This one was perhaps unfairly overlooked for those of you who like glossy 80's product used to glamorise hardware. I would've liked to have seen the director make more of a choice between 'investigative thriller' and straight-up action movie, because trying to do both makes it occasionally uneven. More than compensating for this though is the great cast and impressive gadgetry. Ya gotta love Roy Scheider; he made a great leading man, and this is definitely one to look out for if you feel he didn't quite catch the wave he should've done, after "Jaws"...
It's a little bottom-heavy, with most of the action being shoehorned into the last segment, but if you garnered some enjoyment from Badham's other crowd-pleasing fare of the decade like "War Games" and "Short Circuit", then you should also be able to derive some form of pleasure from this.
It's a little bottom-heavy, with most of the action being shoehorned into the last segment, but if you garnered some enjoyment from Badham's other crowd-pleasing fare of the decade like "War Games" and "Short Circuit", then you should also be able to derive some form of pleasure from this.