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Over in HDTGM Musical Mondays group, we discussed this movie at great lengths. I’m not sure I have the time or energy to get into it again, but here it is if anyone is interested.

If you think a hot dog is a sandwich then a pizza is a tartine.

A sneaking, meekly-rationed suspiration of impatient vapors sauntered sulking through the drafty hall long after all had left.

I am in The Horror Virgin Podcast group we are on FB and there is a new episode every week. It is hilarious. And we started a Book Club that goes with it. Right now we are reading The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. We read The Troop last time. In May we will read a book that has been made into a movie or TV show, and June will be Blockbusters, so something maybe like Jaws.

And it wasn't so much a heist as it was a very fortuitous snatch and grab, only for them to get notified via the in-car fax machine, that some version of lowjack had already contacted the cops. Then add to it the trucks carrying toxic waste that apparently blows up like thermite and you have pure mid-90s Stallone schlock. Even more amazing was the director originally wanted Nic Cage for the lead role but Universal thought Stallone was more commercially viable, which is pretty true considering this earned $160 million, and that Cage was a "character actor" despite him just winning an Oscar and The Rock would come out six months prior to this and earn twice as much at the box office and starting his peak run of blockbuster hits in the late 90s.