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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: March 28, 1986 |
Starring:
Alfie Wise, Bart Conner, Bill Allen, Jack Weston, Jamie Clarke, Laura Jacoby, Lori Loughlin, Marta Kober, Ray Walston, Talia Shire
Summary:
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
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It lives on its action and dies on its gab. It also would have been better without all those songs about catching the thunder and grabbing the lightning and going for the glory. They sound like a rejected ad campaign for Old Milwaukee. In movies like this, action is often enough--but here, it's just not radical.
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Rad has the best opening credits sequence since the last James Bond
picture, but it has nowhere to go from there. It doesn't even try. [3 Apr 1986, p.D6]
A measure of redemption is offered in an opening montage and in the climactic bike-race sequence; in each, the stunts of the stand-ins are breathtaking. In all other respects Rad, which was directed by Hal Needham (a former stunt man who "directed" the Smokey and the Bandit series) is crudely made, the visual equivalent of a 10-speed with training wheels. [2 Apr 1986, p.D6]
Jul 31, 2020
Rad is a movie that explores the deep relationship between a young man and his BMX bike as he pursues his dream of becoming a Pro BMX rider.
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