The Road Killers

Director: Deran Sarafian

Cast: Christopher Lambert, Craig Sheffer, David Arquette

Genre: Action/Thriller 1994

Running time: 90 mins. 

Rating:★

While on a road trip, Jack Lerolland (Christopher Lambert) and family are horrified when a young boy is nearly run down by a carload of troublemakers. The group's ringleader, Cliff (Craig Sheffer), challenges the boy's father to a deadly game of chicken. Intent on eliminating witnesses, Cliff orders his friends to kill Jack while he kidnaps the family. The biz are gang's plan crumbling as they among themselves, revealing volatile tempers and shocking secrets. 

Let's take Mad Max, True Romance, and a bunch of Eighties' badass films as our inspiration for our camera shots, mixed in with some dry dialogue, upper-middle class twits, a sexually frustrated teenage girl, and a group of "punks" who are suppose to have no morals. What do we have? A bunch of unnecessary close-ups, redundant flashbacks on events that just happened bullshit! The dialogue and the character dynamic are so painstakingly and unbelievably idiotic that you, the viewer, lose all interest in finding out how the plot "thickens." Lastly, the washed out red undertones are completely useless in being anything for the storyline, except to give the illusion that it's "cool."