Tank Reviews
December 7, 2006
"If you just want to hate, you can come up with all kinds of reasons."
Despite what impressions you might make from those images (probably similar to my own), this film is actually a good old-fashioned story about people in middle-America. While I don't want to spoil anything, I will say that the tank is not the climax of this story...
Initially, what got me to watch this flick was the poster campaign along with its taglines.
"If you just want to hate, you can come up with all kinds of reasons."
Despite what impressions you might make from those images (probably similar to my own), this film is actually a good old-fashioned story about people in middle-America. While I don't want to spoil anything, I will say that the tank is not the climax of this story...
MovieGuruDude72
April 28, 2010
An absurd plot, but you find yourself rooting for James Garner and that tank, especially against that jackass sheriff. Are all southern sheriff's like this? Worth watching if you're pro-Army and like seeing an old-school soldier take it to a corrupt southern town (and blow the hell out of that town with a WWII Sherman.) A fun movie with a strong message of how far a father will go to protect his children, even though it's about as plausible as James Garner starring in Twilight opposite Kristen Stewart.
firstamb
August 2, 2008
This is the movie that earlier dreck Harry's War shoukld have been. James Garner plays a tank commander guy who gets back on a crooked town sherriff using his personal tank. Silly flick that never should once take itself seriously, and doesn't.
lavenderfawn
June 2, 2007
My dad always made me watch this movie with him. I guess because it's "more" than an action film...it's the touching, albeit violent, story about a man and his son. (sarcasm, in case you can't tell)
Astrotrain
April 25, 2007
One of those 80s movies that fell through. This one is about a son whos father was a tank engineer during the war, and who also gets framed by the local law enforcement for possession of drugs. The hearing for the sons drug charges is in the next county, the only problem is the sheriff will stop at nothing to prevent the father and son from getting there... that is until the father brings in his privately owned Sherman Tank to get them there.
April 1, 2007
Not a bad film at all, a great film about justice and about what is right. James Garner is awesome as a former soldier who owns a tank and takes it apon himself to fight for justice and free his son from injustice. A cool 1984 movie.
April 15, 2008
Probably one of the craziest plots I ever saw, but the all-star cast makes it work. Especially James Garner.
Mike L.
July 11, 2009
OK the movie is really not that good, one of those "authority suppressing the common man and woman" but they screwed with the wrong guy. In this case they messed with James Garner, Tank Commander.
So the big scene is....the whole town has been messing with James and his girl to the point where he cant take it no more. So of course he is able to get a hold of a tank and once he rolls that tank into town all hell breaks loose and he lets loose with..."You assholes better move it."
It is partly the climax but more importantly it is Garner's voice that makes the movie. To this day it makes me laugh.
One of the great one-liners of all time. "You assholes better move it."
OK the movie is really not that good, one of those "authority suppressing the common man and woman" but they screwed with the wrong guy. In this case they messed with James Garner, Tank Commander.
So the big scene is....the whole town has been messing with James and his girl to the point where he cant take it no more. So of course he is able to get a hold of a tank and once he rolls that tank into town all hell breaks loose and he lets loose with..."You assholes better move it."
It is partly the climax but more importantly it is Garner's voice that makes the movie. To this day it makes me laugh.
