Legacy (1998)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This movie isn't *that* bad. Sure Hasselhoff cheeses up every scene, heck all the dialogue for all the actors is cheesy, but otherwise it is just standard direct-to-video fare. Oh, and was Rod Steiger desperate for cash or what? It just shows that you need to treat your agent with respect, folks. Otherwise they will get back at you by putting you in stuff like this. Regulate your Hasselhoff intake to small doses and you should be OK. Still, approach this film with the caution warranted when someone tells you it "isn't *that* bad".

I just sit and wonder sometimes that people out there are spending their time writing nonsensical movies of the calibre and then submitting them for production. I suppose the scariest thing bit is when somebody reads these scripts and gives it the green light.This film sucks quite a lot. No - it sucks loads. Hasselhoff is funny. You half expect him to talk into his watch at any moment and summon the help of his Trans-Am. The plot is thinner than a cigarette paper and the acting is sub-Baywatch standard. David does a fair bit of running tho (which is nice to see) but that is about the height of the excitement in this movie.Avoidance is critical. Unless you have watched every other bad movie ever made - this includes Strictly Ballroom!!! 102 minutes of my life have never felt so long. Vive la Baywatch!

Hypnotic and dark movie with late 90's peek into Manila and Knightrider's continuing big screen efforts.The movie suffers from lack of screenplay quality but still delivers enough to satisfy fans of Hasselhoff and Manila.....

An American war photographer helps a young Eurasian woman find her father she's not met before and gets caught in a web of intrigue and danger. This movie has an excellent war scene introduction that unfortunately lapses into a long meandering chase with little to sustain the viewer's attention. The peek into Filipino life in the suburbs of Manila is interesting but most of the acting borders on the mediocre. I'm not sure if this is an accurate reflection of the Philippines, but the movie certainly does not help the country's image of lawlessness (especially with the recent spate of kidnappings we're seeing). David Hasselhoff is not necessarily a bad actor, but he's so typecast from the days of Knight Rider and BayWatch that you can't imagine him being anyone else. There is a lot of action and the pace of the movie is relentless, but the script is listless. Another downside is that there is so little chemistry between the lead actors and actresses you wished you'd had spent your time watching something better.