Brittney Powell in Fled (1996)

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Fled (1996) is an escaped prisoner/buddy picture/organized crime vs. the feds, some of whom are crooked film. In other words, we have seen it all before. In order to include some gratuitous nudity, they gave one of the escaped prisoners a stripper girlfriend, played by Brittney Powell. I wish they could have come up with a reason to get Salma Hayek naked.

You are probably thinking I hated it by now, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, due to great execution of familiar material. Stephen Baldwin is serving a sentence for hacking through the phone company computers. Laurence Fishburne is chained to him during a work detail, and the two end up escaping together. The buddy part of the film is pure joy, as the two start out hating each other, and fight constantly. The head of the Cuban Mafia is due for indictment, and the attorney general had his only witness assassinated. Baldwin transferred $5m from a company owned by the Cuban, and, at the same time, copied all of the accounting information from the company computer to a floppy. Everyone wants the floppy. The other character worth a mention is an Atlanta detective played by Will Patten. He nails the dumb country fox character. When he deduces from a fed that he was just talking to the attorney general, and gets him to confirm it, the fed says, "You think you are pretty smart, don't you?" He answers, "I'm about average for a country boy."

The film has the expected car and foot chase scenes, fist fights, gunfights, explosions, etc, but moves in some unexpected directions, and is a very quick way to pass 94 minutes. It is derivative, sure, but has great energy and performances. C.

Nudity Report: Powell shows some lovely breasts, and there is incidental nudity from other strippers in the club she works in.

Critics Vote: Ebert and Berardinelli award 2 stars.

IMDb Summary: IMDB readers say 4.9 of 10.


Written by: Tuna …courtesy of Scoopy.net