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Release Date:
1 May 1998 (USA)
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The only way to stay safe is to stay moving. more
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An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled...
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Financial Crisis
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Run for your life - it's Smokey & the Bandit 4!!!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Patrick Swayze | ... | Jack Crews | |
| Meat Loaf | ... | Red | |
| Randy Travis | ... | Earl | |
| Gabriel Casseus | ... | Sonny | |
| Brian Vincent | ... | Wes | |
| Graham Beckel | ... | Cutler | |
| Brenda Strong | ... | Melanie Crews | |
| Rusty De Wees | ... | Junior | |
| Cyril O'Reilly | ... | Vince | |
| Erin Broderick | ... | Tracy Crews | |
| Charles S. Dutton | ... | Agent Alan Ford (as Charles Dutton) | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | ATF Agent McClaren | |
| Lorraine Toussaint | ... | Avery, FBI | |
| Hester Hargett | ... | FBI Tech | |
| Stuart Greer | ... | Weight Station Trooper |
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Black Dog (France)
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Rated PG-13 for intense scenes of action violence, and for language.
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89 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Norway:15 (DVD premiere) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Netherlands:16 (video premiere) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #35974) |
Iceland:16 |
UK:12
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The "FBI" headquarters shown in the film is actually the Georgia-Pacific building in downtown Atlanta GA.
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Errors in geography: The scale scene was filmed at the scale outside Atlanta, Ga on I-20 east on the west side of Atlanta and the sign on the building says "North Carolina Dept Of Transportation".
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Referenced in Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin (2004) (V)
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The Hole
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Ex-con Jack Crews is offered an one-time job to drive a truck dross-country and deliver it's load of stolen guns on time. Despite having lost his licence he takes the job for the money. However once he starts his trip with an escort he finds that the original holder of the guns is trying to not only get paid for the weapons but also steal the load back. Crews finds himself trying to avoid police and criminals alike to get the job done.
Who said they don't make Smokey and the Bandit movies anymore?! This mixes both elements of those movies with modern thriller strands. The plot is therefore pretty mixed. It starts out ignoring the fact that Crews is carrying illegal weapons and ignores the moral issues this may throw up regarding the film painting him as a good man, it then focuses on big truck action with plenty of cars, trucks, jeeps blowing up and skidding all round the place. The second half keeps some of this action but it realises that it needs to end with Crews being a good guy and suddenly the guns issue is brought up and it looks for a "happy" thriller style end. The plot is quite unlikely - Why did Red suddenly seem happy to steal this load - he'd never done it before, and the "twists" aren't exactly a surprise. The action is distracting for the most part - but overblown spectacle doesn't replace genuine excitement, and, as Burt Reynolds discovered, how many times can you watch a truck crash before it gets old.
The performances are not great. Swayze is poor and just has a pained expression on his face throughout. Meat Loaf is a not so much a meatloaf as he is a huge glazed ham - he overacts and looks bugeyed like he was in one of his videos. Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky aren't great but their odd-couple interplay at least makes them interesting. The rest of the cast are familiar faces (Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus etc) but don't really have very much to do.
Overall it's quite enjoyable because the action scenes are quite good. The story is daft and the actors don't have much to do but the sheer spectacle of it covers the whole for most of the film. Almost. The final five minutes is dumb and typical of the film's sense of spectacle over substance.