The Last Chase

1981
PG
1 h 41 min

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Lee Majors, Chris Makepeace, Burgess Meredith, Alexandra Stewart, and George Touliatos in The Last Chase (1981)

In a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that "the oil has run out", an increasingly totalitarian central government has ordered all personal vehicles be impounded by law.

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA former race car driver's car is confiscated. He rebuilds it and drives to Free California with a teen's help. Agents dispatch a jet pilot to stop him, fearing his autonomy threatens their ... Ler tudoA former race car driver's car is confiscated. He rebuilds it and drives to Free California with a teen's help. Agents dispatch a jet pilot to stop him, fearing his autonomy threatens their control.A former race car driver's car is confiscated. He rebuilds it and drives to Free California with a teen's help. Agents dispatch a jet pilot to stop him, fearing his autonomy threatens their control.

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4SnoopyStyle

a few cool things in cheesy Canadian production

In a fuel-starved future, the totalitarian government has just impounded all private vehicles. Twenty years ago, the world was ravaged by a mysterious disease. Race car driver Franklyn Hart (Lee Majors) lost his family during the epidemic. Hart is now the spokesman for the mass transit system. He is being investigated for breaking into the impound lot and in danger of re-education. Ring (Chris Makepeace) is a hacker anti-authority boarding school student. Ring goes on the run from the police and gets Hart's help to drive to "Free California". The government has to stop this symbol of personal freedom. They bring out Vietnam vet Captain Williams (Burgess Meredith) and an F-86 Sabre jet.

This is a rally for driving freedom in response to the speed limit. There are a couple cool things in this movie. However at its heart, it's a non-sensical cheesy Canadian production. I like the operations room although I wonder if it's recycled from another movie. The world in the movie makes little sense but the idea of the freedom of the road is very appealing. Burgess talking to his plane is kind of funny. The movie probably needs more comedy and not the unintended kind.

leaf71

Steve Austin and exploding cactii: need I say more?

Seeing a movie like this gives me a feeling deep in my bowels that someday, I might become an action movie hero. This is an incredibly horrifying movie about the future that could be. I was compelled to watch this movie from front to end, hoping that somehow this movie could get cheesier, and my wishes came true. It is great to know that once an incredibly bad movie gets worse, that it comes out on top again as an entertaining vision of our fears as they were in the early-Eighties.

6f-attali

Weird to watch during quarantine!

I started watching this movie on svod because of the title and Lee Majors. I was on the verge of giving up when there was this scene with quarantine and epidemic. No more cars. Well it was dystopian in '81. No more in 2020. So not the best movie ever, but worth a try.

5ChrisInMiami

The Chase: dated production but a more prescient story.

Was an interesting experience to rewatch this 1981 early cable staple in 2022.

Lee Majors stars as a retired race car driver in a future where gas is outlawed, there are no cars and people rely strictly on mass transit. Fed up with living under a stifling regime he rebuilds his Porsche and heads to 'free America' in California aided by a hacker revolutionary, Chris Makepeace.

In '81 it was pretty mundane 'near future' sci-fi about a U. S. that has given up its dependence on oil and gas powered vehicles. 40 years ago the future was represented as the struggle between an environmentally balanced nation and individuality/ freedom of choice.

I think the movie is actually more prescient today when the pandemic and Ukraine war have pushed gas prices over $5 a gallon and California just introduced legislation that by 2035 all cars must be electric powered. It is interesting to see the environmentalist government portrayed as fascists hell bent on stopping Lee Majors from inspiring an uprising for freedom of choice.

Also, I was a big fan of Chris Makepeace when I was a kid and wish he had continued making movies.

Kai-18

Six-Million Dollar Man goes cross country hunted by the guy who broke his glasses in the Twilight Zone

Not as weird as it sounds but twice as unbelievable. Though this isn't a great movie it's a nice time killer for nostalgists. Lee Majors gets sick of the government who wishes to restrain everyone's need for speed. So he and a teen skip town and go cross country as a team that's like the Dukes of Hazard meets Batman and Robin (not the lame film, just the hero team). Things get nutty when Burgess Meredith is called in to take them down but he decides he won't and just pretend to. It's fun but all in all a cheese flick. Last words of the film: "this could set us back to the 1980's." That's is kinda scary when you think about it but John Hughes films would improve.

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Curiosidades
The film takes place in 2011.

Erros de gravação
The protagonist refuels his Porsche by pumping out the remaining fuel from storage tanks that have apparently not been refilled for 20 years. Gasoline tends to lose its combustible tendencies in as little as six months - depending on environmental conditions - and after two decades would definitely not be usable in a vehicle engine.

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Hawkins: What do you see there, Captain?
Captain J.G. Williams: I see a car and two people. Wow! Look at that... son of a bitch!
Hawkins: Much more than a car and two men.
Captain J.G. Williams: Well, that's all I can see.
Hawkins: This man's dangerous. This little joyride he's on is undermining the entire balance of this country.
Captain J.G. Williams: Sir, this is just one car... I mean, a little exhaust isn't going to upset the whole balance of the universe.
Hawkins: You are missing the metaphor.
Captain J.G. Williams: There's a meta-who?
Hawkins: I am talking about our entire way of life, Captain. We live in a society that has the greatest tranquillity ever created by man. Furthermore, this society is more protected than any other in history. And do you know why?
Captain J.G. Williams: Well, I figured...
Hawkins: Because of the system. The system of our existence which has been worked out so perfectly. In fact, it is that system which dispelled the desperate quest for the impurities contained in mobility. The mobility which had driven this nation like rats, scurrying in every direction that led us nowhere. Nowhere! Now, we have removed that addiction and brought order and tranquillity... the two most fragile flowers in any civilisation. And this man, this fool, is defecating on those flowers! Staining the natural hygiene of our society and tampering with the world's most perfectly balanced system.
Captain J.G. Williams: Sir... what do you want me to do about it?

Versões alternativas
The Code Red DVD despite the 'PG' rating actually contains a new cut of the film that has more nudity and sex that was cut by the distributor to avoid an 'R' rating.