelle.
And nobody but your grandma bought the six!
Actually I just found a pic of the speedometer from the movie,
shows the automatic gear selector!
Check out this link,
the site is pretty interesting for gear heads/ movie fans like ourselves.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_464813-Chevrolet-Chevelle-1972.html
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"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"
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The icing on the icing was when he gets shot, goes down, then miraculously recovers and undertakes to attack swinging as if he had never been wounded.
This movie was so stupid that I wondered why the producer (and investors) would spend all this money on it. I can't believe anyone would invest their limited time into making this.
Except for the one eye-rolling scene where a vehicle is curiously able to completely surprise a group of people while traveling at light speed, it’s a well done swamp adventure/thriller marred only by the trendy muted colors and a couple annoying scenes featuring quick-editing. Any criticisms of questionable behavior can be explained by the fact that people aren't always logical in highly stressful situations, such as Nate (Caviezel) smashing his phone on the road (I saw my sister do that on one occasion).
I like the flick because it thrusts a struggling family into a life-or-death situation in the boggy bush reminiscent of Man-Thing comics albeit without the creature. Of course the thugs are certainly monstrous enough. While I would’ve liked to see more human interest, I suppose there’s just enough for this kind of non-stop action thriller. The story arc of the family leaves you with a good feeling after the extreme mayhem.