Before Tom Cruise, there was Tommy Lee Jones.Plot: A professional thief (Tommy Lee Jones) hides a stolen computer tape featuring the accounts of a villanous corporation in a futuristic car prototype. But before he can recover it, the prototype is stolen by a car theft ring. Now the thief has only 72 hours to enter the high-security skyscraper where the band operates...
Comments: For a film that has a script written by John Carpenter, this is not a very good film. But for a New World Pictures production made on a shoestring budget, it sure kicks ass. Despite being made in the 80s, this is actually a very 70s film, meaning it favours suspense instead of action. Rather than "Snake Plisskin" lite, think of Walter Hill's "The Driver" + "Mission Impossible". Well, plus "Knight Rider" or any other "vehicle" TV series, because the car prototype gets as much closeups than Jones.
The cast is also a plus. Tommy Lee Jones is quite convincing as the film's hero, if a bit wooden, but we get to see Linda Hamilton in a rare
femme fatale role, and Robert Vaughn as a damn creepy villain. His character is even a bit original, because rather than a flamboyant criminal mastermind he's a rather mediocre, bureaucrat-type criminal, whose only excentricities are a gigantic crush on Linda Hamilton (I can't blame him) and a penchant for filming sex tapes.
