The film starts off well enough with Brian Keith being all macho and shit. Then the set up is introduced and it's three trucks and all three trucks have to make it. Well fuck, right there you can pretty much bet that all three trucks are gonna make it. Next off, Brian picks five complete dorks for his team. One of them is even a race car driver with a lead foot! So finally they take off and these idiots are driving on the open road! What the fuck? There's normal cars all around and all these champions have is a warning sign and some flags. Anyway, they eventually get off onto some desert roads and the hot shot driver is driving balls out! You can see the trucks bouncing all over the joint, mud splashing, they're banging into shit and hauling ass. Plus, they're always crowded up together just waiting to blow each other up. And speaking of bad ideas, at one point a guy sees that an concentrated acid tank is leaking out of a loose cap. So what does this genius do? Does he put on some badass gloves/protective clothing and use a pair of pliers? Ohhhh no, this brain surgeon just grabs the cap with his bare hand and of course burns his hand off. Brilliant! Multiple other totally preventable injuries happen, but it's all silly. There's even a runaway bus full of children! Oh brother.
I really wanted to like VIOLENT ROAD, but the story was garbage. Absolutely zero tension and nearly all of their troubles were caused by their own negligence. The acting was fine for what it was, but the budget was too low and the story was shit. Skip it and rewatch THE WAGES OF FEAR again instead.
Robert Williams. He has 331 credits on IMDb over the course of 40 years.
