daddioe Burton Gilliam played Gollie, the hotel clerk. Gilliam also starred as Lyle in Blazing Saddles. Die hard Blazing Saddles fans should not miss the subtle spoof on "Lyles" famous line: "C'mon boys! The way you's lollygagging around here with them picks and 'em shovels, you'd think it was a hundred and twenty degrees. Can't be more 'n a hundred and fourteen!" "Gollie" subtly spoofs his Blazing Saddles role by referencing the temperature while he's nervously making small talk with Doc. He refers to the temperature feeling like "it was a hundred and fourteen!" I'm surprised the trivia buffs seem to have missed this one. Gilliam is a fine actor.

filthy_morphine Nowhere near the original. It's quite accurate copy bringing nothing new to the story. But the directing is very poor. Basinger is weak - without good directing. Baldwin is simply just a second league compared to McQueen. I watched it just out of curiosity, being a huge fan of Peckinpah's masterpiece, and I got what I thought. Almost a B movie with second rate acting and directing. I wasn't even disappointed, I just don't know what they were trying to do. This remake doesn't try to play with the original material, it's not a tribute and indeed it lacks some really good actor of its era.It reminds me of a bad xerox copy of wonderful photograph.This is a complete waste of your time. Save yourself 2 hours or watch the original (again:)))

DrPhilmreview The original 1972 Sam Peckinpah version of "The Getaway" might have its flaws, but this remake has nothing but flaws.To begin with, Alec Baldwin is no Steve McQueen. He's not even a Butterfly McQueen. His version of Doc is as dull as McQueen's is watchable. Kim Basinger fares a bit better, but then again Ali MacGraw was never all that great an actress to begin with either.The only strengths of this movie are James Woods and Michael Madsen as the bad guys--and its as nice to see Richard Farnsworth in this version as it was seeing Slim Pickens in the original.But screenwriter Amy Holden Jones is no Walter Hill, Baldwin is no McQueen and director Roger Donaldson is at best a journeyman, certainly no Peckinpah.When you see this in the pile of cheapo videos at Walmart, throw it back. Get away!

moonspinner55 Back when Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were a mercurial, hot-tempered, high-powered Hollywood couple they filmed this (nearly) scene-for-scene remake of the 1972 Steve McQueen-Ali MacGraw action-thriller about a fugitive twosome. It almost worked the first time because McQueen was such a vital presence on the screen--even stone silent and weary, you could sense his clock ticking, his cagey magnetism. Baldwin is not in Steve McQueen's league; although he has his charms, and is arguably a more versatile actor than McQueen, this material isn't the proper showcase for Baldwin's attributes. Basinger does well and certainly looks good, but James Woods is artificially hammy in a silly mob-magnet role. A sub-plot involving another couple taken hostage by Baldwin's ex-partner was unbearable in the '72 film and plays even worse here. As for the action scenes, they're pretty old hat, which causes one to wonder: why even remake the original? ** from ****