Product Description

Jack Crews, veteran truck driver, is being chased by Red, a fanatic who's as deadly as he is greedy.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4213 in DVD
• Brand: SWAYZE,PATRICK
• Released on: 1998-10-14
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 89 minutes

Amazon.com
An ex-con daredevil trucker must reinfect himself with white-line fever in order to save his wife and kid from nasty gunrunners in this enjoyably mindless, twisted-metal-fest from the director of Passenger 57. Longtime MIA action stud Patrick Swayze (who snagged the part after Kevin Sorbo had to suddenly vacate due to health problems) is even more expressionless than usual in the lead role, but helmer Kevin Hooks compensates with a seriously rocking country soundtrack, some pleasantly eccentric supporting characters (including erstwhile crooner Randy Travis and a way-over-the-top Meatloaf as a psychotic trucker preaching damnation by the dashboard light), and--most importantly--a whole lot of rolling iron getting smashed in spectacularly kinetic fashion. A low-down, down-home, cotton-picking flick that blows up real good. --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews

A MUST SEE FOR EVERY TRUCKER!
This is a good action movie. If you have never driven a truck, then some of the details of the film probably will be lost on you. However, anyone who likes action and the trucking lifestyle should enjoy this movie. I give it "two thumbs up."

"Smokey and the Bandit" Revisited
Cool sountrack...nowhere near Jerry Reed's heartfelt "Eastbound and Down" or "Bandit." Most of the songs are covers.

This time around the hero is driving the truck while "blocked" by a Chevy Camaro.

This time around there actually is a country music star bigger than Jerry Reed as a co-star...Randy Travis.

This time around the FBI is the pursuer rather than a lowly and comical "texas county mounty." 'Corruption within the the machine' is quite evident.

The original additions that make this movie watchable is the fact that personal/family connections are emulated. It's not just Cletus stopping in a roadside bar making a call....then gettin beat up for his efforts. And there is no developing romance between the hero and a "hitchess" ( I miss Sally Field!).
The phone calls are reminiscent of the Alabama song "ROLL ON"! But with a different struggle for the ones at home.

And as for the Black Dog...well, he's the philosophical vehicle in this film.

Good flick...see it!

All movies are worth seeing whether termed 'good' or 'bad.'

Beyond silly
I watch (and love) zombie movies, so my ability to suspend disbelief or to enjoy mindless mayhem is extremely high. I don't even mind Mr Swayze in the right film. Red Dawn or Point Break? Watch them anytime. Road House or Next of Kin? Well, maybe not all the way through, but I can always make it to the next commercial break if I'm channel surfing and I see one of them. But this is so absurd, with such endless data dumps where Mr Swayze has to explain to the other characters his own back story or the inner workings of truck brakes (yawn on both counts), and with villains who are beyond comic relief to being just Darwin award winners, that it's impossible to sit through.