tstone
09-02-2007, 09:19 AM
Watching the "other attractions" available from this particular series of DVDs, I've the impression that most of these films are failed pilots or some such. At least that's the impression I got from this film, "Concrete Cowboys". Tom Selleck (pre Magnum) plays Will Eubanks. Jerry Reed plays JD Reed. These two gents are from Small Town Southwestern USA, out to see the USA. Will is the quiet intellectual one, while JD is the mouthy charmer. They have kind of an overall goal of going out and visiting places they never have before. In other circumstances, this would be called bumming around....but never you mind that.
Anyway, the movie opens up with JD playing a game of Poker with some shifty, cheatin' rednecks. He lays down a full house, redneck displays a flush, but he cheated. Mayhem ensues and our boys are on the run. They end up hopping on a freight train (bums, as I said), and end up in all places, "Music City", Nashville, Tennessee.
JD happens to have a a phone number of a buddy, who out of the blue lets the down and outers crash at his swank pad and drive around his Corvette Stingray. Ok...while they are luxuriating, a frumpy looking dame shows up, looking for a private dick. Well, they present themselves as a pair, and are on a case, tracking down a missing struggling country singer. What ensues further are "comedic" hijinks with these two "concrete cowboys" bouncing off lowlifes, Nashvilles constabulary and big names in Country, such as Ray Stevens, Roy Acuff and Barbara Mandrell.
It's a little Magnum, a little Simon and Simon and a little Smokey and the Bandit. But bare, paper thin, with OBVIOUS celebrity cameos. But Reed and Selleck have buddy chemistry, which makes this thing barely watchable.
Barely.
I got this as a gift from a friend with a penchant for cheesy flicks. If you are going to partake, best include friends and maybe adult beverages.
Anyway, the movie opens up with JD playing a game of Poker with some shifty, cheatin' rednecks. He lays down a full house, redneck displays a flush, but he cheated. Mayhem ensues and our boys are on the run. They end up hopping on a freight train (bums, as I said), and end up in all places, "Music City", Nashville, Tennessee.
JD happens to have a a phone number of a buddy, who out of the blue lets the down and outers crash at his swank pad and drive around his Corvette Stingray. Ok...while they are luxuriating, a frumpy looking dame shows up, looking for a private dick. Well, they present themselves as a pair, and are on a case, tracking down a missing struggling country singer. What ensues further are "comedic" hijinks with these two "concrete cowboys" bouncing off lowlifes, Nashvilles constabulary and big names in Country, such as Ray Stevens, Roy Acuff and Barbara Mandrell.
It's a little Magnum, a little Simon and Simon and a little Smokey and the Bandit. But bare, paper thin, with OBVIOUS celebrity cameos. But Reed and Selleck have buddy chemistry, which makes this thing barely watchable.
Barely.
I got this as a gift from a friend with a penchant for cheesy flicks. If you are going to partake, best include friends and maybe adult beverages.