TIMERIDER (1983) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: William Dear
Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote,
Ed Lauter, Tracey Walter, Richard Masur,
L.Q. Jones, Chris Mulkey, Bruce Gordon
Fred Ward plays the title role, a motorcycle racer named Lyle Swann, who gets zapped back in time to the Wild West, where he doesn't exactly blend in. In fact, to the well-armed inhabitants of the 19th-century frontier, he looks like a man from Mars. Good thing for him they're such lousy shots. Nothing that happens in this makes much sense. It just kind of goes its own way, blurring any imagined distinction between weird and ridiculous, with a cast that may or may not be winging it while flashing a lot of primitive dental work. Watching it while under the influence of something might not help, but it couldn't possibly hurt.
