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Bank robbing wasn't an exact science in 1933, and watching the bad guys figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover...
...thrill to getting from point A to point B while incurring maximum bodily risk, your ride is here: the Wheelman. Imagine strapping your feet to a clown-sized motorcycle, and you will get the basic idea. You steer with your weight, control the speed with a handheld throttle and pray with all your might. INVENTOR Grant Taylor AVAILABILITY Now, from $1,200 TO LEARN MORE www.wheelman.com.au...
Were it not for Thornton's brilliantly whiny portrayal of a man who knows too much medicine for his own good, Troy Garity (Jane Fonda's kid) might have stolen the picture. He plays the bandits' wheelman, a none-too-bright chap who dreams of becoming a stunt man and occasionally practices the craft by setting fire to himself. He's terrific, but finally Bandits works as a sweetly loony ensemble piece, a sort of cracked romance that's typical of director Barry Levinson at his shrewd but unpretentious best...
...could also use a driver who can keep both him and his car on the straight and narrow until he can keep his appointment with a modest destiny. Seems as though his nephew Whit, a skinny boy of 14, but watchfully wise for his age and an ace wheelman, might fill the bill...
...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...