Midweek Mention... Breakdown

Breakdown

Dan: Breakthrough.

Breakdown A danger zone. Yeah. It's breakdown this movie.

Sidey: So happy that we're keeping it mid nineties.

Dan: Yeah. Well we, we. Pleased with that last time out. And we, with our copycat film and this is the same era, totally different actors though.

I had, I remember seeing this first time round.

I

Sidey: I had not

Reegs: yeah, I'd seen this before.

Dan: Kurt's, Kurt's hair looking. Oh,

Sidey: I said it during the film. It's like he's got the best hair in Hollywood.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: And you see a lot of hair.

Sidey: we get to it in the breeze and everything in this

Dan: one. Exactly. He's just cruising along in the car with his wife. He's lovely wife.

Reegs: Kathleen Quinlan,

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: Kathleen Quinlan. And they in their red Oke Jeep I guess just

Reegs: Cherokee.

Dan: Yeah, if you

Sidey: Grand Cherokee. Yeah. They're, they're relocating.

Reegs: Yeah, they're going from Boston to San [00:01:00] Diego,

Cris: Yeah. they have Massachusetts license plate, so

Sidey: place. I believe it means a Wales vagina

Dan: and they're going through Arizona to do it, I guess.

Seems very Arizona

Sidey: Monument Valley EE

Reegs: or

Death Valley or somewhere

Sidey: Yeah, it was, it was

Dan: very

Reegs: a valley.

they're driving along. She's asleep and he's like, he needs a drink, I think, doesn't he? So he is a

Dan: drops something. I dunno if

Reegs: he, he's reaching in the back. He's, he's, he's got a drink out, he

Sidey: was trying to finger her

Reegs: in it. He's, he, he's trying to fondle her while she's asleep.

He's reaching in the back and he doesn't realize that as he's going along a road that a sort of dusty old pickup kind of tries to pull

Sidey: out. Bit like Swayze's car.

Dan: Yeah, he, he takes his eyes off the road just for a moment. He swerves to avoid this car, which slams on the brakes.

Reegs: It was really the other guy's fault though. He came out really onto the

Sidey: Yeah. He was a bad, bad dude though. Yeah.

Dan: I'm not sure. It was really, he took his eyes off the road. I mean, if he'd have seen the,

Sidey: Yeah, but when it,

Dan: was a bit of both.

Reegs: Well,

he's on a main road and he's

Cris: road and he's got a red [00:02:00] car.

How did you not see a red car coming directly on you? And it's just

Sidey: a, it's a red background.

let's not fall out about

Reegs: nearly have it and a bit of fist shaking and whatever they

Dan: A a horn is honked. Yeah. And they stop a little bit later on in a garage and he's got his hood up. He's putting some water in. It's a hot day. So he is just checking the levels, I guess, as, as all good.

Mechanics do you do that in your car when you're going? Oh yeah, I've

I remember driving along in Australia and we had a van me and Gomes driving along and it must have been like

300

degrees outside or something. And we'd never checked the water levels at all and the car overheated.

Middle of

Sidey: the middle of nowhere

Dan: in the middle of nowhere in the fuck, middle of nowhere. He

Reegs: thought to put like, spare water in the back of the

Dan: car. No, no, no, no, no. So a lot like Kurt we were just stranded because he, after this garage, he's had a bit of an encounter in [00:03:00] there with the guy who pulled out on

Sidey: it.

Oh, he first, he is, he compliments him about his motor. Yeah. With his knee. So, oh, this is one of the new fancy ones of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Then he is like, you're the fucking bell who nearly killed me on the road. And it gets a bit tense.

Reegs: Yeah. And it's, you're used to seeing Kurt Russell most of the time as a bit of an action hero, but here he's kind

Sidey: bit

Reegs: bit neish and submissive.

Yeah.

Dan: got, he's got glasses on.

Reegs: got, has he, Jeff, he's got glasses

Dan: Yeah.

and so you can tell he's a bit bookish. Yeah. It must have been with all the reading that he's done. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah, the guy gives him a load of grief. I

Dan: want any trouble, man. Just let's, let's keep going. Okay. Okay.

