I picked this up on an 8 movie bargain DVD film collection. It stood out right away as obviously a made-for-Television film. It wasn't all that bad for that class of film.
If you realize this up front and don't try and compare it to the original films you won't be dissapointed so much.
That said, the writing isn't quite there and it tries to cram in as many 'country folk' tropes just shy of incest jokes as it can. The acting is actually decent for what there is to work with. The dialogue isn't aweful and the sequences actually fit together decently well. It's not as chock-full of car and truck action as a full budget movie would be, but it is for the most part watchable... at least once.
Watch it or don't - just don't think of it as a part of the Smokey legacy.
If you realize this up front and don't try and compare it to the original films you won't be dissapointed so much.
That said, the writing isn't quite there and it tries to cram in as many 'country folk' tropes just shy of incest jokes as it can. The acting is actually decent for what there is to work with. The dialogue isn't aweful and the sequences actually fit together decently well. It's not as chock-full of car and truck action as a full budget movie would be, but it is for the most part watchable... at least once.
Watch it or don't - just don't think of it as a part of the Smokey legacy.