I am sure that I saw this movie when it was first released to theaters, and I remember liking it. I put it in my Netflix DVD queue on a whim and upon watching it again I wonder what I saw in it before. The storyline has promise, but the production values are poor, and the acting and direction are abysmal. Bess Armstrong and Tom Selleck spend most of their time onscreen yelling at each other stridently, as if trying to outdo each other in a "high, whiny voice" contest, and Wilford Brimley's "Bradley Tozer" comes across as more caricature than character. It's hard to believe that this film was directed by the man who directed "Kelly's Heroes".
Review of High Road to China
