I'm too hard on Corey Haim, and its
movies like Fast Getaway 2 that remind me of that. I'd seen this movie years
back on VHS (in fact, I think I might actually own it on VHS somewhere - too
hard to keep up these days) and it's not a movie that I would say I'm crazy
about, but I did really like it and Id gladly show it to other Haim fans. So
when it came out here on budget priced DVD I was like "SCORE!" and picked it up
right away. I also bought Dream a little Dream 2 for $2.00 on DVD, but that's a
whole other review.
Ok, first off I'm going to say that this movie is a sequel and I have zero
knowledge of Fast Getaway, so I am going to write the review as such. I probably
should watch it, but it would be kind of hard seeing as I really like Sarah
Buxton and I would feel like Corey is betraying her by having another love
interest in the first one. A little backwards yes, but I would know that the
whole romantic interest angle between them would be totally redundant by the
sequel, so therefore pointless.
Nelson Potter is a immature womanising bank robber - or so it would seem when we
are treated to a long scene at the beginning of the film where Nelson takes
Patrice (Buxton) hostage after robbing the bank. We soon learn that Patrice
knows Nelson and the two are in cahoots (yes! 10 points for using the word
cahoots in everyday language). What we don't yet know is that the pair run a
security company and staged the robbery in order to identify the holes in the
banks security system to present to the people who hired them. I'm sure the
police would love knowing that their resources were tied up for the sake of a
security exercise they had no idea about.
It's obvious from the very beginning that Patrice has the hots for Nelson - her
distaste at his womanising and constant bitching at his immaturity are a dead
giveaway (and she calls him immature!). It isn't long before Patrice decides to
quit. Not because she can't stand his lack of responsibility, but because she
can't bear to be around to listen to him call other girls "Pookie" on the phone
anymore. Nelson is called out on business, but seeing as she just quit, she
decides to hang about and have a swim in his pool. As you do.
Nelson arrives at the bank to discover that the very same holes he and Patrice
identified in the banks security have been exploited and the bank robbed. Being
an ex bank-robber things don't look rosy for him. Strangely enough though, no
money is missing. After he obtains some surveillance photos and tyre tracks, he
goes to see his Dad Sam in prison who happens to be an expert on tyres. He
identifies a shapely woman in one of the surveillance photos to be Lily - his ex
girlfriend and bank-robbing partner.
Meanwhile back at Nelsons place, Patrice is cornered and pawed by bad guy cop
Ridley who believes that Nelson is behind the robberies, so that would explain
why its okay to grope Nelson's business partner. He has had it in for Nelson
ever since his father cut a deal with the DA to keep him out of prison. Ridley
is unaware that his attack on Patrice is caught on Nelsons security cameras.
Ridley is a smarmy (another 10 points) bastard who really confuses the issue in
this movie. Bank robbers = bad guys. Cop = Also bad guy. Excuse me while my
brain explodes.
That night Lily and her partner break in to Nelsons house to steal an item of
his to leave at their next crime scene framing him perfectly. When Nelson comes
home drunk, Lily kicks the crap out of him and gets away with his pocket knife.
Before too long, the cops are after Nelson and he's on the run. Ridley attempts
to kill Nelson for "resisting arrest" after he finds him watching his
surveillance footage to see who broke into his house and took his knife. Instead
he sees Ridley trying to forcefully remove Patrice's clothes...or something
along those lines. Nelson has just decided he has the hots for Patrice, so he's
noticeably pissed. Nelson gets away from Ridley's attempts to shoot him without
reason (is he so quick to forget the cameras?), but not without first getting in
a few good shots for Patrice.
Sam hears about his sons supposed crimes on the news and knows Nelson has been
set up. He "escapes" from his minimum security prison in order to help him out
by walking out the gate. He wont be in any trouble as long as he makes it back
by morning roll call. Before long he runs into Patrice and they find Nelson in
drag at a laundromat. Nelson and his father work out that Lily is replacing the
money in the vaults with counterfeit notes, thus making it look like no money is
missing at all.
Unfortunately they end up right where Lily wants them and she plans to kill them
and make it look like they messed up their latest bank job. Ridley is also hot
on their trail, Sam only has a few hours to get back to prison and its likely
none of them will escape with their lives. It's going to take some quick
thinking on the part of Nelson and Patrice to get out of this one.
Forgive the cheesy segue, but I really didn't want to give away the ending
although you all know its going to be predictably fluffy. Corey Haim was still
in his semi cute phase at this point in time so he's a lot more watchable than
he is in some of his later stuff. Sarah Buxton is very pretty, but she has this
weird sort of attitude about her - the same as she had in Rock and Roll High
School Forever (coincidentally with Feldman). I know this has been written in
every review in the world for this movie, but Leo Rossi and Corey Haim have
excellent chemistry and are totally believable as father and son. Other than
that, Fast Getaway 2 is pretty much your average Action/Adventure with romantic
undertones. It's great if you're like me and love the ham (I did mean ham, not
Haim), plus its good for Corey fans too.
|
|
Year:
1994
