Cooler King Cool Beyond Belief

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2006)

A great story about teammanship and courage, this is a movie about a prison escape that does not use the kind of violence it might when the real story seems to be a common plan for flawed but brave men to achieve one goal. The characters are defined in such an intriguing way....McQueen for his cool, slow planning, James Garner for his clever skills at finding ANY supply, Charles Bronson for his fear of the closed in tunnel when the time came for escape, and each quality of each man who was part of the planning and execution of the escape plan. McQueen is exciting to watch here, because of everything he is NOT doing. When he IS moving, the stunts on the motorcycles are infectiously fun to watch for those who admire sheer physical agility and absolute passion for speed. It is the underdog we root for, the great cunning plan to escape that we want so much to work. And even when it does not go quite as planned, there is still the Cooler King, dreaming up another plan.