Vanishing Point
1997 Directed by Charles Robert Carner
Synopsis
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, attempts to elude police while trying to get home. After numerous chases he turns into a Native American reservation and reflects on his life, and his wife. He heads off to break through a police roadblock.
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I don't know what I expected from a made-for-tv remake, but I'm not happy with what I got. The cast is pretty interesting (Viggo, Keith David, the tough girl from Child's Play 2), but nothing else is interesting at all.
I guess I respect them for not just doing a shot-for-shot remake or something, but it seems like every decision was made by a guy who never saw the original, never intended to see the remake and just wanted something to play in the middle of Dairy Queen commercials. Oh, that's exactly how it went.
P.S. There's a scene where Kowalski fights a mountain lion.
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Awful. Awful. Awful. Everything you could do to fuck up a movie, this did.
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I don't know what I expected from a made-for-tv remake, but I'm not happy with what I got. The cast is pretty interesting (Viggo, Keith David, the tough girl from Child's Play 2), but nothing else is interesting at all.
I guess I respect them for not just doing a shot-for-shot remake or something, but it seems like every decision was made by a guy who never saw the original, never intended to see the remake and just wanted something to play in the middle of Dairy Queen commercials. Oh, that's exactly how it went.
P.S. There's a scene where Kowalski fights a mountain lion.