The Chase

1994
PG-13
1h 34m

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5.9/10

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Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson in The Chase (1994)

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Escaped convict Jack Hammond takes a woman hostage and sets off for the Mexican border with the police hot on his tail.Escaped convict Jack Hammond takes a woman hostage and sets off for the Mexican border with the police hot on his tail.Escaped convict Jack Hammond takes a woman hostage and sets off for the Mexican border with the police hot on his tail.

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Trivia
Accidentally shown at the Dublin Film Festival as part of a classics retrospective instead of the Marlon Brando movie of the same name.

Goofs
With just 10 miles to go to the Mexican border the daylight goes from bright sunlight to the dead of night. At the high-speed chase they were on, that distance would have been covered in far less than 10 minutes, far too quickly for the sun to completely set.

Quotes
Natalie Voss: You kidnapped me with a candy bar?
Jackson Davis Hammond: It makes a handy weapon in a pinch.

Crazy credits
After the end credits have finished, Charlie Sheen, in a clown suit sitting behind the steering wheel, recites the, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," speech from the movie Apocalypse Now. Charlie's father, Martin Sheen, was the star of the movie.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Angie/China Moon/Greedy/Sirens/The Chase (1994)

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Breakdown
Written by David James McKiven (as D.J. McKiven)/Ian Carmichael (as T. Carmichael)/Dot Allison (as D.E. Allison)
Performed by One Dove
Courtesy of FFRR
by arrangement with Polygram Special Products

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7/10

I can't help but like this movie

This actually was a pretty good farce really. I do agree that it was pretty cheezy full of stock characters and B-Movie acting, but c'mon! It was a send up of how the media blows everything up to something massive and how it sends everyone farther, feeding the media's fire in the process. What made this apt to me was that after seeing this movie, I watched O.J. take that mid-day drive down the highway with the LAPD right behind him. The movie got at least the media part right.

Also, it's fun to watch Henry Rollins play a cop (of all things) and Anthony Kiedis and Flea from The Red Hot Chilli Peppers as redneck hero wannabes. So long as you don't take this movie too seriously, it's pretty funny.

Also, watch right up to after the credits - Charlie's nod to his dad's role in "Apocalypse Now" is just hilarious.