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By Chris Snellgrove
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What if you could get a racing movie with all the thrill and speed you long for along with funny characters you love? As it happens, the perfect example of such a film also features a hidden weapon: Burt Reynolds, better known here as the man, the myth, and the mustache. It’s headlines Smoke and the banditAnd this high-octan, low classic is now streaming on Netflix.
Smoke and the bandit Sets the bar high for Netflix crazy plots: After all, the story begins when a rich man decides to hire a bootlegger who can transport hundreds of cases of coors beer (hey, wealth cannot buy a taste) from texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. He finishes hiring a bandit, an Ace driver who uses her Pontiac Trans and to keep the heat off his friend’s truck full of brews. But the heat will not disappear thanks to an ongoing sheriff who will stop on nothing to see these bootleggers behind bars.
Watch Smoke and the bandit on Netflix lets you enjoy some best career work from truly legendary actors, including Burt Reynolds (best known outside this movie for Boogie nights and The canonball runanother racing classic). He also stars Jerry Reed, best known outside Smoke and the bandit for his first sequence and part in the Adam Sander hitting The water boy. Meanwhile, the film’s charming love interest is played by Sally Field, an actor best known Lincoln and Magnolias steel.
Decades before Smoke and the bandit After landing on Netflix, this film won over a whole generation of filmmen, winning $ 127 million against a $ 4.3 million budget. This was enough profit for Universal Pictures to Greenlight two sequences, although neither corresponds to the murderous quality of the original film. The second film (Smokey and the Bandit II) is still a decent but disappointing sequence, and the third film (Smokey and the Bandit Part 3) It could also be a cinematic war crime.
On Rotten tomatoes. Smoke and the bandit It has an essential score of 72 percent. Judges generally noted that while the film was a bit dumb, it kept things entertaining through a constant stream of car shipwrecks and goodbye courtesy courtesy of the charismatic cast. And the film has an audience score of 85 percent, indicating that mainstream audiences even greater Fun with this Redneck Racing Classic than critics did.
The judges are generally right: Smoke and the bandit is a lovely dumb film, even according to Netflix comedies standards. But the important part is that it is dumb funAnd the pure charm of this film helped him gain a well -deserved place in Hollywood Classics Canon. This is your chance to enjoy one of the most bold and prestigious films ever made in experiencing something truly special: Burt Reynolds in his main.
Will you find Smoke and the bandit As good criminal as we did when you watch it on Netflix, or is this the kind of movie you’d rather report to Johnny Law? As I wonder if you could transport thousands of beers to Atlanta in 28 hours, you will not know until you try it yourself. You will warn, though: by the time the credits roll, you will want to drive faster than you meander before.
