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D |
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| Story: |
D- |
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D+ |
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| Direction: |
F |
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| Visuals: |
C |
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Embarrassing to watch...
by E.B (movies profile)
Jul 1, 2006
Have you ever sat down, watched a movie, and come to the realization that you would be embarrassed to be caught watching it? Smokey and the Bandit III is one of those films. The steep downward slope of quality that started with Part II comes to the lowest point with Part III.
In all aspects, it seems like a Saturday-afternoon made for TV movie. Gone are Burt Reynolds and Sally Field. The Enos's make a wager with now-retired Sheriff Justice to take a shark-shaped advertisement from Point A to Point B. If he can, he gets $250 grand. If not, Justice surrenders his tin star forever.
It turns out that the Enos boys have to call in the Snowman to thwart Justice. Jerry Reed takes on the mantle of the Bandit and tries to stop him.
So, Snowman revs up his '82 Trans Am and heads out to get in Justice's way. Along the way he meets a wandering figure called Dusty Trails (who writes this stuff), who joins Snowman and his cause after only five minutes of meeting him.
Sound stupid? Well, it is. All in all, it's a pretty idiotic film with little memorable images or dialogue. The car chases aren't interesting, either (and I'm a BIG Knight Rider fan, to boot).
After all is said and done, both Bandit and Smokey chase off into the sunset, perhaps a setup for a fourth film which was thankfully never made. Now I have a question; why wouldn't Snowman and Justice agree to basically do nothing to one another and split the quarter-million between them? Enos has to pay up regardless of who wins.
Avoid this one, folks. Watch once, if you have to, but kindly hide it behind your DVD case and watch the original all over again. |
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