Destination Vegas

The word "terrible" doesn't even begin to describe this movie. When I loaded the tape into my VCR the promos began and I honestly wasn't paying too much attention to them and left the room for a minute. When I returned I saw what I thought were more promos and said to myself, "What cheesy movie is this? I'm definitely not gonna rent that one." Turns out it wasn't a promo and was actually the beginning of the movie. So I knew I was in for it from the get-go.

The movie started off bad and ended even worse. The writer had a good idea for a plot but the acting was awful and the chase scenes were ridiculous. The bad guys crashed their car a few times and yet it still ran. And I've never known a shotgun to hold endless amounts of bullets. Not to mention the fact that if you can't hit a target that's right in front of you you've got problems.

Needless to say I didn't care for this movie at all. So if you're at the video store and you see it on the shelf, keep walking.

I watch a lot of movies - some good, some great, some terrible - and I pride myself on being able to watch the whole movie, even if it's awful. Not this movie. I just could not bring myself to waste 90 minutes of my life with this disaster. Eight minutes was all I could take. Poor acting, stiff dialog, and an absurd plot combined to force me to hit the "eject" button on the DVD player. That's all, I've already wasted too much time on this film.

Hmmm...I'm at a bit of a loss for words at the moment. The first thing I would like to say is that this is the first movie ever to cause me to experience severe chest pains. (Yes...I AM being serious and I'm not saying that simply for the sake of attempting humor.)

This movie is so idiotic, my first recommendation would be for you to never, ever view it. With that said, if you must torture yourself, I would recommend that you remove from the room anything which might be thrown at your TV screen in a bout of frustration.

"Destination Vegas" is about a female attorney whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere (as if anyone's car ever breaks down anywhere else in a movie.) Anyway, she gets picked up by a creepy guy in a pickup truck. He has a magic shotgun inside the cab of his vehicle. Well, the attorney grabs the magic shotgun and makes the guy stop the truck and get out. Blah blah blah...yada yada yada.

Let's get to the "good" stuff. A couple of hitmen are on the trail of the attorney and try and try and try to kill her. She tries and tries and tries to kill them with her magic shotgun. OK...why do I keep calling it a "magic" shotgun? Because at no time during the film does it ever run out of shells even though it is never reloaded. Also, it can never, ever hit any target no matter how close it is. Even a hack like me could do some damage with a shotgun pointed at a car only ten feet behind me. Somehow, the hapless attorney fires off a dozen or so shots without hitting a darn thing.

The movie seems to drag on forever...and ever...and ever. Almost the entire film takes place on some obscure road which goes from southern California to Las Vegas. The only people who travel this road are people who are closely connected to the story. If you're looking for some exciting action once the attorney gets to Vegas, you are going to be severely disappointed. Only the last five or so minutes actually takes place in Vegas. They show a few fleeting glimpses of downtown Vegas and that's it.

Why are there hitmen after the attorney? Who cares! Why was this movie ever made? Who knows?!! Please...just stay away! You'll thank me for it! 1/10

A more accurate description of this movie is "She's young, she's an attorney, she's packing a 12-gauge shotgun, and she's got great legs!

The plot is very simple. It involves a chase scene. You really cannot go wrong with chase movies. The movie is an action flick and like the majority of action flicks, this one held me to my seat. It was a little cheesy at times. The acting could've used some improvement. But it was a fun flick.

Is is my imagination? Or does our starlet's skirt, which started out with a long hem and a split seam on the side, after getting torn (to a shorter length) seem to get shorter over every skirmish that followed?

This movie isn't exactly the best movie. It was done on a low budget and it could've been much better. But overall, it was a pretty good movie.

What a mess. I have no idea what version of this film ever made distribution but I'm a witness to some of the beginning of it's post production experiences. Some of the stories I won't tell unless paid to do so. No reason for anyone else to get hurt. I was pulled into this project as a re-recording mixer out of hunger and boredom and then stupidity for staying once I'd seen reel one. Truly some of the worst dialog tracks I've ever heard. Not unlike many stinkers I've worked on-- a total salvage job. Maybe some additional work was done to the film after the first final mix. What really made the entire experience painful was not being paid for the final week of mixing.