Driven by Craig R. Baxley.

Craig R. Baxley did a long credit of stunts in films, among of done as a second unit director he has The Long Riders and Predator, directed brilliant flicks Action Jackson, Dark Angel, Stone Cold and Sniper 2 and he wrote a bland book about all that. 

Baxley didn’t invite, as usually many famous people, a ghostwriter for giving quality to memoirs. He did alone without capacity to writing. It was his choice. I read books of people without skills, talent and experience and had like, which had in told. Baxley’s book was impossible for mine sympathy. His describing is everydayness of office or factory worker where with job happens usual things as marriage, kids and Florida, a popular thing for American. 

NB. I don’t want to offence anybody who goes in Florida (YOU’RE ALL MAD!), but I have disgust and shiver about everything of quiet grey family lifestyle. 

Baxley calls a known name with whom usually has immaterial contact. He only mentions famous people and rarely tells Hollywood stories, many of them immaterial too. His stuntman’s experience is reading of his portfolio on IMDB. He lists films in which he participated and non-frequent devotes attention on empty details about committed stunt. Mentioned movie is listing of performed in it actors and their famous movies. He gives long about dishes where he and his wife Valerie had in this <an admirable word> restaurant. Baxley to called names (and usually unknown from film crew.) adds uniform titles “the greatest person I ever had to work”.
I would like to hear other witnesses about Baxley’s describing of scene of Sonny Corleone death in The Godfather, acclaim of president of Columbia Pictures for Sniper 2, Joel Silver’s praise on Predator, authorship of phrases “Stick around” and “And you will go in pieces, asshole” and did Arnie and Dolph ask the second unit director. I didn’t find else that Craig Baxley had offer in screenplays of future Die Hard and Point Break.
Did he tell all? Baxley didn’t write about box-office failures of Dark Angel and Stone Cold and admits that it was a personal initiative to direct for TV after that. This part of directing of cheap in everything movies and writes each awards in the end of each chapter had intentions to put on shelf the book. I was exhausted. 

Maybe Baxley didn’t assign someone’s else as he writes on other stuntmen. I know that he was the director of magnificent action films, which impress me in creativity. Ferrari does a breakthrough and drives on stairways of mansion, crazy sequence in Arkansas State Capitol and final walking of Brian Bosworth. 

P.S. I mostly found and I don’t like in hardcover books published in last years that they use for cover an additional paper with picture wraps a hollow book. It has Driven in which, fortunately, a high quality paper while in many other bought books I see cheapness in yellow shade and hard on touch.