F.T.W.

First time I saw this movie I was over at a friends house. He didn't like Clem very much neither did I. & he didn't treat his sister Scarlett (Lori Singer) from the movie (Foot Loose with Kevin Bacon) right either. Tormented her, & had sex with her. I don't know how she can forgive him after his death. Mickey Rourke stars as Frank T Wells in the movie has just been released from prison. & is seeking a better life. Getting in on rodeo life, It wasn't going to be easy on him. He had depression here & there, including a little trouble with somebody there at the rodeo after he got through with his event, the Guy just says that just cost you a hundred bucks, Rodeo doesn't need your kind. He also had an Indian friend Bucky Miller (Rodney A Grant) who was there to stick up for him. & they'd known each other in the past. Clem (Peter Berg) & his sister Scarlett originally lived in the Junkyard. Clem wanted to get rich, & starts robbing banks, he is too crazy & becomes a lunatic. His planning also wasn't any good. Didn't use good judgment or nothing. Too many drastic measures. & a murderer who kills every cop that comes within 5 feet of him. He'd kill anyone even when they were scared & begging for him not to kill them. He could have just handcuffed them to the steering wheel or shot all 4 tires. But he didn't have to kill them. He just wasn't very smart! Not only that, he doesn't think about nothing!! The only thing I can say about Peter Berg is this, (I think he would have been a good choice of actor for one of the terminator movies as the bad guy! I'm very surprised they didn't ask him for a role in one of those movies.) Clem was tracked to a motel by the police who surprised him. & didn't give the 3 of them a chance to surrender. Just starts firing shooting up the motel like theirs a war going on or something! Clem gets shot up real badly. One of the officers tells the sheriff he needs a Hospital, The sheriff does take the law into his own hands & kills Clem. He wasn't supposed to though! I think he was wrong. His name was Whitlock, He just flat out killed him, no pity for Clem whatsoever! & calls him an animal! I can understand how the sheriff must have felt at the time, Perhaps he was determined to catch him & Clem had an easy trail for him to track him to the motel with of everybody he'd killed! In real life though you can't kill someone like that, Like Whitlock did!! No matter how frustrated you are! Whitlock would lose his badge in real life. & Clem in real life would probably get the electric chair! If you did what Clem did in real life They'd get you! No 2 ways about it! Clem in my opinion pushed the Law too far with his killing spree! He's someone who thought killing was fun, thought he was in front of video arcade game or something, Basically never more than Stupid!!!!!!! Scarlett returns to the old Junkyard for a few hours, It didn't feel the same without Clem, She picks up a few of her things & heads out. Vowing not to come back. Scarlett soon meets Frank T Wells, They become engaged, & they both try putting the past behind them in any way that they can. Though Scarlett is unable to change her ways. Thought she still had something against the law. Inside though I believe she wanted to avenge her Brothers death. I guess the law was no friend of hers! That shows throughout the movie, when she is on the run right before her death using roadrage & everything against the law. She wanted the law to come after her, trying to get their attention, & have her revenge on any officer for what happened to her brother Clem. The ending is sad when Frank T Wells dies. At least he stood a much better chance of going to Heaven than Clem. People like Clem do not go to Heaven when they die! If I understand correctly all 3 of them were having a tough time making a living, Clem must have had money problems, You don't just Trash your life like that & get yourself killed!! Clem underestimated the Police or Sherrif or whoever. & thought none of them could touch him! But I liked him anyways both him & Frank T Wells. Joe who was teamed up with Clem was Scarlett's first boyfriend. I think they're a little off on the script of this movie, Frank T Wells should have lived, There is nothing wrong with trying to make your life right! I don't think he could handle living without his new girlfriend Scarlett. Putting the past behind you or whatever isn't always easy. Not if we're torn up about something. I believe Scarlett was torn up over her brothers death. She loved Frank but couldn't get away from doing stupid & crazy things. That's just how it is sometimes. No explanation to it! Their love for each other wasn't enough to help Scarlett overcome how she felt over the loss of her brother. & all that which she had mentioned (If Frank wasn't making enough money in the rodeo) then Scarlett would rob a bank for those reasons? Lies! She Lied to him. She wasn't very honest with him. & why didn't she tell Frank how she really felt? She was just torn up over Clem's death & had a score to settle with the Law! Maybe Whitlock. Anyhow I think the movies good enough for me.Frank T Wells has some time alone before & after Scarlett dies. That friend of his the Sheriff guy was right about one thing, Frank was no cop killer,He kept running on his horse & I think in his mind he wasn't wanting to go back to prison. & he wasn't going to!When he refused to stop Whitlock the same Sheriff who killed Clem shot at & killed Frank T Wells from the helicopter! He was a bad sheriff! Even if he didn't mean to kill him, I wouldn't have believed him, maybe the other sheriff, the one who kept Frank in jail for the Bar fight.There are good scenes & bad scenes, some though you may find very disturbing!!!!!!!

I really did enjoy this rarely available Mickey Rourke movie. He wrote it under a different name, as he usually does with his work. I found it to be very interesting and entertaining. It is available in Europe under a different name, so be careful to order the American version or it may not play on your DVD player. (W.T.F.) Had been looking for it for awhile but realized it was released here under The Last Ride. Easy ordering from Amazon .Com. They always seem to have what I am looking for.

I knew that this was a used VHS tape when I purchased it. I received it and the condition was great. There was nothing at all wrong with the item and the playback was excellent. I would definitely recommend this seller and would order from them again.

this one is my all time micky r. movie. i enjoyed the rodeo parts more than the hell raising robbers though' otherwise it's a 10 in my book.

It wouldn't work in my vcr.

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My Most favorite. movie of Rourke,s ! WHY CANT YOU GET THIS MOVIE,DVD, at a reasonable price!!!

'God, please don't take that little girl away from me'. One of the sweetest lines ever. Heartbreaker but EXCELLENT!!!

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Thanks again. +++++