This is one of those films that was always on when I was a kid, now many years latter I get to view through the eys of a big kid.
It is still great!
The plot is beautifuly simple and no effort is made to complicate it.
An awful lot of the film is police cars screeching around and crashing.
The dialouge is as sparse as it is cheesey.
This is real anarchic silly fun.
There is more than enough here to upset a modern, sensative audience from sterotypes to dodgy flags.
You can actually feel the ozone layer deplete as hundreds of trucks and card overrev there way across the countryside.
But this really taps into a simpler time - a time where every little thing wasn't held under a microscope - and should be viewed as such
This is pre digital so all the stunts are real and you can really feel the rubber hitting the tarmac.
Technically the editing is choppy, each car chase feeling a bit isolated but I can forgive it that.
It is still great!
The plot is beautifuly simple and no effort is made to complicate it.
An awful lot of the film is police cars screeching around and crashing.
The dialouge is as sparse as it is cheesey.
This is real anarchic silly fun.
There is more than enough here to upset a modern, sensative audience from sterotypes to dodgy flags.
You can actually feel the ozone layer deplete as hundreds of trucks and card overrev there way across the countryside.
But this really taps into a simpler time - a time where every little thing wasn't held under a microscope - and should be viewed as such
This is pre digital so all the stunts are real and you can really feel the rubber hitting the tarmac.
Technically the editing is choppy, each car chase feeling a bit isolated but I can forgive it that.