Really Surprised!

An absolute waste of money

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This movie is kind of a weaker "Midnight Run" film. I liked it a bit more than a lot apparently as it is scored rather low here. I found it rather humorous and I liked how it played out. I enjoy films of this nature just as I enjoyed "Midnight Run". This one has a bunch in common with that film, it also reminds me a bit of a film called "Dead Bang" with Don Johnson as the bad guys at the end were very similar. This one though is a bit of a road trip movie on a smaller scale than "Midnight Run", however it works in its own simple way. Mainly because Clint Eastwood is in it and he adds something to this movie to be sure. The film features Peters as a woman who is married to a guy who has been hanging with the wrong crowd. She ends up arrested, jumps bail with her husband's pink Cadillac and her and her baby are on the run. Enter Clint who is the bounty hunter assigned to tracking her down. Things are not all that cut and dry though as something of interest is hidden within that car. Like I said, for what it was I enjoyed it. It was not Clint's best movie, or even his best comedy, but I thought it was enjoyable.

You should add Jim Carrey to the cast list.Jim Carrey, (credited in the movie as James Carrey) has a part on stage in the Casino doing an Elvis Presley interpretation. He is shown in the background while Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters are talking.She says she is tired of hearing Elvis, referring to Carey and Eastwood grimaces when he sees Jim Carrey's act on stage.As usual, Jim Carrey's face seems to be made of flexible latex.This was not his first movie, nor his first Clint Eastwood movie. Jim also appeared in Clint Eastwood's The Dead Pool as James Carrey and prior to that he appeared in Earth Girls Are Easy.

Skip-tracer Tommy Nowak is the man who chases down people who have jumped bail and to get his target he does it in many different disguises. Now his on the tail of Lou Ann McGuinn, who has hit the road in her husband's, pink Cadillac that has a quarter of a million in the trunk. Nowak is not only one after her, as the money belongs to a group Neo-Nazis that want it back. Eastwood has been in his fair share of duds and this one could be added to the list too. The lively rapport between Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters is what makes this forgettable outing admirably watchable. The offbeat premise comes across like a live cartoon, but when it goes for a serious drama touch it loses its spark, falls into a uneven patch and the tongue-in-cheek script just doesn't work with its grim sub-plot involving white-supremacists. It moves away from humorous gimmick to follow a systematically overlong and goalless old-hat narrative of two-dimensional good guys, bad guys on a road trip. Oh, and what bunch of numbskulls the bad guys were! These hammy Neo-Nazis have got to be most inept and over-the-top bunch of villains I've seen in any movie. Especially since I think they are supposed be realistically based, than being comically goofy (as they come across). They spit out a good quota of brainless drivel that simply bores you. Eastwood's joyfully loose performance has to be one of his better ones (though not the movie), which he generates warmth, wit and truly gives out zesty attitude that shows he loving every minute of it. A very cute Peters is delightfully good along side him and adds a real pluckiness to her seductively sweet-hearted character. Geoffrey Lewis is quite run in his minor role as the spaced out hippie. Bill Moseley shows up and there are blink and you'll miss them parts by Jim Carrey and musician Bryan Adams. Director Buddy Van Horn plays it straight with his filming techniques. It can feel drawn-out because of the relax nature of his style, but he does milk out some nice backdrops and minor characters along the trip. It does turn heavy-handed towards the end though, when a slight dose of action goes "Duke Hazard". Swift camera-work and a rousing country tied score are cooked up too. In all it's definitely one of Eastwood's lesser film vehicles that harmlessly passes the time in a light-hearted, mediocre pink Cadillac ride.

As mentioned in another comment, this film is very, very similar to the brilliant De Niro movie Midnight Run which came out a year before this one. This one pales in comparison unfortunately. I wouldn't have thought it was a deliberate move by Eastwood to cash in on the success of Midnight Run, because I don't think Clint has to ride on anyone's coat tails, and was Midnight Run a big hit anyway? Actually this must be one of Clints least known films, its very rarely shown on TV here in Great Britain, in fact I think it went straight to video, a Clint Eastwood film straight to video! It must be really bad yeah? well no, not really, but not exactly great either. Its a pleasant enough way to spend a couple of hours, and does show Clint doing different things. He takes on different persona's in his Bounty hunter role to catch the crooks including a DJ and a redneck, which I thought was hilarious, really funny. Bernadette Peters was really good in this I thought as well, bright and quirky. What really let it down was the gang of Nazi redneck bikers (or whatever they were meant to be), they bordered on comedy villains, in fact I kept waiting for Clyde the Orangatun to wander on screen and punch them out and drink all their beer! So one for Clint fans only I'm afraid (like me!) P.S See if you can spot Jim Carrey AND Canadian rocker Bryan Adams in the film.