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- 1986
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
- 1986
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
Summary The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
Directed By: Hal Needham
Written By: Sam Bernard, Geoffrey Edwards
- 1986
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
- 1986
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
Rad
24
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Summary The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
Directed By: Hal Needham
Written By: Sam Bernard, Geoffrey Edwards
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
24
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
It lives on its action and dies on its gab. It also would have been better without all those songs about catching the thunder and grabbing the lightning and going for the glory. They sound like a rejected ad campaign for Old Milwaukee. In movies like this, action is often enough--but here, it's just not radical.
Rad has the best opening credits sequence since the last James Bond
picture, but it has nowhere to go from there. It doesn't even try. [3 Apr 1986, p.D6]
A measure of redemption is offered in an opening montage and in the climactic bike-race sequence; in each, the stunts of the stand-ins are breathtaking. In all other respects Rad, which was directed by Hal Needham (a former stunt man who "directed" the Smokey and the Bandit series) is crudely made, the visual equivalent of a 10-speed with training wheels. [2 Apr 1986, p.D6]
Conner's screen debut is inauspicious--to put it kindly--in the quality of both his acting and the material chosen, and someone else is obviously doing his riding.
The bicycle acrobatics behind the credits at the opening of Rad are so spectacular that you wonder what the movie can do to improve on them. The short answer is, nothing. It's a.ll uphill once the tale gets under way
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Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