Sidey: Yeah. Amy, Amy comes out from the shop and she's like, what's, what's going there? He is like, don't worry about it. It's just that guy, but it's, it's, it's nothing. It's, it's all fine and dealt with.

Reegs: And then they get in the car and he burns it off and he's going, hell for leather. Actually, she even comments on

Sidey: like, yeah.

Reegs: were going a bit fast here or

Sidey: whatever. Larry led foot's adventurous through the windshield.

Reegs: Yeah, exactly. And wouldn't, you know it their car suddenly starts to sputter

Sidey: single warning light comes on.

Reegs: Yeah. All at

Dan: All

at once and con's out in the middle of the [00:04:00] road. And so

Reegs: okay because I mean, not very long after they've broken down and they take it really well. By the way, this is a married couple.

If this happened to me and my wife, it would be who could stab each other first? Like by the time we were, it is like

Sidey: well, I would be in massive

Reegs: the middle of nowhere. Yeah,

Sidey: because I can't fix

Reegs: Can't fix anything. I can't fix

Sidey: Every light is on

Reegs: is,

on it. This is 1997, so no one's got a fucking phone or

Sidey: anything. I could.

If, if we had a flat, I could change that. Anything else? Nothing. They've got, yeah, they've got a really

Reegs: primitive work. Primitive,

Sidey: clamshell phone. Yeah. But yeah, if it was a spare tire, I could fix it out. Nothing else. That'd be fine. So I'd be panicking. It'd

Dan: Can you show in off for your spare tire skills?

Sidey: Hey.

Reegs: But it's all right for them because JT Walsh so rad. We last saw him in. Executive decision with Kurt for

Sidey: of films they've been in together.

Reegs: Oh, nice. He was in that, that we

Dan: Yeah, he's a truck driver cruising along. Actually, before we see

Reegs: Bar,

Dan: before we see him, we see the original kind of guy who's pulled out zip [00:05:00] past.

Yeah. And he's

Sidey: And he's just waiting on the brow of the hill looking at them.

Dan: right. And he's like, oh, fucking, oh, this is nervous. And then JT comes along in his truck and he says, nice as

Sidey: Yeah. But he is wearing double denim and shades, so I was a bit like, Hmm. Dunno about this guy.

Reegs: I once did that when I went to meet Chris Bie in town.

Sidey: but

Dan: he offers

Reegs: triple denim is the real like

Cris: where's the third one?

Reegs: and a jacket

Oh

Sidey: the front door.

Reegs: is a fucking look. Yeah.

Sidey: All the same shade. Yeah. Like stone

Reegs: it's

Dan: it's

denim shoes, denim socks, denim underwear, denim hat.

Reegs: Yeah. Denim gloves.

Dan: And he's nice as pie. He tries to get him started. He can't do it. He says, you know, there's a five kilometers down the road. We've got Bell's Diner drop you off there.

They could come and haul this away for you and get you back on the road, would you reckon? And he's like, Kurt, nah, look, I think it's just overheated. It needs to cool down a little bit. Let's

Sidey: he says, he says that, doesn't he? JT says, oh, these, these new [00:06:00] cars, you know, they're, they're all computers and stuff, so I don't really know how to fix them, but it's probably just overheated. I can take you down the road as Mrs. Like. Why are we gonna sit here in the fucking million degree heat? Like we could have just taken a ride with

him.

Dan: long did she get it? And

Sidey: she says, I'll go off with the stranger. Yeah, you stay here

Dan: he seems really Nice.

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: And that's where the trouble starts.

It's about 15 minutes in now. And it's been set up. So the breakdown has broken down, the car has gone she has got in the car with JT Lori, driver and heading off down the road. And it eventually an hour passes, two hours pass. He looks under the car and he spots that there's actually a wire,

them,

a whole bunch of

them unplugged. So he plugs them back in and sure enough the car Ros into shape again. And he goes down the road, goes to the diner. That was

Reegs: diner. Yeah. And there's immediately like this kind of [00:07:00] class thing

Dan: remember Jewel?

