ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

gwnightscream Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Ray Wise and Marshall Bell star in this 1994 action-comedy. This takes place in L.A. and Sheen (Two and a Half Men) plays Jack Hammond, an escaped convict who takes young woman, Natalie Voss (Swanson) as a hostage. Soon, they're in a dangerous, highway pursuit by police and media, but get to know each other in the process. Wise (Robocop) plays Natalie's wealthy father, Dalton Voss and Bell (Twins) plays Jack's lawyer, Ari Josephson. Cary Elwes (Hot Shots!) and Josh Mostel (Billy Madison) also appear. This is a good 90's flick that pokes fun at "on the run" type flicks with a great cast and Sheen & Swanson have good chemistry. I recommend this.

Sandcooler If you're a fan of completely brainless action, Adam Rifkin is your kind of guy. He could be the most brainless director on the face of the planet, and I for one applaud him for that reason. Don't bother him with details like plot or coherence, he's really more of a "let's randomly have corpses crash into a windshield" type of guy. This movie is pretty much "Speed" with a sense of humour, it's a lot of fun and the lack of any real creative story lines is very well-concealed. Furthermore, Charlie Sheen is actually pretty good in it. He genuinely comes of as a very sympathetic and misunderstood protagonist, which is pretty impressive when you're actually Charlie freakin' Sheen. The ending is also very satisfying, it's predictable but in an excellent way. One last thing: Anthony Kiedis and Flea are in this too, which is just fascinatingly bizarre. Very enjoyable flick.

MetalGeek Current tabloid darling/"Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen and Kristy ("Buffy") Swanson topline this slight, but enjoyable action comedy from Adam Rifkin ("Detroit Rock City") about a likable small time thief named Jack (Sheen) whose plans to avoid prison by quietly escaping to Mexico go horribly wrong when he's cornered by police in a convenience store. He takes a girl (Swanson) hostage and escapes down the freeway with her in her brand spankin' new BMW. Little does he know that his hostage also happens to be the daughter of the richest man in California (Ray Wise of "RoboCop"), which naturally sparks a round-the-clock media frenzy of O.J. Simpson proportions (even though, oddly enough this film actually pre-dated the O.J. circus by several months!). Soon the BMW is being pursued down the highway by an armada of police, news vans, and TV helicopters as Jack tries to make it to the border. Along the way, he and his rich-girl hostage get to know each other and eventually bond (is it love, or merely Stockholm Syndrome?), while lots of cars crash, there's much pointed satire about law enforcement and media overkill, and finally there's a showdown at the border."The Chase" is certainly a product of its time (1994), with its pokes at TV news and its constant coverage of real-life high speed highway chases like these. L.A. anchorwoman Bree Walker and Cary Elwes make appearances as some of the newscasters and sharp eyed movie geeks will even recognize porno legend Ron Jeremy in a cameo as a TV cameraman. '90s alterna-rock star Henry Rollins is hysterical as a tightly wound jarhead cop in pursuit of Sheen, who has a camera crew from a "Cops" style reality show in his back seat when the pursuit begins. Flea and Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers also have a hilarious cameo as two Beavis and Butthead style redneck/stoners who join the chase in their Monster Truck hoping to get on TV and become heroes.Sheen and Swanson (who, it must be noted, was baked to absolute hottie perfection at this time!), as the felon and the hostage, do a nice job portraying the mismatched pair who fall for each other over time (though the love scene where they get it on while the car's in motion stretches the laws of realism more than a little bit) and fans of vehicular mayhem will get their share of high-speed driving stunts, crashing police cars and trucks, and the occasional highway explosion to keep them happy.It's certainly not one of the all time great action flicks, but "The Chase" is a fast, funny way to spend 90 minutes. Make sure you stay tuned till the end of the credits, where Sheen (in a clown suit -- that'll make sense when you see the movie) recites the famous "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" bit from "Apocalypse Now."

Pistolpete332010 How many times did we hear that Jackson "wished things were different?" Probably one too many times. We get it Jackson, life screwed you and the system is flawed, it must be since you got the blame for something you didn't do. With all that in mind, The Chase is still a light fun car chase movie, with enough action to hold you over.I remember awhile back watching this Charlie Sheen movie and liking it a lot for what it was. A fun little action flick that can provide great entertainment if you don't take it very seriously.In The Chase we are provided with some action as Jackson (Charlie Sheen) is speeding along the freeway. We got some typical type-casted characters in the two guys in the big green monster truck. You know, the ordinary, dumb, pot-smoking surfer like dudes, except with a little twist of being extremely patriotic to the point of stupidity. Maybe they aren't too patriotic, it could be that they just want television time, which is definitely apparent during the interview scene after the crash.All in all, The Chase has its moments. The scene where Jackson kidnapped Natalie Voss (A daughter of a billionaire man) is pretty hilarious merely because of its ridiculousness. The image Jackson gets before giving himself up of pulling out a gun on the many officers and getting shot down is hilarious in that sort of unintentional way. The stereotyping that cops are egocentric and power hungry is pretty funny and apparent in the final scene, and also during the part where one of the cops claims to "Be a street prophecy." Now with all the positives I've covered you would think I love the movie. Well, I do like it, for what it's worth. It certainly has little to work with. It's just a guy kidnapping a girl, and then the rest of the 80 minutes is him driving away from the cops on a freeway. There's a little comic relief, and some action here and there, but it's all the same and it just becomes a bit too much. It just becomes too repetitive, because those humorous moments and action sequenced parts are few and far between. I'm being repetitive by talking about it this long. In the end, it's a light, somewhat entertaining comedy. Charlie Sheen is the only thing memorable, and the only thing that really makes this movie watchable. 6/10