Fast Getaway (1991)

Touches You

Let's be realistic.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Corey Haim, Leo Rossi, Cynthia Rothrock, Ken Lerner and Marcia Strassman star in this 1991 action-comedy. The late, Haim (The Lost Boys) plays teenager, Nelson who has spent most of his life with his father, Sam (Rossi) robbing banks. Soon, they have a falling out with former partners, Lily (Rothrock) and Tony (Lerner). Nelson and Sam attempt to rob another bank without them, but get caught by police thanks to Lily. Nelson meets Lorraine (Strassman) who claims to be an old friend of Sam's, but after Nelson breaks Sam out of Jail, he learns she's his mother he never knew. Soon, Lily and Tony decide to get payback by kidnapping Nelson and Sam attempts to rescue him with Lorraines's help. I remember when this used to be on TV a lot years ago, it's not bad and Haim and Rossi were great together. I recommend this.

A rather entertaining (to me anyway) Corey Haim movie from 1991. It is a movie that is fast as the pace is fast as is the run time for this picture. So you do not have to invest a whole lot of time in this adventure, but to me it was a fun adventure. There is a gang of criminals that plan their heists to perfection. Everything is split second timing and the getaways are also to the letter. Well there are four members in this gang and as so often is the case there is a split as certain members get greedy and think they should get a bigger cut. So off goes two of the members leaving Corey Haim and his dad's character on their own and you find out quickly that the female and other guy in the gang are not nearly as effective without the other two. The brains of the outfit is the Corey Haim character and without him the other two are lost, so near the end of the film they kidnap him and force him to plan heists for them. The film is rather good, the cast is rather funny. Corey is good as the brains and I thought the guy playing his dad was rather good too as I loved the scene where they were falling off the bridge. Cynthia Rothrock plays the female of the gang and as I usually do not care for her in other movies she is okay here. She usually takes on this super guys in movies and once I saw a movie where she gets hit by this humongous guy dead on and she barely flinched, sorry not going to happen. She may be good at karate, but if she were to be hit as hard as it was depicted in that movie she would be unconscious on the ground. Here though she only takes on normal dudes and I figure she could handle them. There would later be a sequel to this film, but I did not enjoy that one at all.

Those who have the old sky movies will have stumbled on a film of this nature at some point. An unsuccessful, middle of the road, piece of light entertainment from years back. Perhaps a lesser known film in a once big stars career. This film is one such film. It is simple entertainment and not in the least bit testing. Corey Haim, a one time box office dynamo like fellow Corey, Mr Feldman, was at this point growing old. He was at an age where we could no longer forgive his annoyances because of his youth, he was just plain annoying and audiences didn't watch his films. Soon after this film Haim, like Feldman (who in fact had far more acting talent than Haim) dropped into DTV obscurity. I remember watching another film of Haims; License To Drive which was more of a success yet the same simple formula of light hearted comical hi-jinks. Fast Getaway is worth a watch.Co-starring is the pocket rocket herself, the queen of action, Cynthia Rothrock. This was the biggest film to date in her career and could have been a break through in her career, but the film flopped, so it wasn't. However from her showing in this Rothrock doesn't look out of place in a more substantially budgeted film than her DTV chop-socky flicks. Rothrock plays a real horny dynamo of a woman who by the end of the film severely beats the hell out of all her male co-stars. What we learn is two things: 1): She could kick their buts easily in real life, and 2): I would love her to kick the crap out of me! Rothrock is sexy, no doubt and the Haim and Leo Rossi (His father in the film) even discuss the plumpness and roundness of her boobies which in a strange way is almost in a way a conversation with the male audience as well! The film is about a bank robbing father and son team, who break away from their other two partners, after a ruck, including Lilly (Rothrock). Lilly was going out with Sam (Nelsons father) and when she wanted to cut out the young and annoying Nelson, Sam didn't like it. So what we have is a long seen where Cynthia absolutely kicks the living be-Jesus out of Leo Rossi who actually looked like he was taking a few hard shots there. Lilly with her incredibly vivacious sex drive disbands with the idiot Tony who revels in being her sex toy (lucky SOB!). They are soon rivals and of course the two groups face off down the line.The film is funny. It's not laugh a minute, bawl out loud stuff and that's a reason it didn't do good business. However there's chemistry between Haim and Rossy and some decent dramatic moments. There's a fair bit of teenage angst compared to other films of this genre however they are not greatly handled because director Spiro Sparatozozoazoozoa or whatever his name is is actually a stunt co-ordinator by trade. His direction is incompetent but he pulls off some neat car chases throughout the movie. Haim is for the most part actually quite likable despite the hyperactivity, awful hair and fashion, but in truth if you've put up with modern teen stars in their films theses days, the likes of Feldman and Haim make a refreshing and far more likable change. This is basic teen-comedy fare that is a darn sight more enjoyable than recent big budget pap. At least I didn't finish wanting to insert a fork into my eye ball! **1/2

It's a shame this movie came out in 1991. I think it probably could've done much MUCH better, if it were an 80's flick. The movie had that classic 80's soundtrack, and fashion nailed. And I'm an 80's kid... So I guess I just kind of clicked with this movie. I has seen segments from it once before many years ago on television, and I decided one day to pick it up for kicks at the video store. and I liked it. Corey Haim did a good job playing an overly energetic criminal mastermind. I don't know exactly why I liked this movie. But it's fun, although it did leave a lot of questions left unanswered (which is why a sequel was necessary, but some of those questions still weren't answered)... What happened to Honey? The girl who laid him? Did he not EVER think of her again? Did Nelson's parents get back together? What about Sam being broken out of prison? Did the police just NOT care, and never looked for him again? Anyways... I'm going to stop critiquing a movie that I like. And just tell you, if you haven't seen this movie... Rent it, or see if you catch it on USA or something...