Reegs: Yeah. But it's the subtext. 'cause they're outta towners rich people. And these are kind of rednecks, basically living in the middle of nowhere.

And yeah. So

Sidey: they're not that

Reegs: they're not welcoming to

Sidey: Hey, he says, oh, my wife would've, would've been through here.

Yeah. Is that No. He's like, really? 'cause it would've been like about half an hour ago, he's like, nah, never seen her. And no one's like looking up, you know, no one's looking around offering any help. It's just like, get the fuck

Dan: not until he goes outside and there's like a, a simple guy who's washing the cars and w waxing a car that says, oh, I saw a woman. She went off on another truck in a different direction. And you start to think. Wow, okay. Who's in on this? Like, is it the, the diner guy who's kind of staring out and he is already got pissed off with Kurt with his pestering of look, I know he's gone into the ladies at the suggestion of a another guy [00:08:00] who says, you check the ladies and there's just this lady throwing up in there.

And they have a bit of a laugh over it.

Cris: Sorry, but between that, he actually goes and meets the police officer because he Yeah. Finds the truck driver,

Reegs: the trucker, but it's all

Cris: jt. He says JT drives after him, stops him. He

he? Yeah. And the guy, I dunno

who you are, mate. I dunno what's going on.

What are you talking

Dan: about? Isn't that just after the diner or because he goes back

Reegs: he goes back and forth a few times.

I think Chris is right. It happens first that he goes off looking for

Cris: anyway, but then he meets the police officer and the guy's like, look

Reegs: well first of all he, when he pulls over bar, 'cause like you say, he doesn't, he flashes him and he won't pull over.

Sidey: just completely blanks

Reegs: to make him stop and then he gaslights him like, he's like, well you were with my wife.

He's like, I, I don't know who you I've never seen you before. And it's kind of disconcerting isn't, it's really like

Sidey: Yeah. He's now panicked. He's now in proper panic mode because he is definitely the guy Yeah. Who had my wife in his truck

Reegs: he's starting to lose his

Sidey: Probably been dismembered and like buried somewhere.

Reegs: Exactly. And then wouldn't, you know it, thankfully a passing sheriff is coming there, [00:09:00] so he flags him down and like there's this scene where he kind of,

Sidey: he kind of sides. He looks through the truck, doesn't he? The police, yeah. Officer. And then kind of like takes the local guy's side,

Reegs: Well, he does a pretty thorough job though.

He looks

Sidey: there's no evidence of a

Reegs: he, and he says to him, there's no ev, there's no signs of a struggle and there's no, you know, there's no evidence or anything. So kind of what can I do? But he does say, I believe you. It probably wasn't this trucker. Go down to the police station and report it to my deputy.

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: he's a good man. He'll check it out. And, and so, he goes back to the diner. He spots the

Reegs: this is where he sees the

Dan: Yeah.

Who tells him, well, look, I heard he's going down in this direction.

And

Reegs: and

he says to him, this is 'cause he says to him as well, don't get the police involved. There all in on it too.

Dan: That's right. Yeah. And it, it just kind of raises the conspiracy levels and he heads down to an old abandoned mine or something

Reegs: like

Dan: that, isn't it? He has to go through a road that is being under construction and eventually [00:10:00] gets.

Shot at and he needs to

Sidey: the guy from the first

Dan: Car, yeah. So the guy from the first car. And you start to realize, wow, there's, there's a few of

Sidey: It's a gang, it's an organized kind of

Reegs: They have a pretty cool chase here through like it's two cars going through the sort of

Cris: Yeah, I never knew that Jeep Turro can float. That's, that's

Reegs: well it's really sticks on the lo on the roads and then he like.

Pushes it off the edge of a cliff, basically it drives down

Dan: it's off road.

Sidey: It's

getting away like it's floating.

Dan: Well, he, he takes, he takes a few shots at him.

Reegs: Did you notice Kurt Russell, he did quite a lot of the swimming scenes here, and he, did you notice he swims in a slightly strange way?

Cris: Yeah. Do you know why?

Reegs: No. Oh God. You can see he's got no arms or something.

