Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film-school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen, long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point. Sissy Spacek's overacting would register only 2/10 in terms of horror, but it would score well on the laugh meter.
John Mason (Sean Connery) escapes in a Humvee - the perfect getaway vehicle for a Michael Bay car chase. Mason deliberately hits everything he possibly can in order to throw obstacles in his pursuers' path - postmodern critique of Hollywood car chases, or just cliché central?