An average movie

While watching this movie, I was wondering what pushed Ron Howard, a famous TV actor at the time, to drop completely from acting to become a director. I mean, it is not uncommon that actors decide to become some legit directors as well (Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Ben Affleck,...) but I have never seen another guy seemingly completely dropping off from acting like that. Anyway, since it was Howard's directing debut, I was really eager to check it out. To be honest, the beginning was pretty weak but, after a while, it started to grow on me. Indeed, the whole thing is basically a very long car chase with many cars stolen and destroyed in the process and some scenes were really preposterous and actually pretty hilarious. Unfortunately, the whole concept grew thin pretty quickly and I was rather bored during most of the duration. Of course, since it is a Roger Corman production, you shouldn't expect much production value and instead, you get one of his typical B features. To conclude, even though it was nothing really awful, I don't think it is really worth a look, expect if you want to see how it all started for Ron Howard, at least when you are dealing with his directing career.

5/10