Kidnapping a wealthy woman can lead to problems, especially if her husband is not only unwilling to pay the kidnappers, but flees with the ransom money. An uneasy alliance is quickly formed and a pursuit through the Washington State Forest ensues. There are some surprise revelations along the way, a bit of dark humor, and a lot of emotional hand holding. Guns miraculously turn up in a bus first aid kit, and at a fish hatchery, aiding the survivors of a bus wreck as they flee. Ed Begley Jr. and Miguel Ferrer provide some stability to the otherwise amateurish acting, and there are a couple of exciting moments, otherwise this is easily forgettable. -MERK

What happened to Miguel Ferrer? He's such a good actor yet constantly gets stuck in bad projects like this. He must be the worst judge of scripts.In this apparently made for cable TV outing Ferrer plays a crook who kidnaps Jack Davis' wife (played by Linda Purl) and holds her for ransom. What he doesn't know is the Davis' aren't getting along. So Jack (Ed Begley Jr.) decides to take the ransom money and take off on a bus instead of paying it to the thieves. But Ferrer and his brother catch up with the bus, machine gun it and run it off the road. Thus begins a chase through the woods with Ferrer pursuing the bus crash survivors (a blind girl, a kid with asthma, the usual disaster movie assortment), led by an ex-con played by Michael O'Keefe (who just looks embarrassed to be in this movie). Incredibly, even though they are lost in the woods for two nights--NOBODY comes looking for the missing bus. Apparently when buses don't show up when and where they are supposed to, nobody ever gets curious or I don't know, send out someone to search for them.Davis' idea of taking the money is also pretty lame. When I read the description on the box, I thought his plan might be to get the ransom money, say he paid it and let the kidnappers kill his wife, claiming they took the money and killed her anyway. But no, Davis and this movie are NOT that clever.

The plot couldn't be simpler but the acting is reasonable to good, and the nature scenery (British Columbia come Oregon) is beautiful. This is an entertaining action movie with some character development and a bit of romance (good and bad) that didn't take a lot of effort to follow. None the less the film keeps your attention because the scenes change so rapidly.There is no gratuitous foul language, but a bit of silly shooting.It is not overly clear or credible why the larger group of burdened pursued, keep managing to outrun their fleeter-footed pursuers. And it is never clear why the pursued didn't try to deceive their advantaged pursuers.5.7 / 10 on my scale

Two brother criminals try to ransom the banker Ed Begley Jr. whose wife they have kidnapped. But the meeting is not kept: at the last moment, Begley Jr. conceives a stratagem and flee with the money. As a result, his wife, outraged, decides to help her kidnappers... The intrigue is somewhat lacking, but overall the film is effective, not devoid of a few humorous touches in a superb natural setting.