Customer Reviews
A US road movie that helped popularise CB radio in the UK - By: LXIX, 29 Oct 2008 
Convoy is a tale of three truckers who defy a corrupt backwater sheriff & end up becoming a national cause celebre. On the run from the authorities, they cross several states &in doing so gather huge support - eventually leading to a horizon full of trucksin their wake.
The film is watchable & fun at times. It wouldn't win any awards, but it did have a long-lasting social appeal as it played a partin popularising CB radioin the UK (thus usheringin the era of silver rods on every second council house across the land).
The film is peppered with CB jargon. It also has an all star soundtrack - such as Kenny Rogers, Crystal Gayle, Billie Jo Spears, Merle Haggard & Glen Campbell (however,in practice, the music is actually low key throughout much of the movie).
Overall, an entertaining 104 minutes. Now where did I leave that Yorkie bar...?
... Breaker out
The lamest Peckinpah in history. - By: Mr. P. B. Koeb, 21 Feb 2008 
(And to think that i am only reviewing this one so as to get the average down!) Couldn't agree more with Trevor Willsmer's comments about this being Peckinpah's worst movie. You normally expect a great deal more from any "Sam Peckinpah" film. This one is a terrible disappointment, although it seems to have given a lot of pleasure to the other reviewers. Personally, i would buy just about ANY other SP film than this one. The plot is threadbare thin, & i don't know what SP sawin Kris Kristofferson as an actor. (Guess he was okayin "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid", mind.) Avoid this one, unless you're a Peckinpah completist or have time & money to burn.
Just a sub-zero cool film - By: C. J. Cottrill, 24 Dec 2007 
This is not the film for girls who like the colour pink...but if ur a petrol head who likes huge trucks & wikid fight scenesin a car chase film this is the one for you, this is a genuinely entertaining film from start to finish with some hilarious scenes!! Bargain price!!
Peckinpah muscles in on Burt Reynolds' turf - By: Trevor Willsmer, 14 Dec 2007 Somewhat surprisingly, the watchable but completely forgettable Convoy was the biggest hit of Sam Peckinpah's career, though by all accounts Peckinpah was so stoned on drugs & booze throughout the shoot that he directed little of it, with assistants & James Coburn fillingin on the many occasions he couldn't get up the enthusiasm to leave his trailer. It's the kind of film that makes Smokey & the Bandit 3 look substantial & is pretty much a shoo-in as Peckinpah's worst film. There is one good almost balletic sequence of police cars running off dusty backroads set to the accompaniment of a semi-classical version of the C.W. McCall country-and-western song (originally written as a jingle) that provided what little inspiration there was for the film & some good support from Madge Sinclair's Widow Woman. But you can't help feeling that it's straining for significance a bit at times to hide the thinness of it all - truckers are the last of the real cowboys, just tryin' to live free without rules or reasons, don'tcha know - & that it would have been a whole lot more fun with Burt Reynolds & Jackie Gleasonin the Kris Kristofferson & Ernest Borgnine roles. On the plus side at least the action scenes are better handled thanin The Killer Elite, although even here some of the signature slow-motion here seems almost accidental, with some scenes fuzzily step-printedin post-production to slow them down (presumably because the few big stunts happened too fast to register onscreen) sticking out like a stylistic sore thumb amid the clarity of the much more effective sequences shotin genuine in-camera slow motion.
A word of warning on the DVD too - the English-language territory releases all omit the three-minute sequence of the governor's aide interviewing the truckers which contains Peckinpah's cameo as one of the camera crew. The German DVD is the uncut version.
My film - By: Mr. D. C. Fletcher, 19 Nov 2007 I watched this everyday when I was little. That is a not a figure of speech. I mean every day. With trucks lind up on the floor copying the film. Awesome. 10-4 good buddy. We have a bearin the air. Trucks & guns. All films should have them.
