The Junkman (1982) Reviews

	Lamont P.

3 out of  3  people found this review helpful

The Junkman is the follow-up to H.B. Halicki's Gone In 60 Seconds (1974). The plot is centered around a salvage yard mechanic that grew into a successful filmmaker and business mogul. Some unknown party wants him dead and so he finds himself ambushed by 4 armed assassins. Two are in cars, two are in biplanes. Our unarmed hero has only his wits and driving skills versus their firearms and grenades. You are not going to watch this for a deep plot, inspiring acting, or intriguing dialogue. This movie is the filming of a cat and mouse game with cars and airplanes. The rest of the movie is an afterthought. The idea here was to raise the bar set by the excellent chase scene in the original Gone In 60 Seconds, but The Junkman falls short. Gone In 60 Seconds is a better film. Watch it before considering The Junkman, which isn't terrible if you consider how it came to be, but it will certainly not appeal to everyone and should certainly be avoided by more critical viewers.

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	Lorraine K.

3 out of  3  people found this review helpful

This DVD contains 3 films: Deadline Auto Theft, Gone in 60 Seconds 2, and a documentary on H.B. Halicki. In Deadline Auto Theft the plot and dialogue are thin, and exist only to link the car chases and crashes. For some of the gags, you can only guess what Halicki had in mind, or why the characters behave as they do. The car chases and crashes are real, and fun to watch. Halicki was killed during filming of Gone in 60 Seconds 2, so what we get is just one long chase scene in which there are 252 car crashes.

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	Edward B.

2 out of  2  people found this review helpful

The Junkman movie is not close to the fun of his first 1974 movie Gone in 60 Seconds. The plot is campy, OK it is bad, and only meant to lossely tie together the car chases and crashes. Still, it has car crashes and some fun car stunts, but you are better off watching the original Gone in 60 Seconds (1974).

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	Andy C.

3 out of  4  people found this review helpful

I watched Deadline Auto Theft and it's almost as if Halicki had never even seen an actual movie in his life. I would not be surprised to learn that he'd only seen the car chase scenes from 70's movies. There are scenes which have nothing at all to do with the plot, so much so that I ended up fast forwarding through most of those scenes! A rookie female cop drives her car into Long Beach Harbor just so we can see her with a wet top! Even Hoyt Axton's dialog couldn't keep me from pressing >>!

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	Alexandre S.

3 out of  5  people found this review helpful

It is my first review in this site and I'm very sad to write it for a movie like that... I cannot say it was the worse movie I saw in my entire life because I couldn't see more that five minutes of it. Bad images, horrible story, no subtitles,...

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