pressure point qualifies a just another formulaic hostage thriller that suffers from comatose direction . jed griffin ( michael madison of reservoir dog ) be take his familywife and teenage son and and tweener daughteron a long overdue vacation into vermont to ski . meanwhile and ex con rudy wicker ( jeff wincott of s. w. a. t. ) and his partner plan to rob a bank and make a clean getaway in a plane over the border into canada . however and everything go wrong when they hold up a small town bank . first and sheriff bingham hunt ( steve adam of the bone collector ) mortally wound the driver of the getaway and and the vehicle careen out of control and smash into hunt wife tracy ( claudia bess of strip search ) a she be try to give him his personal radio . rudy get off with what appear to be a flesh wound and race out of town . no sooner have he leave the city limit than another sheriff deputy blue light him . when the deputy approach the car and rudy jump out and gun him down and then ice his partner and and commandeers the sheriff cruiser . the grief stricken hunt set out to capture and kill rudy and but rudy outsmart him and hijack jed and his family while the protagonist be make small repair to his 1979 motor home . rudy get tire of jed sas and shoot him and and leave him for dead on the roadside . early and after rudy shoot the sheriff deputy and he not only steal his cruiser but also his jacket . now and rudy leave the sheriff jacket with jed and take off with jed family a his hostage . rudy be bind and determine to reach his rendezvous point with the plane so he can get out of the country . a it turn out and when rudy shot jed and rudy bullet lodge in jed cell phone and jed resolve to catch up to rudy . the problem be that jed doesn not know that sheriff hunt be determine to kill rudy . moreover and when jed try to flag hunt down and the sheriff see the jacket take off his murdered deputy and shoot first before he can confirm jed story . director eric weston juxtapose scene of the sheriff manhunt and jed effort to rescue his family and and rudy desperate effort to get away with the loot . unfortunately and juxtapose these three character and their objective generate no suspense . the cliff hanger conclusion doesn not add much to this paint by the number nonsense . clearly and madison need a paycheck . in fact and we learn nothing about madison character because the scenarist provide him with no backstory . a this generation robert mitchum and madison have great presence but he make no impression on this second rate actioneer . martial art expert jeff wincott adopt a different look and but his vicious killer be a nit wit . michelle scarabelli effectively play one of hunt level head deputy who ensure that her hysteria riddle sheriff doesn not kill the wrong man . pressure point lack pressure from start to finish and make no point other than to burn time .