Monday, April 2, 1934
Daily Nebraskan
Pago 9
Seasoned pros can't
salvage dead 'Tank'
Review by Stephsnie Zlnk
Fiction may just prove itself to be stranger than
fact. Case in point: Tank (currently at the East Park
3) is a movie about a man who runs down a town
with h'u Sherman tank. Things like this just don't
happen.
The whole fiasco starts when Command Sgt. Maj.
Zack Carey (James Garner) is transferred to a
Georgian Army base near a small town along with
his family and a huge tank, which he has painstak
ingly restored to its World War II splendor.
After his loving wife La Donna (Shirley Jones) and
1 6-year-old son Billy (C. Thomas Howell) are settled
in, Carey goes in search for a piece of the action in
the small town. He finds it. He has an encounter with
a deputy who slaps a local prostitute named Sarah
(Jenilee Harrison), who had been talking with
Carey. Carey punches the deputy out.
Later, the deputy and the sheriff, who takes every
thing that happens to his men personally, conspire
to have Billy charged with. possession of maryuana,
which they plant in his locker at school. They do this
to get back at Carey.
Billy is "convicted" and sent to work camp. Carey
then drives over and around things in town, includ
ing the sheriffs office and blows up a few things like
cars before picking up Sarah and going after his son.
Carey, Billy and Sarah spend a few days on the
road trying to get to the Tennessee state line while a
few of the townsfolk chase the tank around the
country, shooting at it with rifles.
The biggest mistake the producer made with
Tank was making it in the first place. It is boring,
meaningless and doesn't have much entertainment
value. Most of the action doesn't get started until
about midway thrqugh the movie. Before then, the
film is an intricate web of unnecessary plot drivel,
which is rarely interlaced with a little comic relief.
None of the comic relief is very funny.
Tank is fashioned after Smokey and the Bandit
a vindictive sheriff with a bumbling deputy chas
ing people breaking the law. The main difference is
Carey really didn't break any laws the law did
That is what is so unbelieveable that a sheriff can
actually be the dictator of a town and a small inci
dent in a bar could escalate into almost full-scale
war against law enforcement.
One of the best scenes in the movie is when Carey
gets into his tank to retrieve his son. That footage
could have been used in an army commercial The
veiwer also gets a feeling that Carey is about to do
something very patriotic. This shows how easily the
filmmakers can deceive the public, especially by get
ting big name talent to act in this movie.
Despite the fact that seasoned pros Garner and
Jones did their best to salvage this mess, Howell
overshadows them both. As the confused Billy, he
successfully plays his part. Unfortunately, nothing
short of a miracle could have saved Tank.
A tank should have been run over this movie.
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