Despite the movie's generally negative reception, Roger Ebert gave it a "thumbs-up". His colleague Gene Siskel, on the other hand, named it the worst movie of 1993.
Burt Reynolds has said he mainly did the film to have a movie that his son Quinton could see with him in it.
Andrew Reynolds: The professional skater nephew of star uncle Burt Reynolds plays a skateboard kid boy who has his skate-board stolen from him by Devon Butler (Norman D. Golden II). Burt Reynolds got him the part on this picture.