Chasers

For a while, Dennis Hopper was the comeback kid. After grandly blowing up his life and career in the 1970s, he emerged as a wildly forceful actor in Blue Velvet and clearly demonstrated with Colors that he could direct a commercial film. He was looking good and cooking hot.

But that was then, this is now. With Chasers, Hopper is stuck with a comedy-drama so limp and ill-conceived that even the oddball characters he directs in the movie barely breath a flutter of life into this D.O.A. production.

Tom Berenger (Major League II) plays an old Navy salt stuck on Shore Patrol duty with an enlisted yuppie (William McNamara). They're assigned to escort a female prisoner (Erika Eleniak of Under Seige) to the brig, but along the way they end up taking a tour of tacky Southern tourist spots.

Gary Busey, Dean Stockwell, Fredric Forrest, Marilu Henner and Crispin Glover make brief appearances to no great effect. Only Hopper himself – as a lecherous salesman named Doggie – has any fun in his movie. No wonder. His character is just passing through – everyone else is stuck in this picture.