Cris: No, no. They, no, he was wearing the inflatable thing, but under his

Reegs: of

course. Yeah.

Cris: So,

when

you, when you have that much, what buoyancy around you, how are you gonna swim?

Sidey: They're not allowed to let him drown.

Reegs: I thought he just was being a Hmong, but no, I, I thought it'd be like, you know, those people [00:11:00] who can't ride a bike when

Cris: No, it, I think that's the reason why, because he had a, what do you call it, A life jacket underneath his shirt.

Sidey: Is this where he is, is sort of. Gets out of the water and then is just like smashed over a shovel or something. Yeah. And

Reegs: knocked out. And then when he comes to

Sidey: get the full reveal of how

Dan: he's in the

Reegs: it is Billy the idiot's

Dan: he realize he is not such an idiot.

Cris: who's also got great hair.

Reegs: amazing hair. He takes off his, that's the reveal of I'm not a retard. No, hang on. You can't say that

I'm not, a, I'm not a mentally,

Dan: I'm not a

retired.

Reegs: haven't got a disability. So that's the reveal. Take your hat

Sidey: I've got cool hair just spring down. So it turns out this is a thing that they do.

It's an organized thing. They'll just pick on out of towners or whomever and steal from them and probably kill them.

Reegs: Well, they're basically threatening to kill him there, but his wife has cooked up. Basically, she saved their bacon by promising them some money, and there's been this thing about donuts.

They'd had a joke

Dan: You even see it just before he

Sidey: It goes into the water.

Dan: out the water.[00:12:00]

Reegs: Just to remind the viewers, remember this that happened,

Dan: 90,000 donuts or $90,000, what would you have? It's like their incar conversation.

Reegs: The wife has promised the gang a specific sum of money,

Cris: that he's the donut

Reegs: He's the donut. King gives the thing away. He's like, oh yeah, $90,000. I'll get it

Dan: you. It, it was good that scene because she, he says, look, I've got a number and unless you come out with this exact same fucking number, you are dead. It's the only reason you're not dead He ain't no donut king. He goes $90,000, 90,000 white boom. So then he sent into town to go and get $90,000 wired to him.

which he doesn't have. And he's then got this problem. He's go, he still doesn't really know who's, who's in on this. They seem to have people everywhere and in the bank, he's trying to get word over to the teller, but another guy comes and sits and he just looks like a, a mother trucker as well, doesn't [00:13:00] he?

And,

Sidey: yeah, he is shitting himself.

Dan: he's shitting south. He's shitting himself.

Sidey: how much can you advance me on my credit card? He's like, $500. So, you know. How's he gonna get outta this one?

Reegs: Yeah, it's good because that guy in the background, they, the movie never makes it clear whether he is in on it. It's all just, he's really paranoid and he, and he doesn't really like look at the camera or anything.

Like, he's not really over

Sidey: but he's been told the background. We'll be watching you. We'll have people watching you. So he is like shitting himself. You know, his wife and probably his life is on the line here.

Dan: But he manages to get a few of the bands that go around money when the teller has to get

Reegs: a letter opener as well, which is how many times recently Now in movies, have we seen people pocket letter openers to

Dan: Yeah. Useful tools to have. And so he goes to meet the original badass guy who turns up in a truck with a bag of brown, a brown paper bag with money in it. And he's got to try and pass

Reegs: Yeah. So Earl the cowboy from the beginning and he tapes up Kurt Russell's arms and gets him in the truck, doesn't he? [00:14:00] And as they're driving along, he makes it pretty clear that it doesn't really fucking matter.

We're gonna kill you both anyway. Yeah. And then he discovers that the money is,

he's

Dan: his dollar

Sidey: as he's already got the letter open out and he is got his arms tied behind him and he is cutting away at the duct tapes, try and get free.

And it's a race between doing that 'cause the guy starts to twig that. It's just a load of wands. Yeah. With a 10 or something, either side of it to make it look like a

Dan: Importantly, he has already radioed through and said, it's come through though. We've got the money.

Reegs: We've I I really love this next bit

Sidey: Just as he realizes it's, it's not the right amount of money. He stabs him with the.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Not in the shoulder or the neck, or I think

Reegs: I think it's a shoulder, isn't it?

