i really wanted to enjoy this movie. it started out with a nice premise and as it unspooled, it just ended up a bungled mess of celluloid on the floor. when i found out the lead was actually involved in a bank heist, i became very interested until the actual robbery was revealed. that is what took all of the air out of this tire. what was the lead really thinking? he helps criminals rob a bank that he works at and attempts to take half the money instead of the agreed upon 5%. his plan is that he will disappear while the bad guys get caught. what?????? first of all, if they are apprehended, don't you think that they would be happy to implicate this idiot to gain revenge? and what was this lead truly thinking? the minute the robbery is committed, he and his fellow employee vanish with the loot. oh yeah. he's gonna take a plane to somewhere and will never get caught. just move to a secret place with his photo and description plastered all over the media. with a wife and kid in tow. yeah. right. sorry......i know the guy was in over his head financially, but that does not mean he could pull off something so thin and flimsy. plus on top of everything else he never thought to have several escape routes just in case so he gets........lost. wonderful, i guess there would have been no story if he had actually used his head. bah

Watched this when it was shown on TV. Completely shocked by just how good it was! Wondered how it could never have been shown at cinemas, despite an obviously low budget.Been a fan of Dean Cain for a long time, ever since New Adventures of Superman. I do agree, however, with the other comment on here and Cain has been terribly type cast because of it. This really gives him the chance to change that view, which he does with style.Dain Cain is fantastic; really gets a chance to show off his acting skills, and Danny Trejo makes a chilling villain. Unexpected plot twists at every turn. Well worth a watch. Seriously, watch it! Now!

As someone who couldn't stand Dean Cain in anything else I'd ever seen him in, I was expecting to have to tolerate his presence here to enjoy what sounded like an interesting film. In fact, for the most part I enjoyed his performance, finding it hard to equate with the sickly Clark Kent I'd primarily known him as. Understated, a decent range of emotion conveyed, perfectly good. As I approached the film, since my only concern was tolerance of Dean Cain and he came through with flying colours (blue, red and yellow...? ohoho!), you might think, as I did, that settling into enjoying a taught little sleeper with a very good premise to build on would be the order of the day. Instead, I found a few too many generic set-pieces and, worse, a couple of moments of real head-slapping "I can't believe he did that" stupidity. *****Spoilers: Examples of generic set-pieces and stupidity***** (1) Generic: Talking badly about a dangerous third-party to a friend/associate who, like you, is in the process of escaping from him, only for it to turn out he's there with that friend/associate. (2) Generic: Possible "salvation figure" (in this case a cop) spotted and approached with intent to confess or give yourself up, their expression fixed, and as you get right to them, it turns out they're dead. (3) Stupidity: Pouring the contents of the food packages along the road, and dropping the bag there - Why not just pull over somewhere and put it all in a hole?? (4) Stupidity: Taking the truck (not to mention leaving the car in plain view). You want to evade the law, whom you've already had a bit of a brush with, but now you're in a stolen vehicle?? (I didn't see him leave any money for it) (5) Stupidity: The height of it, where I really thought the film lost a lot of credibility... Telling plans, in detail, to a basically anonymous person with no reason for "loyalty" to you (the phone navigation woman). *****End of spoilers***** I also found the role of Danny Trejo a disappointment... He had high billing and I was expecting/hoping to see the sort of brilliantly menacing performance he excels at but instead we get a lot of his voice and only, to memory, one glimpse of his face in the whole film... In summary: Didn't feel I'd completely wasted my time, did watch to the end, but quite unsatisfying overall and extremely unlikely to really stick with you. Comparisons: Not to Phone Booth. "Phone Booth in a car" is a poor comparison. He's being threatened by regular phone-calls but that's about it for similarity there. The most obvious comparison to me is The Hitcher (the original), followed by Breakdown, an element of Duel and any number of "person being chased by villain/s they double-crossed" type chase films before you get to Phone Booth.

I heard the movie was bad...I heard it was boring...I heard it was itself, lost. However, the mere thought of staring at Dean Cain, and only Dean Cain, for 90 minutes didn't seem like a bad idea...and at first, it seemed to pay off. The movie started off incredibly well-paced, the plot unfolded perfectly, as were learned more about Cain's character, and what he's doing lost in the desert. The movie hooked me quickly, and did manage to hold my interest through it's running time. Dean did a find job, as did Lemke, a first time director. However, the WRITING...it was atrocious. Somehow the writers envisioned the main character as a grown man, a business man, as someone who talks with people like a teenage boy to his toked up pals. I tryed counting how many times he said 'man', but I lost track. You know..."I can't believe this, man", "how could you do that, man?", "hey man, what's your problem?!". I mean, seriously...it got to be a bit much. Also, they had his character doing some of the most ridiculously stupid crap that any living person could do while lost in the desert...such as fail to ask a cop for directions, and trading in your perfectly functioning BMW for a $500 Ford truck, that you don't even know runs, for the sole reason that you want to avoid a cop that doesn't like you littering (at least, that's how it seemed, since there was really no point otherwise). Towards the end, the movie became so predictable, I was sure my assumption had to be wrong. It just couldn't be the resolution...it's too easy! Sure enough though, it was. Some great acting on Dean's part (for what he had to work with, anyway), an interesting story (before it took a wrong turn, no pun intended), and decent direction made this movie a 6/10; and surprisingly, I'd probably watch it again (perhaps something to do with staring at Dean Cain for 90 minutes, ).