Crackerjack (1994)
Crackerjack (1994)
Tagline 1
A $50 million heist
A ski resort held hostage
A cop with nothing to lose
Tagline 2
Jack take a vacation? Not on his life.
Elevator pitch
Die Hard at a ski resort (but without any skiing, that shit's expensive!)
Summary
Troubled loose cannon cop Jack Wild (yes, really) is persuaded by his brother and sister-in-law to take a break from it all and accompany them on a ski trip... only to find a mobster at the resort. And then a team of baddies take over the place to get the mobster's diamonds.
Trailer
Personnel
- Director: Michael Mazo
- Writers: Micheal Bafaro & Jonas Quastel
Cast
- Thomas Ian Griffith
- Nastassja Kinski
- Christopher Plummer
- Plus several actors you've seen in stuff shot in Vancouver (X Files, SG-1 etc) over the years
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Opinion
When I say this is Die Hard at a ski resort, boy, do I mean it!
Just about the only thing they didn't include was comic relief or a Christmas theme. And the snow was right there, fer crying out loud!
But given just how many Die Hard rip-offs there have been, and how bad most of them are, Crackerjack comes off as one of the better ones, especially given its low budget ($4 million Canadian, which is, what, a buck fiddy in real money? ;). Plummer's accent is not in Rickman's league, Kinski doesn't get to make us care much about her, and it lacks the little comic touches of its role model.
On the other hand, things move along at a fair pace (once the trouble starts), and when it comes to the hand-to-hand combat, it feels genuinely punishing, with Griffith pulling off some sweet moves. (I thought he was an actor!)
Spawned two more movies: in 2, Jack Wild is played by a different actor. And 3 has no other connection to the other two apart from the title. Always a sign of quality! :D
Movie
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