Decent little time travel flick starring Fred Ward who stars as a motocross racer who unknowingly (and accidentally) gets sent back in time to the old west.......bike, red racing uniform, helmet and all.
He's on some kind of cross country race (I think it's the Baja race) and happens make a wrong turn, accidentally driving through an area right as some scientists go about a time travel experiment. He gets zapped back in the old west.
They managed to stretch their low budget pretty well and the performances are all pretty good, including Peter Coyote with a mouthful of gold teeth.
The only thing that kind of bugged me is that I don't think that at any point in the film does Fred Ward's charcter Lyle Swann think to himself "Hey, I must have somehow traveled back in time!" In fact, I don't think that there was a single moment that he realizes that, even at the somewhat abrupt ending in which he is saved.
My friend's were taking up for his character in saying "how is he supposed to know that he got sent back in time when he didn't even know such a thing was taking place ", but it still kind of bugged me.
but I still enjoyed it and Fred Ward always has been IMO a criminally underused and underappreciated actor and he does pretty solid work here.
The movie does take a little while to get going, as I'm no exaggerating that the 1st 10 minutes are a POV shot of Lyle racing to a really goofy guitar riff based soundtrack.
