So there I was walking through Target when I spied Hooper on DVD for 6 bucks. I had read an article in Maxim magazine about a stunt in the movie where a car races under a collapsing smokestack and I was eager to see that plus I'm a fan of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. So I bought it. Good thing it was cheap.
Hooper is just a movie about stuntmen so there isn't much in the way of plot or acting. The stunts are good but they should be in a movie about stuntmen. Burt is himself like in most of his movies. There was one thing about this movie that really disappointed me. The smokestack scene that I wanted to see, the scene that I bought the movie for, the scene that Maxim explained at length, was faked! Looking at the sequence frame by frame you can see that the car is inserted into the shot. I was a little mad to say the least.
Bottom Line: Other than the searing pain that accompanied the realization that I had been cheated, it wasn't such a bad movie. Maybe not something I would by again, but ok overall.
Hooper is just a movie about stuntmen so there isn't much in the way of plot or acting. The stunts are good but they should be in a movie about stuntmen. Burt is himself like in most of his movies. There was one thing about this movie that really disappointed me. The smokestack scene that I wanted to see, the scene that I bought the movie for, the scene that Maxim explained at length, was faked! Looking at the sequence frame by frame you can see that the car is inserted into the shot. I was a little mad to say the least.
Bottom Line: Other than the searing pain that accompanied the realization that I had been cheated, it wasn't such a bad movie. Maybe not something I would by again, but ok overall.