Sidey: Yeah.

And they have a bit of a, a ding-dong whilst their car's sort of going all over the place on the road.

Reegs: Well then next minute after Kurt has overpowered him, he's duct taping him to the, the passenger seat, round the neck. And then he's basically torturing him for information, driving really fast, then breaking, so it's choking him.

I enjoyed this

Dan: that's until the copper comes along again.

Sidey: but

the copper sees him and it's like, what [00:15:00] the fuck? And

Dan: and Kurt plays the, you know, The, the same kind of

Reegs: when he comes out with a gun. And he's lucky he's not gunned down straight

Sidey: And this and this economy, he'd have

Reegs: been, he'd have been gone. Yeah. So he puts it down.

Obviously he's quite ranty and shouty because of what's been happening to him. And the copper who's not in on it, doesn't really know what's going on, but has to control the

Dan: but Kurt

hasn't done a great job of the duct tape and the guy's got free and got another gun.

And when he opens the car, he opens fire on the copper, shoots him, Kurt jumps, he's had to throw his gun down the hill. And when he sees the copper gets shot, he runs after that gun. But he's. He's like shooting fish in a barrel. He is just down the hill. The guy's squared up to him and he goes, mother,

Sidey: Stupid motherfucker, something like that.

Dan: But the, the

Reegs: cost him his life saying that

Dan: got one last breath in him and manages to, to shoot the bad guy.

Sidey: So no one's seeing the good, bad, and the ugly.

Dan: And then

Sidey: got time to

Cris: a

Sidey: just shoot.

Dan: [00:16:00] And then Kurt just leaves the copper. Like without any medical assistance who's

Sidey: the guy

Reegs: does radio it in officer

Dan: radios well, the, the cop is already radioing it.

He is going

Sidey: He just kind of pats in my head says, you'll be alright. Yeah, fuck.

Dan: He, clearly wouldn't be, if he could just help him a little bit, then he is got much better chance of, of surviving. I know that time is of the essence, et cetera, but really just. Patching 'em up. Just holding them there, putting

Reegs: the ticking

Dan: Basic CPR though,

Sidey: the

Reegs: I know. Yeah. He didn't do,

Dan: basic CPR could have saved that copper. I'm, I'm sure he didn't make it. 'cause he was already, I

Sidey: I assumed he was gonna die. He looked like he was on his way out.

Reegs: But the ticking clock element, the reason he has to leave this, this poor

Sidey: well you see JT pull up at his gaff and he is like henpeck by his wife.

Reegs: no, it's, it's because the Texaco, he knew that Earl was meeting JT at the

Sidey: right

Reegs: station.

So he goes down there and he spots him and overhears his phone call.

Sidey: That's right.

Reegs: And he knows that he's going back to his home place. He's gonna meet up with the rest of the gang, and [00:17:00] Amy is gonna So, Kurt, this was an amazing sequence, like Spider-Man's his way onto the underside of the truck.

And you get the little variation on, you know, how like any, anything outlandish happens and they usually have a drunk guy sees it and then he like, looks at the bottle afterwards, like, whoa, I can't believe this outlandish

Dan: got a kid on

Reegs: this time. It's the kid. Yeah. He's, whoa, I can't believe Kurt Russell.

Nobody's gonna

Dan: it. The the kid in the back of the car that, that can, can see him. And

Reegs: so yeah, he clings onto this thing for like, I assumed about 15 weeks or whatever, just clinging on

Cris: continuously

Dan: Well,

he he gets, he gets into like a little place between the cabin and the lorry bit, doesn't he?

And he, it goes nighttime. It's just as well, first of all, I was thinking, why the hell is he doing that? But then you realize. Dude's driving all night, you know, that's why he's doing that. And he gets, and you realize that Red is actually a, a loving father and

Sidey: It just gets a load of shit from his wife. As soon as he gets in, she's like, what are you doing here? Well, you should be back on Monday. And he's like, well, I'm back early. And [00:18:00] she's like, nah, I've got, and his cousin, his his sorry, his son is called

Reegs: De.

