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Last Chase,the [VHS]

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This is an excellent movie in my opinion.No CGI special effects crap in this one.If you like race cars and jet fighters you will like this movie.The movie Big Brother doesnt want you to see.

I remember seeing this film at the theater with Robin Williams' Popeye" as afternoon double feature movie matinee when I was kid.

This was low budget Canadian film marketed as American film (Lee Majors made a couple of Canadian movies like this in early 80's such as Agency with late Robert Mitchum)

The shortage of oils leading into ban of automobiles, epidemic wiped out the populations, and people are forced by government to live in suppressed society with ridiculous rules and restrictions. The Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, plays former race car driver who rebuilds his Porsche that was hidden underneath of his garage and breaks free to California where people are start living in free society like used to be. Former World War jet fighter played by late Burgess Meredith is after him to kill.

This movie has so much potentials and a good plot , but it gets lost or misguided to make a solid movie. It just failed to develop those interesting issues/setups/surprisingly great characters into some what successful movie. However that didn't stop this movie to become fun/enjoyable vintage guilty pleasure low budget sci-fi action flick.
Movie stardom hungry Lee Majors with mullet, wearing silver racing jacket (I think stunt man, Mike, from recent Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof might be got the idea from Lee's character, Frank Hart. Well, looks wise....) did his own car stunts with red Porsche racing car. The cross country chase between Porsche and jet was all old school stunts, and it also captured beautiful Denver/Rocky Mt. No CGI on this!!!

This movie also features Chris Makepeace from My Bodyguard and Vamp.
I really like to see this movie available on DVD sometime soon!!!

this film is a lot of fun. it is cool to watch if you like sci-fi or action films. it does'nt make you think to much or look for some hidden meaning, although i am sure theres one there. i just enjoyed seeing the six million dollar man racing to avoid the goverments hired fighter jock. this movie was cool as a kid and fun and nostalgic for me as an adult. just watch it..if you like the last starfighter, death race 2000, sleeper, tron..trancers ect., you'll love this.

One has to wonder whether this movie was the inspiration for Al Gore's desire to ban internal combustion automobiles. In any case, this movie shows the kind asinine totalitarian regime Socialists seem to be trying harder and harder to turn the United States into. It gives us a taste of the sort of top-down, "obey the rules or else", brainwashing type of society we could find ourselves in if we're not careful.

Having been 'convinced' over the years to submit to authority and preech the 'goodness' of the new oligarchical system compared to the 'badness' of the old individualistic system, Lee Majors' character, an ex-race car driver, find encouragement in a few short pirate television transmissions. "Radio Free California, calling America" inspires him to dig up and reassemble his hidden race car, and flee the defacto prison the east coast has become.

In true neo-Democrat/Socialist style, he is ordered stopped at any cost, preferably by being killed. A single Vietnam War aircraft and its pilot (Burgess Merideth) are pulled out of mothballs and a bottle, respectively, for this task.

Other means are also employed along the way to try and stop the car and its occupants, including a Stalin/Mao-esque slaughter of a group of innocent people who took them in to give them medical care.

Now in 2005, since California is literally going broke spearheading the Union away from individual rights and toward Socialism, the idea of "Radio Free California" returning to machines and to personal liberty takes quite a leap of faith, but it's a fun 3000 mile trip across the country nonetheless.

As the story goes, the Social dystopia was able to take hold after a disease wipes out much of the population. Since the time the film came out, 1980, the likelihood of such massive devestation from disease has only increased. And never has the proverb "Power corrupts; Absolute power currupts absolutely" been any truer than it is today.

I don't agree for a second that the point of this movie was to encourage the worship of the internal combustion engine or petroleum products. But yes, in the case of Lee Majors' character and the race car, it was a gasoline engine that was the appropriate, if not the only tool capable of escaping tyranny.

If this movie is one big ad for big oil companies, does that mean every movie about police who use firearms to help arrest evil-doers, or which shows someone defending their own life with a firearm, is just a big ad for Colt or Glock?

Loners who are ticked off at the system trying to pound them into behaving like everyone else will like this movie. I loved this movie! But if you're into that whole "ride public transit or go to jail" thing, you'll only like the first 15 minutes of this movie...so have your Michael Moore tapes ready.

I dont remember this film every making it to the box office, but they did show it quite frequently on Cable TV back in the early '80s. My guess is, thats were most people remember it.


The Last Chase is not an outstanding sci-film but rather a low budget flick with some fairly decent acting. Lee Majors (the bionic man) stars as an aging ex-race car driver named Frank Hart. Frank has lost his family in what seems to have been a plague and now spends his days giving lectures about how the Mass Transit system is better and cleaner than his old gas burning race car.

Frank ends up recanting his love of his job at a High School assembly where loner student Chris Makepeace identifies with with him. In the backdrop there illegal tv broadcasts made by a "free California" inviting people to go back to cars (?). Anyway, Chris and Frank run off to California in Franks old race car and are vigorously pursued by the Government.

For what it is,the movie is a solid B movie. Dont expect much in terms of sci-fi effects or thrills....

I'd give it more stars if the production values had been better.

The really sad part is that the VHS is now a rare item and the prices going for this little piece of nostalgia are outrageous.

i'm not sure if we are to take this mess as drama, action, comedy, or just the junk it is. the "plot about a world where cars are outlawed to "enslave" the masses is never given even a remote bit of believeable grounding. the movie then throws in a pilot from the korean war played by the great burgess merideth as the way the goverment tries to stop majors who just happens to be a former race driver who has the last working car and a pump to pull gas left in the bottom of old gas tanks and is running from the goverment to "free califorina" and freedom, . they give this hundred year old man a jet and tell him to kill majors. the fact he doesen't is just silly. this one must have been the nail in majors film life. just junk not worth the time it takes to watch. think about it have you ever heard of it being out at the theaters.