Backtrack
by Smithee, Alan
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Actor: Carl David Burks, Clifford Bartholomew, John Apicella, Julie Adams, Kevin BourlandDirector: Smithee, Alan
Brand: BACKTRACK (DVD MOVIE)
Primary Contributor: Foster, Jodie
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Backtrack
Movie Review: Well acted but flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
Backtrack was directed by Dennis Hopper, who also stars. The movie was then recut and Hopper wanted to take his name off it. He later made a director's cut that runs at 116 minutes instead of the approximately 98 minutes.
Jodie Foster plays an artist who happens to witness a mob killing. She manages to escape but the mob fins out where she lives and kills no her but, by accident, her boyfriend (Charlie Sheen). She is offered to be taken into a witness protection program but instead goes into hiding on her own. Hopper plays the hitman that is hired to kill her. But he likes her and offers her her life in return for her company and obedience. Afer a while she starts to actually like the man. And here's the movie's main flaw. The relationship between Hopper and Foster develop from hostile to friendly much too quickly to feel realistic. I haven't seen the director's cut but maybe the character development feels more believable in that version. On the plus side, it's well acted. The cast also includes an uncredited Joe Pesci and one of the last performances of Vincent Price. Despite the flaw mentioned the movie is still watchabl and a decent way to spend an hour and a half, although I wouldn't spend too much money on it.
Summary of Backtrack
BACKTRACK (DVD MOVIE)Dennis Hopper directed, as well as acted in, this moody mess from 1989, which was barely seen for a couple of years until getting a boost from the rising fame of its star, Jodie Foster. Looking startlingly young, Foster plays a conceptual artist who witnesses a mob hit, thus becoming a target herself for an assassin (Hopper). But instead of killing her, Hopper's killer falls in love, demonstrating his passion by stalking her at a distance, "owning" her every move and keeping her in exile from ordinary life. The resulting isolation squeezes Foster's creative spirit, forcing her to confront doubt and self-loathing--everything that artists suffer as the price for self-expression. Deeply self-conscious, with a calculatingly meditative tone that becomes inseparable from Hopper's tenacious voyeurism (the film's most obvious commercial hook--Foster's nude scene--is almost prayerful in its pathology), Backtrack wants to be a confessional fable about the artistic process. Instead, it's a muted yet rambling confession about the sinner inside a filmmaker, which would be great if Backtrack were, say, Rear Window. But it surely isn't. --Tom Keogh
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