A Western with trucks instead of gunmen, Sam Peckinpah's film works well on and off, but could have done with the overall drive of the C W McCall record on which it's based. Peckinpah gives Kris Kristofferson little chance to endow the major character, Rubber Duck - leader of a convoy of trucks running for Mexico after a fracas with police - with the charisma of which he's capable. The movie certainly has its moments; the problem is that they all belong, as it were, to different films. It also has some nice lines. I particularly liked the black truckin' gal who, on overturning her machine, spits out: `Goddam white junk truck.' A film of contrasting pleasures and annoyances, then, and, being a Peckinpah vehicle, one that's also peppered with slow-motion.

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