Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This very low budget action movie came out at a time in the late 70's when there was a definite fashion for what can best be described as good ole boy movies, i.e. films set in the American deep south involving chirpy criminals, dumb cops and lots of car chases. In Hot Pursuit certainly is another one from this general bracket. Its plot-line is really quite negligible, it is mainly about car chases and the like.The heroes are improbably a gang of drug smugglers who continually attempt to evade the local authorities. This of course leads to a plethora of extended car chase sequences. In the end credits, it states bluntly that 'no stunt men were used in this film' and this looks very probable given scenes such as the one where a couple of guys hang off a helicopter flying at a great height after a jail break busts them out of prison. It's pretty obvious that we are seeing the actual two main actors from the film do this very dangerous activity but then having said that, these guys are hardly actors either given the standard of acting in the movie – no one involved in this seems to have did anything else! Still, the dangerous looking stunts do make for interesting viewing. Aside from the helicopter stuff, there are many car destruction scenes and a point-of-view shot of a plane take-off where I swear it must have clipped the trees. So, for sure, health and safety wasn't a priority during the making of this one that is for sure. It is essentially the various stunts and the authentic rural south location setting that elevates this one from being a total dud, as other than this it is pretty monotonous. My best advice would be to watch it as a curiosity piece and you might get at least something out of it.

I haven't seen this movie yet, but my husband has. He said it stunk as bad as the previous commenter said.My take on it is, I grew up just a few miles from where the plane landed, just down Highway 100. My dad and my uncle heard about it on their CB radios and went up to see it before the Sheriff ever got there. A short time later, they took the rest of us up the hill to see it. The plane was empty, but it was amazing how small the clearing was in which they landed this plane.Literally, a square landing field was made in the middle of the woods. There were tree stumps and debris and Georgia red mud, it was like a choppy ocean with hard, stationary waves.The plane had clipped pine trees as it came down and there were still pine needles stuck in the prop.I was only about 10 and I'll never forget how surreal it was. Maybe if I ever actually see the flick, I'll come back and tell you how they did.

Boy, they just don't make them like this one anymore. Thank God for that! This is a pathetically dreary film about a "gang" of drug smugglers and their not-so-funny misadventures as they are hounded by the Georgia State Patrol while first in a beat up camper and then a huge rig. I would guess that at least half of the film is made up of lame chases, which is considerably better than having the acting "leads" on screen for any time at all. The police are portrayed as complete idiots as they have multiple cars unable to derail a camper until a fifteen minute chase has ended - only to have the "gang" break out of prison by a helicopter. The two leads are long-haired non-actors Don Watson and Bobby Watson playing Oosh and Boosh. They are criminals with no redeeming attributes and live to have a joint. The other performers are just as talented with some really bad turns by the likes of James Crews as "Bubble Eye, " Sandy St. Armour as the head of "the Organization, " and in the most ridiculous role we have Jim Whozitt(sometimes credited as Big Jim - c'mmon this is the only film he ever did) as the Pilot. He is flying to Columbia to get 10 million's worth in cocaine and pot and wears the most God-awful sansabelt slacks even for the 70's. This is a bad movie all around and very amateurish, but unlike other inept efforts in film-making - this one is just no fun at all to sit through. It plods on and on, trying to funny in some spots and failing miserably. It fails when it tries to shock a few times as well. This makes the Smokey and the Bandit series almost look like art.

If more people had seen this movie, I'm sure it would have a high (or low) place on the IMDb's 100 lowest rated films. It's a worthy companion to Ed Wood's flicks or anything you might see on MST3K.This very low-budget production was inspired by a real life event in rural Polk County, Georgia. Some long-forgotten state legislator thought it was intriguing enough to have a movie made about it (it wasn't). So he got some minimal financing and hired a cast and crew which apparently was mostly amateurs and made this great embarrassment of an action film. It may be cruel to make fun of such obviously handicapped folks (in terms of their moviemaking talents) but it's impossible not to laugh at the sheer ineptitude of this effort. Every element of this movie is hilariously bad- the acting, the screenwriting, the "production design" and "special effects"- even the film's title theme song will have you in stitches.I realize that no one will hardly ever have a chance to see this movie. It came and went with barely a trace, probably even in Polk County. I saw it myself on a brief run as the opener at a local drive-in. Incredibly, though, I saw it one night on television, on some kind of syndicated "action theatre" network. It was shown under a different name, which I can't recall. But there's no doubt you'd know it if you saw it.