Review of Midnight Ride

Midnight Ride (1990)
6/10
enjoyable throwaway action thriller
7 October 2002
Mark Hammill definitely turns in one of his best performances in his career, playing a psychopath as he often does but he's live-action this time around and not animated. Don't mind that, he's still quite animated and often acts just as cartoony as "The Joker" or any number of his more famous animated characters.

Anyway, there's good chases and excitement, but at its heart this film really is just another low budget Italian B-movie with a 20 second cameo by a bored looking Robert Mitchum. Savina Gersack is in it, which usually isn't a good sign, but she's a good actress and looks good too. Dudikoff, on the other hand, is extremely boring as the hero and the whole way through I was rooting for the bad guy.

Lots of stupid stuff, a few explosions and surprisingly graphic gore scenes, but this has ended up being a forgotten film, much like THE MOSQUITO COAST or BREAKER MORANT.
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