Do not throw shade at this movie! Yes, it's bizarre that Gene Kelly is in it. I have no idea why Lauren Hutton agreed to this thing either. But to watch Evel Knievel play a fictionalized Evel Knievel with such an absence of trying to act makes me so happy I cannot describe it. That's how he was in my head -- "Fine, I'll do your stupid Hollywood movie if you give me $10,ooo cash and a bottle of Jack Daniels...and a motorcycle and a hot costar...and the old guy who used to dance. Done."
That could have been the dialogue for the final act, but I defy you to turn the channel. Rivaled only by George Hamilton's turn as Evel himself in the brilliant biopic Evel Knievel, you will still root for the line of buses to catch up to him, even though you never they (almost) never do!
