Decent concept devolves into Roadrunner cartoon

Rating: 1/10 (21 October 2002)

Stupid, stupid, stupid waste of celluloid.
This film transports you alright. It transports you from the first third of what could have been a halfway decent movie into the middle of the stupidest, most pathetic excuse for storytelling I have paid money to see in recent memory.
*** A warning to all who may be forced to see this film, the following paragraph contains a spoiler or two. Though spoiling any part of this picture would be redundant ***
How bad is this movie? Allow me to demonstrate. In a scene reminiscent of the spoof of action movie scenes the latest 'Austin Powers' began with, we find our hero chasing the bad guys' truck in his car. The bad guys manage to disable his car. So what does he do? He notices a plane in the sky. So, of course, he begins chasing the plane -- ON FOOT! Sprinting over hills and across valleys, our determined protagonist is lucky enough to find that the plane has landed and that its pilot is hanging around doing nothing much in particular. The hero forces the pilot at gunpoint into an aerial pursuit of the baddies. In the next scene we see the plane swooping across the highway just above the evildoers. In the very next sequence, the plane is 30,000 feet in the air and the good guy is leaping out with a parachute. This guy isn't just a transporter, he's Superman! He lands on the truck of course, and the rest of the so-called plot any idiot could predict from watching re-runs of the 'Six Million Dollar Man.'
*** End spoilers ***
This film is a shining example of what happens when a bunch of greedy jerks with a lot of cash get together after being handed a good concept for a movie which has no real story. Then the jerks market it based on the concept and laugh, laugh, laugh when suckers like me and you take our seats for what we expect to be a cogent plot line that doesn't strain the boundaries of believability too greatly.
Don't even wait for the tape. If you want an experience similar to watching this film, plop yourself down in front of the TV Saturday morning and tune in to see what Wile E. Coyote's up to.
This movie sucked!
This movie review by Erik Gloor