Review of In Pursuit

In Pursuit (2000 Video)
3/10
Um, what?
23 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Ever wonder what a film with someone who is innocent running from the law were like if it made absolutely no sense and did not adhere to basic court precedings, ignored DNA and featured a totally implausible romance? Well have I got a movie for you! Seriously, this thing is just kind of a 'what?' movie. Putting the same shirt on a corpse so it looks like you before you burn it? What? A pair of stoner rangers who drive a cougar from the woods to downtown San Diego, what? Claudia Schiffer doing Daniel Baldwin in prison on a ladder, what!?! I mean, this thing has so many crazy things happening, I do not even question Coolio as a prison guard.

So the story has Daniel Baldwin as a lawyer who is seen trying to get a guy off of a crime by insulting him and then gets a bit sassy with the investigating officer. He is then in a cemetery where this wreck takes place and a picture is taken and I still do not know how this played a part in the over complicated scheme, but Daniel is arrested and he thinks it is for drunk driving and instead it is for murder and he is convinced that the officer he got smart with is out to get him! He then breaks out of jail because we cannot have the in pursuit part of the title without it and he goes to clear his name and solve the mystery, get into a cage with a cougar and have the most cringe crying scene ever!

The stars in this thing range from fairly good, Dean Stockwell and Baldwin to amateurish, Coolio and Claudia. Of course, I put Baldwin in the fairly good, but neither Claudia or Coolio had a horrible blubbering crying scene that was totally something out of a comedy. Just like the bizarre scene with the stoner rangers, that thing just did not fit in this film...

So, you get the absurd and implausible, plus the San Diego stoner rangers! What is not to love? Heck, I almost forgot David Graf from Police Academy fame as the head of an oblivious family that gives a bloody Daniel Baldwin a ride! You get all this as the film races to a conclusion where you learn that Dean Stockwell is Baldwin's dad and that if you put your shirt on a corpse before blowing up the car, they will not even bother checking dental records or DNA and you can be officially dead!
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