This had the potential to be a fair Sly action vehicle, but the writers (include Stallone here) had to bring in the kid and turn the story into a sloppy, cliched, family bonding film.
So we end up with the eminent Robert Loggia completely slumming it as the mean, irascible and extremely rich grandpa and have to put up with the bratty son Michael, who admittedly does look simply divine in that military school suit of his. (Military school? Seriously what were they thinking?) I do congratulate David Mendenhall however, for looking the part of an 11 or 12 year old. Apparently he was around 15 to 16 when the film was made, but really doesn't look like a teenager.
Ultimately, we get too many weirded out supporting characters, too many slow motion arm wrestle matches, arguably too many 80's soundtrack songs, too many melodramatic moments, too many Sly long faces and too little humour to lighten the soap opera quality of the drama being presented onscreen. Underwhelming to the extreme!
As an aside, another one of those movies, where the business person never seems to actually do any business. Here, Sly, a trucker, never seems to be carrying anything, anywhere to maintain his livelihood.
So we end up with the eminent Robert Loggia completely slumming it as the mean, irascible and extremely rich grandpa and have to put up with the bratty son Michael, who admittedly does look simply divine in that military school suit of his. (Military school? Seriously what were they thinking?) I do congratulate David Mendenhall however, for looking the part of an 11 or 12 year old. Apparently he was around 15 to 16 when the film was made, but really doesn't look like a teenager.
Ultimately, we get too many weirded out supporting characters, too many slow motion arm wrestle matches, arguably too many 80's soundtrack songs, too many melodramatic moments, too many Sly long faces and too little humour to lighten the soap opera quality of the drama being presented onscreen. Underwhelming to the extreme!
As an aside, another one of those movies, where the business person never seems to actually do any business. Here, Sly, a trucker, never seems to be carrying anything, anywhere to maintain his livelihood.