A Las Vegas casino magnate determined to find a new avenue for wagering sets up a race for money.
Donald P. Sinclair has placed six separate gold coins in different slot machines in his casino. The lucky six who find these coins discover an opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to own $2 million, locked up in a locker in New Mexico. These six contestants must now race one another to be the first to the cash. There are no rules in place and everything that could possibly happen does. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Sinclair's associates are placing their bets.—Film_Fan
A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. The first one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers, Duane and Blaine, who talks indecipherably because of a newly-pierced tongue. When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower. Their antics carry them into a hot-air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and invades monster truck competition. The second team is a reunited mother and daughter; the daughter is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land-speed-record attempt. A hated NFL referee is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball lookalikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler's personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veterans convention. A narcoleptic Italian gets a ride with an ambulance driver who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck's window and the two must recover it from a playful dog. The final race member is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but rethinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boyfriend's house and starts an attack on him when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girlfriend; an air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese's humorless attorney.—John Sacksteder <[email protected]>
Donald Sinclair owns the biggest, snazziest, flashiest, high-rolling-est casino in Las Vegas, and to entertain some of his wealthiest patrons, he's staged the most original high-stakes game that Sin City has ever seen. The contestants? Six teams. The jackpot? Two million dollars stuffed in a locker hundreds of miles away. The odds of winning? One in six. The rules? Well there's only one--get there first. What the racers don't know is that the tycoon and his rich buddies are betting on the outcome and are tracking every move the teams make. It's only a matter of time before they figure out who really stands to win the most before switching course to look for a different kind of pay-off.—Sujit R. Varma
A betting-obsessed casino mogul and his group of just-as-bad billionaire associates set up a new kind of gamble in a race for $2 million hidden away in a locker. They enlist the aid of eight people who happen to be residing in his casino at once. A clean-cut lawyer, a disgraced NFL referee, two inept brothers, a reunited mother and daughter, a narcoleptic Italian immigrant, and a desperate father embark on a series of misadventures to obtain the money, no matter what it takes.—MonkeyKingMA
Donald Sinclair, the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casino's slot machines, and the winners of them are gathered together and told that $2 million in cash is hidden in a bag in a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico. They are told they must compete in a no-holds-barred race to get there first and claim the money. Each winner is given a key that will open the locker and they are sent on their way. What they do not know is that Sinclair's wealthy patrons are placing bets on who will win the race. Among the racers are scheming twins Duane and Blaine Cody, businesswoman Merrill Jennings and her estranged mother Vera, disgraced football referee Owen Templeton (Cuba Gooding Jr), the Pear family led by opportunistic father Randy, eccentric Italian tourist Enrico Pollini (Rowan Atkinson), and no-nonsense attorney Nick Schaffer.
Duane and Blaine destroy an airport radar with their pickup truck, before deciding to split up to double their chances of winning by creating a replica key. However, a locksmith overhears their plan and makes off with the key. The brothers chase the locksmith who tries to escape in a hot air balloon, only for the brothers to steal back the key and leave the locksmith dangling from the balloon with a cow for company. The brothers later steal a monster truck after being distracted by a woman with numerous piercings.
Merrill and Vera lose their car thanks to a crazed squirrel owner, forcing them to steal a rocket car which races across the desert until it runs out of fuel, the women dizzily stumbling onto a bus full of mental patients which drives through Silver CityOwen is left stranded in the desert by a vengeful cab driver, but he comes across a coach filled with women going to an I Love Lucy convention and disguises himself as the driver. Numerous shenanigans happen on the coach until it crashes thanks to the hot air balloon. Owen breaks down, reveals he is not a coach driver and is forced to flee from the women. The Pear Family visit a museum dedicated to Nazi Klaus Barbie, but after the Codys cut their car engine, they steal Adolf Hitler's Mercedez-Bens car. Randy accidentally insults a biker gang, who attack the car, causing the Pears to crash into a meeting for World War II veterans with Randy's injuries causing him to sound like Hitler. Randy later drugs his family and loads them onto a truck to reach Silver City.
Nick at first refuses to participate until he meets helicopter pilot Tracy Faucet who offers him a lift to Silver City. On the way, they pass over Tracy's boyfriend's house but find he is with his ex-girlfriend, enraging Stacey to the point that she chases him in the helicopter until it runs out of fuel, causing her and Nick to steal her boyfriend's truck. Enrico, who is narcoleptic, falls asleep at the start of the race but awakens hours later and receives a lift from ambulance driver Zack Mallozzi, who is delivering a heart to El Paso. The heart gets lose in the van, and Enrico accidentally throws it out the window. Zack considers removing Enrico's heart to replace the first, but Enrico flees onto a passing train, only for Zack to restart the first heart by touching an electric fence.
All the racers reunite in Silver City, but Enrico arrives at the train station first only to fall asleep as he reaches the locker. Sinclar's assistant Mr. Grisham and call-girl Vicky steal the money bag, but lose it when the locksmith ties it to the balloon, only for the three to crash their car. The racers follow the balloon until it lands at a charity concert hosted by Smash Mouth. All the racers are persuaded to give the money to charity, Nick forcing Sinclair and his fellow gamblers to pay double the prize money.
