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Final chase (the bit with the bumper cam) is a masterpiece!

posted 11 years ago by mickey123mouse123
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I must say, the final chase (the bit with the bumper cam) is a masterpiece!

It's really more like an homage to Getaway Stockholm series! I've never seen such a chase in a movie and I've seen most there is.

Regarding the rest of the movie, it barely deserves the rating it has been given. It could've been done really great, but was not. There are some moments in the movie that's ok, but most of it is really, really bad.

If you don't remember the final chase I'm talking about, watch it again, since it's really amazing!

[–] milton_pk 11 years ago

Just saw it a short while ago and I totally agree. Probably the only thing that I'll remember from this movie a few months from now.

[–] klauke 11 years ago

eh i thought it was one of the less decent parts. this performance car with a 'professional' race car driver has a hard time keeping up with an amateur driven mercedes suv... and the cheap cgi vehicles made it look synthetic and tacky.

the CONCEPT was ok, but the execution of the scene was pretty poor.

[–] GSmith9072 11 years ago

There wasn't CGI from what I understand.

BUGS

[–] insanebasura 11 years ago

There wasn't CGI from what I understand.

I will not understand this to be the case with this specific scene.

You can't time stunts that well when it's so far into the take. There'd be a pretty sizable risk that their stunt drivers would be walking home on stretchers. If the camera car wrecked into one of those cars in the intersections, that'd be a pretty huge impact, right to the driver side.

I know what you're thinking. How the hell do you walk home on a stretcher anyway? But that's not important right now.

[–] Doc110894 11 years ago

It belongs in a better movie.

[–] Go_Blue_99 11 years ago

Definitely the only good scene in the movie.

[–] maxima128 10 years ago

I will not understand this to be the case with this specific scene. You can't time stunts that well when it's so far into the take.

There is no CGI in this movie. This was an awesome stunt. And by the way, multiple stunts can be staged into a single take. It would have taken a lot of preparation, timing, coordination, and practice. The stunt coordinators, stuntmen and everyone else involved would have been totally up for the challenge because that's how they earn their pay. Just because you and the rest of the CGI generation can't fathom how a stunt was pulled off or think it is too risky, it doesn't mean it can't be done.

You know, there was a time when CGI didn't exist. Car chases were exactly that. Go watch The French Connection and other action flicks from the 70's and 80's.