I'm too hard on Corey Haim,
and its movies like Fast Getaway 2 that remind me of that. I'd seen
this movie years back on VHS (in fact, I think I might actually own it
on VHS somewhere - too hard to keep up these days) and it's not a movie
that I would say I'm crazy about, but I did really like it and Id
gladly show it to other Haim fans. So when it came out here on budget
priced DVD I was like "SCORE!" and picked it up right away. I also
bought Dream a little Dream 2 for $2.00 on DVD, but that's a whole
other review.
 Ok,
first off I'm going to say that this movie is a sequel and I have zero
knowledge of Fast Getaway, so I am going to write the review as such. I
probably should watch it, but it would be kind of hard seeing as I
really like Sarah Buxton and I would feel like Corey is betraying her
by having another love interest in the first one. A little backwards
yes, but I would know that the whole romantic interest angle between
them would be totally redundant by the sequel, so therefore pointless.
Nelson Potter is a immature womanising bank robber - or so it would
seem when we are treated to a long scene at the beginning of the film
where Nelson takes Patrice (Buxton) hostage after robbing the bank. We
soon learn that Patrice knows Nelson and the two are in cahoots (yes!
10 points for using the word cahoots in everyday language). What we
don't yet know is that the pair run a security company and staged the
robbery in order to identify the holes in the banks security system to
present to the people who hired them. I'm sure the police would love
knowing that their resources were tied up for the sake of a security
exercise they had no idea about.
 It's
obvious from the very beginning that Patrice has the hots for Nelson -
her distaste at his womanising and constant bitching at his immaturity
are a dead giveaway (and she calls him immature!). It isn't long before
Patrice decides to quit. Not because she can't stand his lack of
responsibility, but because she can't bear to be around to listen to
him call other girls "Pookie" on the phone anymore. Nelson is called
out on business, but seeing as she just quit, she decides to hang about
and have a swim in his pool. As you do.
Nelson arrives at the bank to discover that the very same holes he and
Patrice identified in the banks security have been exploited and the
bank robbed. Being an ex bank-robber things don't look rosy for him.
Strangely enough though, no money is missing. After he obtains some
surveillance photos and tyre tracks, he goes to see his Dad Sam in
prison who happens to be an expert on tyres. He identifies a shapely
woman in one of the surveillance photos to be Lily - his ex girlfriend
and bank-robbing partner.
Meanwhile back at Nelsons place, Patrice is cornered and pawed by bad
guy cop Ridley who believes that Nelson is behind the robberies, so
that would explain why its okay to grope Nelson's business partner. He
has had it in for Nelson ever since his father cut a deal with the DA
to keep him out of prison. Ridley is unaware that his attack on Patrice
is caught on Nelsons security cameras. Ridley is a smarmy (another 10
points) bastard who really confuses the issue in this movie. Bank
robbers = bad guys. Cop = Also bad guy. Excuse me while my brain
explodes.
 That
night Lily and her partner break in to Nelsons house to steal an item
of his to leave at their next crime scene framing him perfectly. When
Nelson comes home drunk, Lily kicks the crap out of him and gets away
with his pocket knife. Before too long, the cops are after Nelson and
he's on the run. Ridley attempts to kill Nelson for "resisting arrest"
after he finds him watching his surveillance footage to see who broke
into his house and took his knife. Instead he sees Ridley trying to
forcefully remove Patrice's clothes...or something along those lines.
Nelson has just decided he has the hots for Patrice, so he's noticeably
pissed. Nelson gets away from Ridley's attempts to shoot him without
reason (is he so quick to forget the cameras?), but not without first
getting in a few good shots for Patrice.
Sam hears about his sons supposed crimes on the news and knows Nelson
has been set up. He "escapes" from his minimum security prison in order
to help him out by walking out the gate. He wont be in any trouble as
long as he makes it back by morning roll call. Before long he runs into
Patrice and they find Nelson in drag at a laundromat. Nelson and his
father work out that Lily is replacing the money in the vaults with
counterfeit notes, thus making it look like no money is missing at all.
 Unfortunately
they end up right where Lily wants them and she plans to kill them and
make it look like they messed up their latest bank job. Ridley is also
hot on their trail, Sam only has a few hours to get back to prison and
its likely none of them will escape with their lives. It's going to
take some quick thinking on the part of Nelson and Patrice to get out
of this one.
Forgive the cheesy segue, but I really didn't want to give away the
ending although you all know its going to be predictably fluffy. Corey
Haim was still in his semi cute phase at this point in time so he's a
lot more watchable than he is in some of his later stuff. Sarah Buxton
is very pretty, but she has this weird sort of attitude about her - the
same as she had in Rock and Roll High School Forever (coincidentally
with Feldman). I know this has been written in every review in the
world for this movie, but Leo Rossi and Corey Haim have excellent
chemistry and are totally believable as father and son. Other than
that, Fast Getaway 2 is pretty much your average Action/Adventure with
romantic undertones. It's great if you're like me and love the ham (I
did mean ham, not Haim), plus its good for Corey fans too.
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Year: 1994
