Evasive Action

How desperate must Roy Scheider have become to accept a role in this straight-to-video offering from Jerry P. Jacobs, who must be some incestuously close relative of Alan Smithee. It is sad indeed when a quality actor is forced to prostitute his art in this way...and I thought I'd seen it all with Raul Julia's swan-song as General Bison in the frivolous STREETFIGHTER!

Total CON AIR clone without the budget, stars, script or direction. I particularly liked the character played by Clint Howard.."Hector the Director!" Have producers no shame!

I saw this a few weeks ago after a friend lobbed in from South East Asia with a VHS copy. Stuck it for 40 minutes then put on CON AIR to finish it! Avoid.

What film! I find throughout this picture that tension is cranked up by stealth. What acting! Drama was fully realised by face and walking. The expertise of act was fully realised by shark attack victim Roy Scheider through brilliant. My nerves surrounding trains were mechanically extrapolated through film- I was gripped by story, and my the action only helped prolong viewing time. Steel train was great name and reflected the true power of train, but Evasive Action is the facts because train cannot be embraced like goose. I think trains are not fully realised as story basis, though Under Siege thought train well and atomic train had battle train, but Evasive Action make steel train! I feel film was excellent and implore everyone who likes act, drama, film and train to watch.

For me, the best part of this runaway train disaster, was the closing credits, where you get to understand just how many interesting character actors are totally wasted by the ridiculous script. Let's start with Roy Scheider, as a Mafia boss. Then there is Don Swaze, Clint Howard, Ed O'Ross, and Ray Wise, all lost in the cartoon-like goings on. You have a train. You have the bad guys taking over the train. You have the train eventually crashing into Los Angeles Union Station, yet everyone in the station seems oblivious to the fact that a locomotive has just torn through half the terminal. Hero, Dorian Harewood, jumps off the speeding train with no ill effects, steals a dirt bike, and somehow gets back on the train without a misstep. The weak attempts at levity, especially with the control room operator, are pathetic. Then there is the damaged helicopter, which somehow manages to get a cop onto the roof of the train, before disappearing behind a hill in flames. I could go on and on. The intriguing cast is absolutely the only reason to see this, but only if you are prepared for the ridiculous script. - MERK

A straight-to-video knock-off of Con Air and Under Seige 2, which doesn't have the budget or ideas to pull off anything beyond what you might see on daytime TV. It's packed full of character actors who aren't given much to do but do keep things rolling along sufficiently. Roy Scheider seems to be enjoying the chance to play a nasty bad guy but unfortunately gets lost in the crowd as the movie progresses. Dorian Harewood is not your stereotypical action lead, but he actually suits the character's reluctant participation well. Clint Howard is his usual creepy weird self and plays a pointless yet entertaining character. Don Swayze does his thing and is underused, and it's sad to see Keith Coogan reduced to such a minor side role. This movie is fine if you set your expectations low and still have a thirst for such outings beyond what it models itself on.

Evasive Action (A pure 90's action movie name) is a very low-budget, low-quality & direct-to-the-Shelves of Blockbuster type Action film with a top notch cast of know-the-face actors & B-movie stars.

I liked this way more than Con Air.

Top of the list is the legendary Roy Scheider, one of my all-time favorite actors, this guy is a movie legend & has Starred in many brilliant movies over the course of his Career with Classic films such as Jaws, Jaws 2, The French Connection, The Seven-Ups, Last Embrace & Blue Thunder, just for an example. Scheider is an actor i just love to watch in anything & here in this trashy little B-movie he's still a fun watch. The 90's & early 2000's was Scheider's later-in-Career paycheck parts, where he probably done those cheap flicks simply for an easy paycheck but he's always decent on screen because he was a great actor R. I. P & i generally enjoy his 90's/2000's B-movie work such as Pluto's Run (With Gary Busey) & The Peacekeeper (With Dolph Lundgren) & The Doorway & Daybreak & Executive Target (With Michael Madsen) for example & their all pure 90's Low-budget B-movies but Scheider is always watchable. Here Scheider plays a crime boss, he's an evil villain, who is on his way to a new maximum security prison by train but escapes with a bunch of fellow criminals, all know-the-face characters (Don Swayze, Clint Howard & a few other's) & there's a good guy prisoner on their too who wants to stop them. The prisoner's take over the train & their's lots of Action & shootouts, it's all done very cheaply of course & the film is a cheaper version of CON AIR really but on a train or a secret sequel as it even mentions the events of Con Air. There's nothing great about this film but it is a fun little ride full of character actors & fun action. Dorian Harwood (Full Metal Jacket, Sudden Death, Pacific Hights) plays the good guy prisoner & main hero, named Luke Sinclair, a likeable character & even more so with the reason why he's locked-up, see his family was murdered & the piece of sh#t that did it got off (the "Justice System" doesn't work) so Luke shoots the scum outside the Court house & i totally agree with his vigilante actions.

Ed 'O Ross (Another 48hrs,Red Heat) stars as a prison warden & Ray Wise (Robocop,Jeepers Creepers 2) plays a Sheriff & Rance Howard (Terminal Velocity, The 'Burbs,Universal Soldier,Ticks ) & Keith Coogan (Adventures in Babysitting,Toy Soldiers) it's just nice seeing all these faces we know from many other movies pop up throughout this cheap 'n' cheesy film.

Evasive Action is a simple, cheap B-movie through & through & i like it, it's as simple as that.