Sidey: Deke Dee. I was like, what fucking name is that?

Reegs: heard that But it's weird now because it becomes a home invasion movie from their perspective, essentially.

Because you know, he's now Red Bar is the family man with his wife and son there, and the ranting Kurt Russell turns up with

Sidey: fire they have also put Amy

Reegs: Yeah. But that's

Sidey: into the freezer in

Reegs: Details. Details

Sidey: dungeon

Dan: and also admitted to another murder.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: But when

Sidey: they

leave the, he's spying on them or when she's seen him through a crack and recognizes his eyes and like, okay, would I recognize him

Reegs: My wife's eye from about, from about a good what? How, how? Six, eight meters away.

Cris: No, it's 20

Sidey: than that. yeah.

20 Anyway, when they, so they bundle her into the, the like dungeon thing where they put people, I guess before they're about to execute them, and after they've gone, he.

Goes and he is looking around and you see all the trophies of other, the

Reegs: number plates

Sidey: Other people that have been offed and [00:19:00] and killed, there's a fucking shit out of them.

Reegs: Yeah. And there is actually quite a sinister bit halfway through in the movie where they're creating real statistics, talking about the a hundred thousand people go missing, reported missing, just nothing. You know, nobody ever knows what happens to them in America each year.

And I'm sure that's a lot more now, probably. So yeah.

Cris: And then he goes into the house while they're having dinner. Yeah. The kids playing Quake or Duke Newcomb or something.

Reegs: It was Doom. was it,

Cris: Doom. Was it? Was it Doom? I can't remember

Reegs: It was one of those, yeah.

Cris: One of the early iterations of a shoot

Dan: And, and, it, it ends up where he's got guns on red, but then Deke, the, the kid's got a gun on him.

Sidey: He's been trained by his old man.

Dan: and he's being told he's, yeah, he's being told to pull the trigger, but

Sidey: I was hoping they were gonna execute the

Dan: Yeah. Well, he, he's a kid and he kind of gets just knocked to the moment he's about to pull the, the trigger, which shoots one of

Yeah. One, one of the other guys that's

Reegs: it's actually the, the mum who shall shoot him at the end, even though the [00:20:00] father's trying to apply all the pressure, squeeze the trigger, sir, squeeze

Dan: Yeah. Well, she's,

Reegs: the one who shouts, shoot him.

Dan: you know, probably at this stage

Reegs: terrified,

Dan: terrified of a stranger in the house. But I'm

Sidey: I'm assuming she's not in

Dan: No,

Reegs: think she is,

Sidey: The robberies and the murders.

Dan: No, I don't think she knows anything about it really. But she's one of those that won't ask any questions either. And it all ends up back in the barn where he makes them open up the, the kind of cellar dungeon trap door.

Go down,

Sidey: Oh, no, she's definitely not. 'cause she sees the,

Dan: and then she sees the girl in there and she's like, Kurt's, right?

And she's like, yeah, what the f? And Kurt's got no time for anyone. He doesn't trust anyone at this stage, but. Dan, or is it Danny? The Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. He's got away during the commotion and he's running wild out there with a gun. But the rest of 'em all trapped downstairs. And so it's a, it is a getaway.

Now. We, we are looking [00:21:00] at getting out the house of horrors, aren't we?

Sidey: They've

gotta go and find the keys. They do one

Reegs: a pickup, they get, they're in a caravan to get the keys, and then red just comes outta nowhere in his fucking juggernaut and just drives through it.

Yeah. And then they get away in the pickup and there's a final scene. Billy in the red Corvette goes down pretty quickly. He's sort of nudged

Dan: Oh, they're speeding along the highway now, aren't they? Three. Three of them after

Him in

and his wife in

Reegs: fat guy with the white beard, he ends up getting the, the trailer comes off the back of the lorry and it jackknifes across the road and he fucking plows

Dan: to it down.

Reegs: and it's just red left and he's like. Gunning along, pushing the truck and it comes near a bridge. Don't needs like trying to push them right to the edge.

Sidey: Yeah. Trying push them over overboard.

