Red Line (1995 Video)
10/10
Crummy Movie,Great Corvette ZR1scenes!
25 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this on broadcast TV Late Movie and was both disappointed and excited. I saw the description as having Chad McQueen and wished to really just see if he looked like his dad. The writing and editing was at best abysmal! The car chases were the best part except for some editing...a first year film student could have done better!! Spoiler data 2 follow so stop now if you care....... First the ZR-1 scenes were VERY cool...jumps and stuff and at the end they smash it into a brick wall!!!!! WAY COOL! At one point Chad must steal a car to get away from the bad guy...any guesses which car?....his dad's Mustang Bullit car of course! The cinematography is at times archaic and unique at others but is overdone. In one scene as they race through a cemetery skirting death the camera does a 360 degree shot that is very unique but they do it several times and you actually get dizzy! They apparently didn't have $ to do long chase scenes so they used a couple cameras then used the different shots. The only problem was it was WAY obvious and were used minutes later in obviously the SAME unique location. It actually looked worse than "Airwolf" ...same shot of Chad shifting...mob guy close up..same shot Chad shifting...ad infinitum! One scenes editing was laughable they used the EXACT SAME SEQUENCE TWICE....they went around a curve and a Ford model "A or T" was coming toward them and it even "ahhhh-oooo-ga"ed....Not once...but TWICE! They didn't even edit the sound!!!

Being a Corvette nut I searched many stores at the mall today...but there are SO many films with the name RED LINE spelled different ways I just decided to find it here....BTW, oddly a 1997 sci-fi flick of the same name ALSO has a C4 Vette on the cover.

If you like Vettes, or thought Stalone in Cobra was a comedy....you gotta see this movie!!
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