I remember seeing this movie as a kid and back then I liked it fine. All I recall from the first viewing was Stallone really struggling in one of the arm wrestling matches. I caught it on TV again recently and couldn't recognize it. There was an exchange between Stallone and his son about driving a truck that was pretty interesting. In the story it worked to bond the estranged-genius son with his father but watching it is seemed like Stallone was trying to prove himself to people. As I was watching the beginning I kept thinking to myself 'Isn't this the arm wrestling movie?'. Sure enough arm wrestling was thrown in, in a contrived way and that basically took the movie off into another direction and tried to balance the father son aspect. Watching this movie now was almost unbearable.
Review of Over the Top