Reegs: And during this crushing sequence, Amy will end up with her leg pinned. Yeah. So she's just uselessly squawking for the rest of the movie while

Dan: well, Kurt and Brita having a fight hanging on to [00:22:00] like wing mirrors because the.

The cabin of the, the lorry has gone over the bridge. It's tipped over the

Reegs: It, the whole truck is hanging essentially by the back wheels on a single steel struck.

Sidey: yeah.

Reegs: Basically completely vertical

Dan: They build those struts strong.

Reegs: And they have a fight for about three and a half minutes. I was looking at JT Wal.

I was thinking that guy would be dead after five seconds.

Dan: Yeah, well they, he's got a chain he's about to whip cur and he does it a couple of times, but. Ca catches the chain. Gives it a

Reegs: Mm-hmm. Yank, he yanks him. He pulls him off. Yeah. He yanks

Dan: that chain. He pulls him off. He crashes down to the bottom dead. He is absolutely crushed

Sidey: There's no way you could survive that

Dan: There's no way

Sidey: a million.

Dan: could. But let's wait for because.

Manages to,

Sidey: it's a race against time for him. He's

Dan: back up, free his wife. And as they look down after their emotional hug and, she sees that he's still. There.

Sidey: he, [00:23:00] he, his head looks around and looks at him and she just takes a hand break off. I see her and it just, the biggest overkill in any movie ever.

Yeah. The whole jug just fucking lands on his head.

Dan: It, it lands on him. I assumed because he did say at one point oh, she's got lovely hair upstairs and downstairs, and you think, oh, he's, they've They've raped her as well, and she's kind of broken and the,

Sidey: my innate sexism is like, she wouldn't know where the hand brick was on that

Dan: but she did. And, and it was,

Reegs: it's pretty much crushing death. Yeah. And it's like, there's virtually like five seconds left of the movie at

Sidey: that. We don't see him in a body bag though.

Dan: We zoom

Reegs: you're saying he could come back? He

Sidey: survived. The first one is what's his say?

Cris: You never know.

Dan: might have, he might have broke out.

Reegs: We sort of end with Kurt gently cradling his wife. Yeah. Gently cradling his hair

Sidey: on the bridge. and,

Reegs: And then we sort

Dan: and that's it. We we're talking about an hour and a half all in.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: You can actually watch this film on YouTube, which[00:24:00]

where I, you should

Reegs: though? I dunno that you should.

you can, you can also rent it or stream it

Dan: You

Cris: you mean you

Dan: that, but, well, it's, it's on there.

Cris: there?

Reegs: I don't Yeah, but it's not, is it an official?

Dan: Probably not. I mean, it's, it's a bit YouTube, you know,

Cris: well, after so many years, you know how it is After so many years, there's films that if they don't have the license for whatever,

Sidey: anyway.

What a ride.

Cris: by Dino Des? Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's, it could be one of them that ex the license expired.

Sidey: And Did you see who one of the producers was

Bob KO's wife.

Oh, was it? Yeah.

Dan: that Mary Oden Coke. what's her name?

Sidey: I think it was Naomi, but, I dunno. But I saw the name Odenkirk and I thought it must be, and I looked it up and it was his

Dan: quite Wow.

Okay. Right in in the

Sidey: Yeah.

Wow. What a stat.

The

Dan: movie

Reegs: this was an hour and a half and very solid meat and potatoes action thrill. Like really great performances

So Good Walsh and from Kurt Russell in a slightly different performance. It's so lean. There's barely a story there.

Like, you [00:25:00] know, like there's nothing for them as a couple.

You know, there's like

Dan: No. Well, there's, they're not in it. They're writing it at, at the beginning and then for like three minutes at the end really? Or five minutes at the end. A couple of emotional hugs when they. Get reunited and when it's all over.

But other than that, they haven't got time to really do shit other than just go through the horror of the moment because it's just go, go, go. Yeah.

Reegs: Because it is pretty relentless as

Sidey: well. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: that hour

Sidey: Did you see how much it cost to make? No

have a guess?

Reegs: 10 million pounds,

Dan: I would

say.

