Meet me half way... and give me a refund

Rating: 3/10 (24 September 2003)

Since I can't get the two hours I invested in this flick back, maybe I can get my money? Don't get me wrong... I like Sylvester Stallone. But how many crappy movies can one person make? When he allied himself with Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus of Cannon Films (two of the worst producers of all time) for this movie and "Cobra", he should've known it was the beginning of the end. Everything they touched during the 80s turned to shit. The few Academy Award worthy films they produced ("Runaway Train" and "Barfly", among them) were probably made by accident.
Back to the movie itself... it's a very touching story of a kindhearted truck driver (Stallone) trying to reconnect with his bratty son (David Mendenhall) while his ex-wife is dying of a convenient illness. Meanwhile, the tyrant of a grandfather (the always excellent Robert Loggia) tries to put the kibosh on the father-son bonding for no apparent reason other than the fact that his daughter married someone who makes less than six figures a year.
The film culminates in a climactic arm-wrestling showdown, in which you learn that if you turn your ball cap hat around, you get stronger. I never knew that.
The burning question is "Where do they come up with the names of these characters?" Lincoln Hawk? Bull Hurley? Is this supposed to be symbolic?
Thankfully, Stallone had a couple of minor hits a few years later, most notably "Cliffhanger". However, for every "Copland" there are 5 "Rhinestone"s.