Saturday 16 August 2014

49: Long Run Home (3.15)

1980; 46 minutes
Written by Len Jenkin; Produced by Robert Bennett Steinhauer & Jeff Freilich;
Directed by Nicholas Corea

An biker who is on the verge of disenchantment with his clan picks David up on the road.  The man has been having concerns about the group's use of firearms and is about to be tracked down by that group, after a tip-off leads the authorities to them.  An unrelated accident results in the biker breaking his arm, and so David tags along with him until he's able to ride his bike again.

Strained somewhat by the incessant jazzy score, this is nevertheless a reasonable tale about seeing things differently, being judged by others according to what you look like, and evolution of the self.  David helps the man achieve the latter as he is involved in the conflict between his former allies and the authorities who now want his help, while everyone else they come across tends to draw prejudgmental conclusions about the man essentially based on what's he's wearing.  Hulk's appearance here is pretty neat when, following a beating in a bar, he then uses the actual bar counter itself to cram the entire confused and panicked crowd to the other side of the room.  Later on he goes up against the bikers themselves of course.

Number of Fists: ***

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