Hooper

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Max W Hooper masterfully showcases the world of stunt performers with its lighthearted and brisk individualism; even though it premiered about 50 years ago. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/21/25 Full Review Peter G A terrifically fun movie with Burt and a host of his friends. Fantastic cast! Great characters, some amazing real stunts, no CGI or special effects. Just real people in real machines doing very dangerous things! Good old fun and humor from an era where people weren't easily offended by trivial things, and just had fun, fun, fun! It comes through in the movie. Enjoy!! (Pete G.) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/01/25 Full Review Bryan B One of my favorite 70's Burt movies. Lots of fun, jokes & stunts. Impossible not to like the movie with always likable Burt. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/17/23 Full Review Audience Member The creators of Smokey and the Bandit return with the late Burt Reynolds and Sally Field Reynolds is Hooper, the most successful stuntman in Hollywood He risks life and limb doing what he does The bigger the stunt the bigger the pay But he's facing new competition from a younger more experienced player named Ski using more advanced technological-oriented stunt methods Gwen his girlfriend is also concerned for Hooper's well-being taking pills and worrying about how much longer he can take the physical abuse on set Can he pull off one last stunt involving a rocket engine or face being crippled possibly death? Quite the film that has so much energy and Reynolds is having so much fun There will always be a new wave of stuntmen whom are younger, stronger relying on machines The thrill, danger and physical toll on stuntmen is present throughout even directors can be viewed as megalomaniacs clashing with actors And yes the stunts in the movie itself are impressive well worth the viewing between car crashes and explosions It could dig deeper into its Hollywood subject but cleverly mocks the idea of everything being fake on film One of Reynolds' more likable pictures Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/14/23 Full Review mike g Most people have no idea Smokey and the Bandit was the 2nd highest grosding film of 1977 (only to be beat by a dysfunctional family in a galaxy far, far away). Burt was the biggest star in the world for the rest of the 70s and very early 80s. His good friend and stuntman Hal Needham fell on tough financial times and lived at Burts home. He wrote Hooper and Burt made sure it was turned into a movie. I saw it first in the cinema as a kid and then a few times later as an adult. It's vintage Burt. From the wise cracks, to the deadpan 'breaking the fourth wall' looks to the camera, to the hotness that he and Sally Field displayed on screen. The ending sequence of stunts still astonish today's most jaded CGI'd audience. It's a lot of fun and represents a wonderful time when movies were a blast. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Very cool and comical movie about the life of a stunt-man. Not a whole lot of substance to the plot here, but Burt Reynolds was a bad-ass once again, and I thought Sally Field was really hot and was a great leading lady, just as she was in the Smokey and the Bandit movies Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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