Layover

I used to love Hasselhoff. When I was growing up, Knight Ride was the show to watch. I used to collect all the memorabilia and my mother even made me a birthday cake shaped like KITT for my 7th Birthday. Then later during my adolescence he gave us Baywatch which, for a lad moving through puberty, again was the greatest show on TV. Then I see Layover. Now Hasselhoff has still got it, but the script itself is awful. The plot concerns a chance liason during a layover in San Fransisco, and the sinister chain of events he stumbles into. Unfortunately, I worked out the major twist a third of the way into the film and had to sit through the rest of the movie just waiting to be proved right (very irritating I can tell you).

The movie does have it's good points though. It is fun seeing ol' Dave kick ass and go nuts. There are also some fine looking chicks in this. The problem is this film could have been great, unfortunately it is nothing special. Catch this if it's on TV and you aren't looking for any thing challenging. - 5/10

I really like the twists in the story of this movie. It is easy to watch and has a good amount of suspense and humour. David Hasselhoff and Gregg Henry do a great acting job and the great directing and cinematography help to carry this mysterious story. OK, it seems to be quite obvious that this movie has been sponsored by Nokia (which makes some dialogues quite funny). I laughed a lot when I saw that scene in the beginning of the movie where Dan and Jack meet in the plane and Dan shows him that Nokia Communicator mobile phone, that he distributes around the globe... After all, this movie is worth giving it a try, even though the story has some weak spots which actually make this film even more likable!

Considering his Age, the Hoff looks okay in this hi-tech thriller. Pity the same can't be said for co-star Yvonne Scio. Whilst the former lad's favourite had the poise and certainly injected a bit of much needed glamour, it can hardly be said that the heart was there to match the smile. Indeed, I have seen more elbow grease in a broken elbowed (both elbows) shrew. As for Gregg Henry (Jack Gillardo), I have seen more eroticism in a nervous shrew being watched by his shrew mother.

don't get me wrong, the basic premise was good. Erotic terrorist espionage thrillers are far too thin on the ground at the moment. Too thin by five, six. Eight!

While it's a shame to see any character, esp. (especially) one played by the Hoff, indulging in extramarital activities (dirty rudeness with sexwomen), I had to enjoy the tastefully shot scenes between Hoff and Scio. He even broke his glasses!

The performance of Lane offered little other than the pedestrian titillation of a boy in a man's world. Besides his slight, and less than occasional aversions to the benign, he showed as much individuality as a pack shrew in a field of pack shrews.

Basically, whilst the actors tried desperately to make the most of a bad lot, even the Hoff couldn't salvage this dead wreckage.

Watching this movie is a study in frustration. Just when things are going well there is a cheap device to make a transition. Without giving away the ending, it's possible to see the final betrayal of trust several minutes in advance.

This somewhat typical action thriller starts off pretty inauspiciously, dominated by overtones about marital affairs, cheap foul language and banality, and Greg Henry's in-your-face bad guy. The second half serves to partially acquit it as the plot unfolds more and David Hasselhoff, the sucker protagonist, gradually becomes less of a sucker. Altho the pace of the second half is good, we are still waiting for something good, but that happens at the end with a surely unexpected twist. Not much depth but OK as a thriller to rent for an evening.