United Artists
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
Sam Peckinpah directs this inferior Smokey and the Bandit clone. The trademark Peckinpah violence is wasted on slow motion shots of bar fights and truck wrecks. In one particularly gratuitous scene, the trucks are shown in an extended montage as they dance ballet-like through dust and dirt. There are endless close ups of Kristofferson's steel blue eyes that are supposed to show him deep in thought but only reveal the hollowness of his character and the movie. It goes on for nearly 2 hours. Still, there is some redeeming cinematography of the New Mexico desert.
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