Conference bookie::movies

706.0. "Judgment Night" by BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY (Thailboat!!) Sat Nov 26 1994 10:35

    
    	Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Dennis Leary.
    
    	Emilio, Cuba and 2 other guys borrow a Winnebago [or some other
    	mobile home] to go into "the city" [which is never actually
    	defined, as far as I know ... the only possible clue being a
    	remark at the end about having tickets to a Bears game, so I'd
    	guess Chicago] to see a boxing match.
    
    	They take off, and get stuck in traffic almost immediately, so
    	decide to exit and take the back roads to get around the traffic
    	jam.
    
    	Well, as anyone who's seen one of these movies [or the previews
    	for this one] knows, you don't do this in a big city or you're
    	asking for trouble.  And they got what they "asked" for.
    
    	They're cruising through the slums when they think they hit
    	someone, so they stop to take a look.  They find a kid on the
    	side of the road who's been shot, so they take him into the
    	mobile home to bring him somewhere for treatment.  Minutes
    	later they're rammed by a Cadillac and they end up wedging
    	themselves into an alley, and their passenger is yanked through
    	the rear window and shot right in front of their eyes.  So they
    	set the mobile home on fire, which goes up in a spectacular ex-
    	plosion and embark on what's probably the most terrifying night
    	of their lives.
    
    	I liked it.  Your typical "stalker vs. people in the right place
    	at the wrong time" movie.
    
    	Spolier stuff:
    
    
    	You knew Ray, the jerk with the big mouth, wouldn't last the
    	night, and you were pretty sure the other 3 would make it.
    	And you knew Dennis and his gang would lose.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    	Excellent movie - with a great soundtrack.