| Red Line (1996) Cast:Chad McQueen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Michael Madsen, Roxana Zal,Dom DeLuise,Corey Feldman One thing you can't accuse Red Line of is taking risks. Here is a movie that casts Corey Feldman and Michael Madsen as brothers (!) as well as casting the former as a hitman ! The story itself tells how McQueen gets involved with mobsters, and his attempt to rip them off, of course along the way there's some diamonds McQueen has gotten a hold of and ergo pits the mobsters against each other in this delightful groaner. This certainly the best made movie McQueen has ever starred in, although that's faint praise because this movie is still a pretty bad movie. The only fun here is watching Jan-Michael Vincent lay out the ham as the mobster, truly he gives the best performane of the movie and is actually quite entertaining to watch, infact Vincent being the typically wooden actor oozes more charisma in his toenails than the dull McQueen. Infact consider that after a car accident in which Jan-Michael broke his neck and has scars on his face acts with more energy then Chad McQueen. Infact so does Corey Feldman! Seriously you know your a terrible actor when you're outacted by Corey Feldman. Michael Madsen merely mails in his performance while everyone else just looks like a paycheck is dangled over off camera. Red Line is truly an awesomely bad movie, but for some reason it's strangely watchable. Mainly due to Jan-Michael Vincent. The key line of brillance this movie acheives when Jan-Michael says over the phone to McQueen that "I would at least have you buried, the other guy will just leave you there" as if this somehow less sinister. Not that it matters Red Line is plenty goofy, aside from being a grotesque guilty pleasure the movie is pretty bad by any other standard. Still I have to hand it to Vincent, had it not had him it would've been just another typical clunker starring a movie star's brat of a son, with him it's still a clunker but the movie manages to somehow make even less dramatic sense and becomes far more amusing. D.John Sjorgen |
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