Evasive Action (A pure 90's action movie name) is a very low-budget, low-quality & direct-to-the-Shelves of Blockbuster type Action film with a top notch cast of know-the-face actors & B-movie stars.
I liked this way more than Con Air.
Top of the list is the legendary Roy Scheider, one of my all-time favorite actors, this guy is a movie legend & has Starred in many brilliant movies over the course of his Career with Classic films such as Jaws, Jaws 2, The French Connection, The Seven-Ups, Last Embrace & Blue Thunder, just for an example. Scheider is an actor i just love to watch in anything & here in this trashy little B-movie he's still a fun watch. The 90's & early 2000's was Scheider's later-in-Career paycheck parts, where he probably done those cheap flicks simply for an easy paycheck but he's always decent on screen because he was a great actor R. I. P & i generally enjoy his 90's/2000's B-movie work such as Pluto's Run (With Gary Busey) & The Peacekeeper (With Dolph Lundgren) & The Doorway & Daybreak & Executive Target (With Michael Madsen) for example & their all pure 90's Low-budget B-movies but Scheider is always watchable. Here Scheider plays a crime boss, he's an evil villain, who is on his way to a new maximum security prison by train but escapes with a bunch of fellow criminals, all know-the-face characters (Don Swayze, Clint Howard & a few other's) & there's a good guy prisoner on their too who wants to stop them. The prisoner's take over the train & their's lots of Action & shootouts, it's all done very cheaply of course & the film is a cheaper version of CON AIR really but on a train or a secret sequel as it even mentions the events of Con Air. There's nothing great about this film but it is a fun little ride full of character actors & fun action. Dorian Harwood (Full Metal Jacket, Sudden Death, Pacific Hights) plays the good guy prisoner & main hero, named Luke Sinclair, a likeable character & even more so with the reason why he's locked-up, see his family was murdered & the piece of sh#t that did it got off (the "Justice System" doesn't work) so Luke shoots the scum outside the Court house & i totally agree with his vigilante actions.
Ed 'O Ross (Another 48hrs,Red Heat) stars as a prison warden & Ray Wise (Robocop,Jeepers Creepers 2) plays a Sheriff & Rance Howard (Terminal Velocity, The 'Burbs,Universal Soldier,Ticks ) & Keith Coogan (Adventures in Babysitting,Toy Soldiers) it's just nice seeing all these faces we know from many other movies pop up throughout this cheap 'n' cheesy film.
Evasive Action is a simple, cheap B-movie through & through & i like it, it's as simple as that.
