This influential petrolhead classic stars O’Neal as a taciturn getaway driver (think Ryan Gosling in Drive) caught in a cat’n’mouse game with Bruce Dern’s crazy-eyed copper.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2022

This is a thoroughly watchable, hardboiled, thrillingly cynical and ruthless drama and Dern’s flinching, beta-male face – in contrast to O’Neal’s tough purity – is a joy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2022

While we can readily identify these characters, we can't identify with them simply because Hill never bothers to tell us what makes them tick.

| Aug 7, 2018

The closing chase -- two great Drivers in a final showdown -- had me on the edge of my seat for two good reasons: I was thrilled. And I couldn't wait to leave.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2018

A fair-to-middling auto-noir.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2017

You can almost smell rubber burning.

| May 28, 2008

A combination of brilliantly edited car chases and existential thriller which recalls the sombreness of Melville and the spareness of Leone.

| Jan 26, 2006

It is Awful Movie. It is Pretentious Movie. It is Silly Movie. It talks just like this.

| May 9, 2005

An audacious, skillful film noir by Walter Hill, so highly stylized that it's guaranteed to alienate 90 percent of its audience.

| Jan 1, 2000