This movie was indeed made for a cinematic release. The version being shown on British TV at the moment has some awful truly awful pan and scan moments where nothing is actually on screen, the action (such as it is) happily continuing on the cropped off portions of the original footage. The end titles are shown in full wide-screen.
It's a slight, little movie. A thin plot and not many twists or action but it did have one redeeming moment for me. Pretty early on in the movie, there is a low key car chase where one of the cars runs into a barrier. The set up is pretty run of the mill. Car one drives across a bascule bridge (one of those that opens upwards in the middle), car two follows just as the bridge is starting to open and the barriers come down across the road. So far so ho-hum routine car chase. What happens next is that the barrier smacks into car 2's windscreen and nothing explodes. Nothing flies off dramatically into the air. There's nothing faked, rigged, or breakaway about any of it. It looks like a real car crashing into a real barrier. I found it strangely refreshing.
The big trouble with this movie is, well, it's just dull. It felt a lot longer than its 93 minutes.
It's a slight, little movie. A thin plot and not many twists or action but it did have one redeeming moment for me. Pretty early on in the movie, there is a low key car chase where one of the cars runs into a barrier. The set up is pretty run of the mill. Car one drives across a bascule bridge (one of those that opens upwards in the middle), car two follows just as the bridge is starting to open and the barriers come down across the road. So far so ho-hum routine car chase. What happens next is that the barrier smacks into car 2's windscreen and nothing explodes. Nothing flies off dramatically into the air. There's nothing faked, rigged, or breakaway about any of it. It looks like a real car crashing into a real barrier. I found it strangely refreshing.
The big trouble with this movie is, well, it's just dull. It felt a lot longer than its 93 minutes.