Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway (2008)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Tom Berenger stars in a TV movie called "Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway". He portrays a criminal named Eddie Larson who decides to kidnap two young women below 18 after he was rejected by his wife into becoming a part of his family once again after he was released from prison. Or as what the first few scenes intend to imply.Torri Higginson co-star as the policewoman who handles the amber alert case together with Genevieve Buechner and Britt McKillip as Debra and Katie respectively as the young women kidnapped by Larson. No question that the viewers already know the ending to the story after the scene wherein Larson kidnaps the two children.All we are going to watch are subplots to the story like Chief Geiger and his son Pete's poor relationship and Pete and Katie's romantic relationship that was on the brink of breaking up until the girlfriend got kidnapped.Despite having a great actor in Tom Berenger who did very well as Eddie Larson, what happens is the fact that the TV movie instead becomes substandard in the end. The subplots were simply clichéd and have already been done before.Added to that,there was nothing really told in the story except the fact that the police conducts an amber alert when a person below 18 years of age goes missing. Too bad that Berenger's presence does not even make it better despite of having a good performance.As for the young actresses portraying the kidnapped children, both practically did nothing except crying and bawling.The scenes a la "Two For The Road" wherein the communication between the kidnapped young women and kidnapper while driving out of state until the Larson was killed provided nothing interesting at all.

On Lifetime the movie is called "Desperate Hours". I wish they wouldn't do this, it's very confusing.I notice that a lot of movies do this. So when looking for info, you might have to just search for info on the character themselves., which sometimes takes extra time,but I guess if you really want to know you will take the time.I enjoy Tom Berringer movies every since I saw him in the movie The Substitute where he played a teacher undercover after his girlfriend is assaulted by some gang members. That movie had a very good story line and it was exciting from start to finish. Don't know why he wasn't in any of the sequels.But I really enjoyed this movie.

Larsan (Tom Berenger) is a dangerous armed drifter. He gets out of prison and confronts his ex-wife looking for his daughter Kaylee. The car breaks down. He carjacks 18 year old Debra (Genevieve Buechner) leaving her friend Sandy (Jessica Parker Kennedy) behind. 17 year old Katie (Britt McKillip) storms out of home with boyfriend Pete. Larsan kidnaps Katie. Pete is able to call the cops. Chief Geiger (Torri Higginson) activates the Amber Alert system.Tom Berenger is a veteran actor, and he's able to give a threatening performance despite some cheesy talking-to-himself. Britt McKillip shows some acting skills. But mostly both girls cried a lot.... I mean a whole lot. The whole movie is either an advertisement for the Amber Alert, or a really lazy writing assignment for a film school. There really isn't much here. The only drama comes from the girls and Tom Berenger. Nothing else is really that interesting. Don't expect anything more than the simplest TV movie-of-the-week.

terrible editing! you can see numerous scenes where the editing is poorly done and the actor they used as the kidnapper is awful.there's no way that you should seriously watch this movie unless you have nothing else to do or you are being forced to watch it as a sign of torture.It's just not a very good movie at all. poor writing and poor film editing really make this a sub par quality movie.Just avoid the pain of having to sit through this movie!perhaps if they were to replace the actor with someone who actually knows how to act and improve the editing quality of this film it might be worth watching on TV. don't buy the DVD as you are wasting your money.