Ah, the 1980s, when Mullets ruled and hair bands screeched like howler monkeys, and Hollywood produced schlock like this as fast as movie cameras could roll.
To say this was made on the cheap is an understatement.
It's sort of a PSA for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
We're missing half the story.
Who says that the baddie's car is called "The Skull Car?" It's not in the movie. That Skull Car attacks randomly? No, he just goes in for disproportionate revenge over petty actions (kinda like our "Hero" does). Is he insane? Well, maybe if the movie had bothered to give him even a single line of dialog, we might know that.
Instead we're just told that the black car driver is insane. Insane villains don't have motivations or back-stories.
1980s action heroes don't know the law about how citizen's arrests work.
Also, when are streets in LA ever that empty? Maybe in the 1920s?
The one thing that movies from the 1980s have that modern movies don't is that the cameras actually focus on the action (such as it is) so that you can see it clearly.
The end result is better than, say, any of the Halloween or Friday the 13th movies, but not by much.
To say this was made on the cheap is an understatement.
It's sort of a PSA for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
We're missing half the story.
Who says that the baddie's car is called "The Skull Car?" It's not in the movie. That Skull Car attacks randomly? No, he just goes in for disproportionate revenge over petty actions (kinda like our "Hero" does). Is he insane? Well, maybe if the movie had bothered to give him even a single line of dialog, we might know that.
Instead we're just told that the black car driver is insane. Insane villains don't have motivations or back-stories.
1980s action heroes don't know the law about how citizen's arrests work.
Also, when are streets in LA ever that empty? Maybe in the 1920s?
The one thing that movies from the 1980s have that modern movies don't is that the cameras actually focus on the action (such as it is) so that you can see it clearly.
The end result is better than, say, any of the Halloween or Friday the 13th movies, but not by much.