(Flash Review)Thin on story, heavy on Duke Boys style chases in some southern state. Fonda's character has dreams of becoming a NASCAR racer and he has a mechanic friend both in need of cash to build a car together. So these two idiots, rob a store to get money to build their car. At some point, a gal Fonda shagged, comes along for the ride as she was mad he thought of her as a one night stand. The characters aren't annoying and sprinkle of some light humor amongst the several long chase and crash scenes. High quality car stunts with no CGI and without speeding up the footage, led to fun excitement, lots of smashing and even a brave helicopter pilot getting in the mix. Will they escape to pursue their dreams or will they get outwitted by some pure southern cops? Not a good movie overall but is a very good movie early in the car chase genre.

but it more than makes up for that in sweet road action. One car chase leads to another, bridges are jumped, and there's even a low-flying helicopter chase. And as much as I like Adam Roarke's pensive angst in this movie, the real one to watch out for is Vic Morrow. For the crime that Fonda and Roarke committed (unarmed theft), you've gotta wonder why Morrow would come down on them as hard as he did. His big move in the end (although brilliant) was overly vindictive. What makes this hard- line lawman tick? And that ending's a true shocker that hits me right where I live.But in the end, this movie's a classic. The chases are fun, the stunts are cool, and it's just an awesome ride.And that is one righteous Charger. 7.5/10

I wasn't able to catch all of this but I saw enough. Did they still have drive-in movies in 1972? I don't remember. If they existed, they must have been one of the first venues in which this movie was shown.Briefly, Peter Fonda is a race car driver manqué who is mostly busy laughing his way through life. He and his taciturn mechanic, Adam Roarke, rob a store and zip away in their souped-up Dodge Charger with the intention of breaking into the NASCAR circuit. Along for the ride is the toothsome Susan George, whose sun-tanned midriff is nothing less than astonishing. A pleasing desktop wallpaper might consist of nothing more than a close up of her belly button. She's wide eyed. And those teeth -- she could eat a lobster, shell and all.There are endless scenes of this lime-green hot rod speeding down the back roads between groves of walnut trees. It's impressively scenic, really. And Fonda puts the pedal to the metal even when he doesn't have to. Every time the car is set in motion it burns rubber. I'm telling you, there's real power under this baby's big forty-foot hood.Sometimes in hot pursuit is an eager deputy who has had his squad car souped up, but he's in the picture only to provide more thrills than a single speeding automobile can generate. The deputy zooms along at warp speed and tries to bump the Dodge off the road, muttering to himself -- "Eat this for LUNCH, you scum bag!" Things like that. Also in pursuit from the air is the sheriff in charge of the case, the sour puss Vic Morrow with his evil features and pursed lips.In the end, although Fonda, Roarke, and George have outrun and outwitted the law, they learn their lesson. The lesson is, "Never take your eyes off the road when you're traveling at Mach 2." If you like pool games, small-time crooks, a loathing for authority, and fast cars, you'll love this.

Larry (Peter Fonda) is a wannabee Nascar driver, he has the potential but not the finance to get in to it professionally, along with his friend and mechanic Deke Sommers, they decide the only way to get the money is to steal it, their plan to rob a large convenience store on pay day, is worked out to the Nth degree but they hadn't counted on Mary,(Susan George) Larry's one night stand from the previous night getting involved, her presence changes their fate and thus begins a high speed chase across the state. British Horror maestro John Hough, was perhaps a strange choice for this all American film, but you'd never know as he succeeds in being faithful to its roots. Low budget it might be, but all the stunts are real, and this adds a wonderful realistic energy to proceedings, the pace never lets up, it's a film of its time that puts dreck like Death Proof to shame, its high octane agenda doesn't however for one moment ignore character development, we get to know the three main characters very well in such a short space of time that we do actually care what happens to them, their ultimate fate providing the ultimate irony.Fans of Vanishing Point and Race with the Devil should love this equally.