Al Pagura is a young race car driver looking for a big break, and Andrea Lombardo is a hot young Italian engineer trying to sell her new innovative engine design. She is kidnapped by the Beast Master, who wants the engine designs for his own car. Pagura and his team of misfit pit crew dudes go on an adventure of wacky hi-jinx to get the girl and ultimately win the big race. If this review sounds cheesy, it is because this movie is, and not in a good way, no good lines, no unintentionally funny scenes, basically its like the latter episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard, totally yokely and a waste of film. This movie should only be watched after drinking 10 beers, then it may be good, other than that, stay away. Oh and Pagura gets this totally hot chick to fall for him almost immediately, saved her, then bam, doin it. Completely unbelievable, totally predictable, and most importantly only slightly funny, but even thats a stretch. If you are a fan of latter Dukes of Hazzard or have some unholy obsession with the Beast Master this may be for you.
Add a Review
-
party pat15 May 2006
-
pontiac-56 September 2022Had it not come first I would suspect this was inspired by Days of Thunder, but it's two years earlier and appears to be on a lower budget, with many in the cast coming from television roles. George Kennedy is perhaps the biggest name actor. The story is so-so and kind of predictable, down on luck race team on the verge of making it big crosses paths with a young woman engineer who has plans to greatly improve race engines, which are stolen along with her. Oddly they're in the second tier Busch Grand National series rather than the then Winston Cup series, but it's nice to see clips of those cars in action. Humpy Wheeler and David Pearson have cameos. Appears some of it was filmed inside the DiGard racing shops (if you're paying attention in one scene the logo appears on a door).
It's also clear the editing people had never actually seen a race, as they cut in several scenes of spins that would have brought out a caution but no caution comes out. Perhaps in the interest of time, race starts are skipped past for only a few minutes of race action at the end.
The soundtrack isn't bad, it's pure 1980s.
Is it really terrible, no, I found I enjoyed it, but if you're not a race fan you probably won't like it as much.
I found it on the internet, has it ever been released to home video? -
This is the type of film that you would watch it a drive-in after you take the beer out of the trunk, and a few people that you smuggled in so they wouldn't have to pay. It's a D grade action film about a sport that people don't go to see in the movies. They go to see it live, and even then, it's a select type of audience. Joseph Bottoms, Marc Singer, Dirk Blocker and even George Kennedy (basically playing the same character that he played in the "Airport" and "Naked Gun" movies star along with Marla Heasley in this good old dude flick that focuses on chases and shady characters over character development and plot. It involves a big race for big money and a kidnapping, padded out with some really dumb attempts at comedy where the leading characters just aren't interesting or smart enough to warrant interest in them, and outlandishly smarmy villains who are just too repulsive to want to look at. I couldn't find anything appealing about this movie at all. So if you want to see a movie where you sit for 90 minutes with your mouth agaape over how bad it is, this is it.