The main reason, and if I'm honest probably also the only one, why I watched this movie was because Emilio Estevez and Cuba Gooding Jr. were in it. I didn't exactly expect the best movie I had seen in years, but with these two actors, I at least expected to see a decent movie. But I'm afraid I'll have to change my mind on that one. This was a very disappointing movie.
The story seems to be OK, at least in the beginning when you see four guys going to a boxing match. They don't go with a normal car like other people would do, they take a huge camper. But OK, no problem with that. As long as it serves the movie, I can live with it... and it does, because when they get completely stuck in a traffic jam and don't seem to find a way to pass some cars quickly, they decide to leave the highway and try an alternative route trough a neighborhood that doesn't look all too inviting. The four friends start thinking of going back to the highway when all a sudden they hit something or someone. When they stop they see a man lying on the ground and their first reaction is to call 911. But the driver starts to freak out (he has been drinking, he doesn't know if he's well insured...) and they decide to take him with them in the camper and to bring him to a hospital. And then all the misery starts. Not only has the man been shot, the ones who did it are now chasing the four friends...
At first I still could live with the idea that they had left the highway, got into trouble... but as the movie kept going on, it annoyed me enormously. The bad guys always seemed to know where the four friends were going and never gave up the chase, the good guys always made the most stupid decisions possible,... And of course the good ones have to act like heroes and yes people get killed on both sides, but in the end the good will always prevail, right?
If there is one positive thing that I can say about this movie, than it must be something about the acting. I'm not saying it was the best of the best, but it was decent and quite believable. Nevertheless, it doesn't save this movie and that's why I can only give it a 5/10.
The story seems to be OK, at least in the beginning when you see four guys going to a boxing match. They don't go with a normal car like other people would do, they take a huge camper. But OK, no problem with that. As long as it serves the movie, I can live with it... and it does, because when they get completely stuck in a traffic jam and don't seem to find a way to pass some cars quickly, they decide to leave the highway and try an alternative route trough a neighborhood that doesn't look all too inviting. The four friends start thinking of going back to the highway when all a sudden they hit something or someone. When they stop they see a man lying on the ground and their first reaction is to call 911. But the driver starts to freak out (he has been drinking, he doesn't know if he's well insured...) and they decide to take him with them in the camper and to bring him to a hospital. And then all the misery starts. Not only has the man been shot, the ones who did it are now chasing the four friends...
At first I still could live with the idea that they had left the highway, got into trouble... but as the movie kept going on, it annoyed me enormously. The bad guys always seemed to know where the four friends were going and never gave up the chase, the good guys always made the most stupid decisions possible,... And of course the good ones have to act like heroes and yes people get killed on both sides, but in the end the good will always prevail, right?
If there is one positive thing that I can say about this movie, than it must be something about the acting. I'm not saying it was the best of the best, but it was decent and quite believable. Nevertheless, it doesn't save this movie and that's why I can only give it a 5/10.