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Exit Speed (2008) is an action adventure that starts out with some genuine promise, but soon crashes into a wall, as the situation that dominates the vast majority of the movie, is too illogical and unrealistic to stand up under any kind of critical examination.



Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Jane Doe) and Fred Ward (Remo Williams), are the most well-known among the cast of this Sabbatical Pictures production. It's Christmas eve, and Archibald Sparks (Ward), a military policeman, is on the trail of Merideth Cole (Julie Mond), an army deserter who is aboard a bus travelling west across Texas. Out on the open road, the bus encounters a motorcycle gang, and gets involved in an incident where people are killed. Trying to escape the gang, the bus heads off the highway, and crashes at a rundown abandoned junkyard. The passengers take refuge behind wrecked cars, and piles of junk, while the motorcycle gang surrounds the group.



Maudie (Thompson), Sam (Desmond Harrington), "Coach" (Gregory Jbara), and Annabel (Alice Greczyn) are among the travelers suddenly in a life and death situation. There is no cell phone coverage, so the trapped passengers can't call for help. The bikers, supposedly send for reinforcements, and are content to wait around and trip on meth. The survivors, who just have a single pistol, somehow manage to hold off the entire armed gang, for the rest of the day.



After sunset, things get busy. Annabel has skills as an archer. After recovering her bow and arrows from the bus, she provides deadly cover fire, while Maudine makes a break to get help. Maudine soon develops a killer instinct, and finds the bikers nest (presumably where the reinforcements were supposedly to have come from?), and Sparks, who is still on Merideth's trail. Rather than trying to call the police, they fearlessly decide to take on the bikers themselves.



The biker gang never say a word to the passengers, throughout the entire movie. The idea may be to present them as an unspeaking, mysterious menace, but they mostly come off as mindless idiots. Perhaps they too high to do anything. The gang are almost completely inept, although they occasionally do manage to shoot straight, and take out a passenger who carelessly exposes themselves to fire.



Director Scott Ziehl's film does have decent production values. Unfortunately most of what happens is like a bad cartoon. The cast does what they can, but there are major issues with the screenplay. Meredith takes a bullet in the gut, which turns into only a "flesh wound". The metal sides of the bus appear to be bulletproof. The survivors spend most of their time arguing, accomplishing next to nothing. That anyone survives, is quite remarkable. Killing people is apparently not that big a thing, as at the conclusion, the passengers are all free to enjoy a wonderful Christmas Day.
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