Sécurité maximum

There are some familiar faces in this "Con Air" rip off. Dorian Harewood from Gothica and Full Metal Jacket is the lead actor who is 12 years into a 15 year sentence for shooting the guy who killed his wife. Ed O'Ross the villain from Red Heat who also had roles in Lethal Weapon and Universal Soldier has a role as the tough Warden of the prison. Clint Howard is a long way from his Gentle Ben days, but he has been turning up in small roles in movies for years. Waterboy, Austin Powers, Ed-TV, Tango & Cash and Backdraft. Don Swayze who has been in.....um.... err... We'll he's Patrick Swayze's brother. The star of the movie though is Roy Scheider who is a mob boss serving a life sentence. They are all prisoners on a train transferring The worst of the worst Prisoners to a new High-Tec prison. Scheiders character organises an escape with Harewood filling out the Nic Cage role from "Con Air" of trying to stop him, while remaining on his good side.

The end ridiculously takes stock footage from Silver Streak, and a lot of explosions and stunts happen off screen like Harewood jumping from a motorbike to the train, and a helicopter crashing.

I gave it 5/10 simply for Roy Scheider. There's a great scene early in the film where Scheider establishes his bad-ass credentials by brutally clubbing an uncredited Sam Jones (Flash Gordon) to death. Scheider was 66 when he made this, and he looks nails. I only watched this on TV because of Roy Scheider. Its sad that he had to took roles in movies like this to pay the bills, and its understandable that he did, we all have to make a living. I can forgive that rather than Sly Stallone starring in tripe because he was offered $15,000,000 to do so.

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.

I am sorry, but I could not get over the fact that there were no emergency breaks on US trains in 1998. More, US railroads were not equipped with emergency breaking systems that stop runaway trains in case of the engineer passing out.

I love B movies as much as the next guy, but there is only that much lazy writing I can take.

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I am sorry, but I could not get over the fact that there were no emergency breaks on US trains in 1998. More, US railroads were not equipped with emergency breaking systems that stop runaway trains in case of the engineer passing out.

I love B movies as much as the next guy, but there is only that much lazy writing I can take.

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.

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.