1. "This routine Charlie Sheen action vehicle follows an immense car chase from San Diego to Tijuana."
2. "THE CHASE owes less to the 1946 Robert Cummings adventure-melodrama of the same name, or even the 1966 Robert Redford adventure-melodrama of the same name, than to Alfred Hitchcock’s adventure-comedies, with their familiar stories of captured women" 3. "Motifs are also lifted from 40s noir--including the ending from DARK PASSAGE (1947)--but THE CHASE has none of the craft or finesse of these classics, and more closely resembles (artistically at least) the other bad films in the notorious" 4. "Unfortunately, THE CHASE spoils its most solid material with overemphasis and a hypocritical subtext." 5. "Her character performs the most traditional female role imaginable--the woman who comes to love the misunderstood loner, even to the point of "servicing" his sexual needs (while being chased at high-speed on the freeway yet!"
chase, the adam rifkin, 1994 our rating:
