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 Egregious
Cannonball Run
Burt Reynolds, et al
Zero
Stars
On Amazon i have to give at least one
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Stinks on ice.
More offensive, hence worse, than "Robot Monster".
The worst of the films inspired by the real "Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea
Trophy Dash" created by and promoted in "Car & Driver" magazine by Brock
Yates, who perpetrated the script for this thing.
I'd like to have been able to have given it two stars, if only for the amusing
conceit of one of the drivers being played Roger Moore, as a rich Jewish
boy who believes he's James Bond, driving Bond's gimmicked DB5 and with a
different gorgeous girl riding with him every time we see him.
{{In my
original version of this review, originally posted to Amazon, i repeated
what i had been told as fact, that a stuntwoman was left paralysed due to
a malfunction of one of the Bond car's gimmicks. By coincidence, almost
immediately after posting the review, i read a news story that mentioned
the incident and said that it had been a "routine" accident in filming.
{{While this is merely an accident, rather than the incompetence implied
by the other version, one is still led to consider that quite a few stuntplayers
die or are maimed/injured in filming "action" movies -- some even worse than
this turkey.}}
Pass this up. Watch the vastly superior "Gumball Rally", or the merely greatly
superior "Cannonball" (featuring a young Stallone and Veronica Hamel, among
others including the usual Corman/Bartel Stock Company -- Corman and Brtel
themselves, mary Woronov, Dick Miller, directors Joe Dante and Alan Arkush,
and others whose faces you'll remember as soon as you see them, if not their
names). |
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