This adrenalin-pumping action thriller is terrifically well crafted with a Spielberg-like glee (ala "Duel"), and features a fine set of villains (ala "Bad Day at Black Rock"). As lead baddie, the late J.T. Walsh gives the movie's best performance. Hero and heroine - in the form of Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan - are the film's flaws, being bland and under-used respectively (she gets to kill Walsh in a silly, slightly unworthy final coda - which seems there only for her to do something significant). From a non-artistic p.o.v., the picture could be labelled bigoted towards mid-west folk, but as an entertainment it's a good, simple (though never simple-minded) actioner - well worth watching.
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