Wow what a piece of crap this movie is. And by a twist of fate this somehow became fondly remembered as a "fun popcorn movie" and for what? What makes this movie so fun? Let's see here you have a movie about a cross country race and yet there is no suspense in seeing anyone racing the other. You have the world's most annoying sidekick played by Dom DeLuise who calls himself Captain Chaos, you have a slew of stars who were now on the has-been list. (Poor Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.) And much much worse is that the race in question is so unbelievably stupid in how its set up. This movie is truly as awful as the worst movies in the world get. Indeed this rancid fiasco is on the list of worst movies ever made. (On a list with Kids, King Solomon's Mines and Forrest Gump) and to this day i'll never understand what made people actually like this crapfest.

And of course at the time of its release you have Burt Reynolds, a sex symbol in a time that must've obviously been hard pressed for such he wasn't much of an actor. Sure Reynolds did do well in roles such as Boogie Nights, Deliverance, Sharky's Machine and made the occasional fun movie (Smokey and The Bandit his only decent good ole boy movie, thogh I also remember Part 2 being tolerable.) most of the time Reynolds was stinking up the multiplexes with dreadful trash like this, Stroker Ace, Rent-A-Cop,Physical Evidence, Cop and a 1/2 and of course the sequel to this awful crap. (Actually all said titles are actually better than this stinkbomb.) This movie I blame the most because it was made with pure ego and all it consists of is a top hollywood actor making a complete ass of himself for 90 minutes. This movie is a real nugget of turd and people who like this (even if they love laughing at bad movies such as I) are settling for 8th rate materal.

I mean kung fu movies have hilarious dubbing and tons of goofy action with goofy sound effects, horror movies have the hilarity of seeing a non-too convincing chick run from a non-too convincing monster equaling laughs. It all goes to prove that one cannot simply make a movie such as this with big names basically doing nothing for 90 minutes, I mean there has to be some ambition and intention to make a coherently bad movie about a big race. I mean the least they could've done is make it into a Death Race 2000 rip off, at least that would've been funny. I mean at least funnier than this.

So my advice with this terrible clinker, is to proceed with caution. Remember i'm a professional and I watch kung fu movies in my free time and still couldn't mine for any bad movie gold in this sewer of crapfest.

As far as i'm concerned this movie is a complete and utter crime against humanity. Fuck this movie, and fuck that annoying jackass Captain Chaos.

P.S: This movie started the Jackie Chan curse, as in Chan has tried for almost thirty years to make a decent American movie, and 27 years after this worthless crap, he still has yet to do such.

Hamlin Grade: 0

Ryan
-Board certified professional safety dancer