Gator

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• A Good Ole Boy with a Heart of Gold

   

  By pottedmeat (3 reviews) from London , 02 Nov 2006

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  Burt Reynolds is Gator McKlusky, a swamp dwelling good ole boy living a life of ease, running home made liquor and keeping two steps ahead of the Law. When the Feds finally catch him and threaten to take his daughter away, he agrees to turn snitch on his old criminal buddy Bama McCall (Jerry Reed). He quickly decides that McCall's operation, with it's under-age prostitution rings and drug running, is worth fighting even if it means working with the law. He sets about, with the help of local female news reporter (and convenient love interest) Aggie Maybank (Lauren Hutton), bringing Bama down with all the anarchic panache of a Bayou Hillbilly. A little slow in parts and hugely predictable 'Gator' does surprisingly have a scene or two of some emotional depth. The few chase sequences in the film seem artifically tacked onto the rather lacklustre story and the ending is as smaltzy as they come. Rather see “Smokie and the Bandit” or “White Lighting” as better examples of earlier Reynolds work.

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