While it may not be as entertaining as the original GONE IN 60 SECONDS, it still delivers a lot of car chases, crashes, and more automotive mayhem, with decent writing and directing by Jack Vacek, who worked as a cameraman on SECONDS.
Vacek plays cool-cat California highway patrolmen Smokey who does his best to patrol the roads with his partner and best friend, Ed (Ed Abrams). One day, they pull a car over belonging to a repo man George (George Cole), but they find him likable enough that the stranger offers to give them work repossessing cars. Unfortunately, every repo job they receive gets a tip-off from the cops, leading to the usual chase scenes. George confesses that the guy who's behind it all is crime boss Lewis Sloan (Tex Taylor). So the gang takes away Sloan's Corvette, suddenly all hell breaks loose, leading to a wild car chase finale.
DOUBLE NICKELS is virtually a follow-up to SECONDS, with the same crew, cast, etc. Vacek did make another decent action movie almost a decade later, DEADLY ADDICTION, released on video as ROCK HOUSE. Both films are quite good.
Vacek plays cool-cat California highway patrolmen Smokey who does his best to patrol the roads with his partner and best friend, Ed (Ed Abrams). One day, they pull a car over belonging to a repo man George (George Cole), but they find him likable enough that the stranger offers to give them work repossessing cars. Unfortunately, every repo job they receive gets a tip-off from the cops, leading to the usual chase scenes. George confesses that the guy who's behind it all is crime boss Lewis Sloan (Tex Taylor). So the gang takes away Sloan's Corvette, suddenly all hell breaks loose, leading to a wild car chase finale.
DOUBLE NICKELS is virtually a follow-up to SECONDS, with the same crew, cast, etc. Vacek did make another decent action movie almost a decade later, DEADLY ADDICTION, released on video as ROCK HOUSE. Both films are quite good.