A former getaway
driver who has retired to an idyllic Portuguese coastal village decides to do
one more high risk job.
Unusually, it's not
because he needs the money or the bad guys are holding his gerbil hostage, it's
because he's bored.
I've read a few times
about astronauts struggling with depression after returning to Earth because
they realise nothing they witness or achieve again in their life will have the
magnitude or significance of looking down at our planet from space. It must be
an experience that is difficult to articulate, to gaze upon our existence from
the position of the gods.
Anyway, the driver is
feeling his version of spaceman glumness, so takes on the job of driving a
prison escapee across a few countries so he can be taken into hiding by his
people. Things don't go as smoothly as planned and they soon have assorted plod
and henchgoons giving chase as they zoom around some incredibly scenic parts of
'70s Europe.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067329
7/10
Perkin.
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