Being a 'skip tracer' means Clint gets to have fun impersonating various types - a radio DJ, chauffeur, gold-jacketed prize giver in Reno and - most entertainingly - a redneck. Actually it's the redneck thing that does slightly let the film down, as there's a group of them that leer and laugh unconvincingly as their boss Michael Des Barres tries to act. Otherwise it's an entertaining road / chase movie with Clint, Bernadette Peters, her baby and $250,000 being pursued by her ex Timothy Carhart (an unconvincing speed freak). Clint's longtime stunt coordinator is the director, so the action scenes are fine, including Clint / double on top of a car that's driven through a plate glass window. (Funnily enough when Clint manages to nudge the pursuing baddies off the road in the finale, we are deprived of them crashing. Budget? There are seven sound editors.)
Eagle eyed Q spotted a young 'James' Carrey doing an Elvis impersonation and James Cromwell (from Six Feet Under) in the dark. It's in the acting you can tell Buddy is struggling.
Jack Green is on camera. (Bruce Surtees' last film for Clint was Pale Rider in 1985.) Joel Cox is now the lead editor.
With William Hickey, Geoffrey Lewis.
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