Sidey: No.

We are bringing dollars here,

Dan: I

Reegs: Yeah. Well that's $20 million.

Dan: I would say

Cris: what? 2 million?

Dan: 5 million,

Sidey: 36 million. I thought 36. How?

Reegs: a lot of stunts. There was a lot of

Sidey: stunt. I thought 30 of that must have gone to Kurt and his hair team.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. Well,

Sidey: and it

Dan: 28 on hair

Sidey: it made 50.

Dan: Okay.

Cris: Yeah. That, would that be a success?

Dan: that's

Sidey: I think it probably, probably a [00:26:00] little bit of a success. Also, I like this. Did you see the actor's name who played Billy?

Reegs: Yeah, it's Simon. It's something newsworthy

Sidey: jack nose worthy, which I liked that name.

Yeah. Being a proud

Dan: newsworthy. Yeah.

Sidey: I think it's really good. Really good. I enjoyed it

Reegs: It is really good. Yeah. And considering the director is such, like a workmanlike guy, did U 5 7 1 and some other art of trash like oh, surrogates. The Bruce Willis surrogate thing. So

Dan: I remember this first time round. I think we rented it on video.

Sidey: Nice.

Dan: it was

just, you know, fast paced kind of, you've got around that time, maybe the fugitive or you know, that kind of,

Sidey: Yeah. All those great nineties

Dan: great

Reegs: nineties. Those are, some of those are a bit more, like longer and more complicated. This is such a stripped down thriller, very simple premise, like gets on with every scene really. Yeah. I really, actually,

Sidey: one.

What do you think, Chris?

Cris: Yeah, I dunno. It was all [00:27:00] right. It's just, I dunno, it's just

Sidey: too long.

Cris: No, it wasn't too long. It was just a few things that were, I was just like,

surely you would've seen that, you know, when she gets into the car with Oh, and then, oh, you sure she didn't leave you?

Dan: I, I thought he

Cris: I dunno. I

Dan: thought they played that part quite well because he was, he'd teased him. Oh, you know, he offered the lift. They didn't want it. He was driving away. They had to actually flag him down for the lift.

Sidey: lift. It's a hard no.

Cris: Yeah. I dunno. I

Reegs: a bit different. I mean, even then it probably seemed weird. Really? But you accept it for the plot because otherwise there is no movie. But now you wouldn't write it like that, but you look at it in the Yeah,

in

Cris: look, it was, it wasn't, it wasn't bad. It was, I, I also, I have to say with Kurt Russell. I thought he just looked normally he's just the coolest.

Ca cat alive.

This one, he was a bit like a, and then all of a sudden he turns into Rambo at the end with a gun and trying to be all cool.

Sidey: I think it was him playing against type, but his

Reegs: that's what I liked. It's a bit [00:28:00] of range.

Dan: he was

office worker,

Reegs: and nervous in

Dan: worker, Kurt. Wasn't he Very unsure of himself. He didn't, he'd never

Sidey: still never a hundred percent buy him as like, office working case, still, like, he looks too

Dan: He, he

Cris: But anyway, as, as a, as a whole film, considering that it was 90 minutes and it was like you say, a a bit of an easy watch and it just kind of breezes through, you know what's gonna happen, you know, he's gonna kill everyone. You know, he is he's gonna survive at the end.

She maybe, or maybe not, but generally she will. You kind of know what's happening. I was like, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: I love it when a movie like this just goes, they dropped a truck on the, the end. Do you know what I mean? That's like, that's how it is.

Just like there's no more, there's literally nothing

Dan: else. Pan out,

Sidey: I wanted it to be like fatal attraction when everything goes completely back to normal at the end.

Like there's no trauma, nothing. Whereas, and this should be like horrifically

Reegs: scarred for life. She's been

Sidey: Their relationship would completely fail. Yeah.

Dan: even zoom out and you could see like the, the blue. Red lights kind of coming in. You know, it was, there was none of that. He just left them there.

Reegs: Yeah. On the bridge. [00:29:00] Him with his hair.

Sidey: strong hair recommends.

Reegs: strong hair.

Cris: Strong.